One of our strategies as a ministry is to partner with the Local Churches to reach out to the most vulnerable people in the community. Through the local church; we ensure that people in unreached communities have access to safe and clean water, access to healthcare and that orphans and vulnerable children get an opportunity of going to school.
In November 2013 God led us to this Village for a medical mission and our focus was mainly on malaria. We spent some time with a group of about 100 HIV/AIDS children and their parents, gave them food and multivitamins on top of praying with them.
We also spent time with the elderly people and also gave them reading glasses.This was the first gospel and it was during this very time that we realized the need for church in this community where witchcraft is too high with about 3 in every 10 families owning a shrine.
After God speaking to us about the need we trained a team of Rural Health Evangelists (RHE) from near by churches and these were moving from door to door sharing the gospel and sensitizing families on good health.
God used one of our RHE members to start a fellowship in his house since the new believers had no where to fellowship from because it was a very long distance to go to the nearby church and so they lacked discipleship to grow.
We stood with him in prayer as the fellowship was growing and as we trusted God for the land to plant the church.
The fellowship grew in number and the house could no longer accommodate all of them. On Sunday 24th May 2015 we launched our church and we had 20 members. It is the first church started by one of our RHE members. Pastor Tom Matovu is the church pastor under the Leadership and support of FoHA and the overseer of FoHA's programs in this community.
After our first church service on Sunday we prayed for the pastor and his wife and also for the church land where we are trusting God for a school, a medical center and a child development center. Our prayer is that you will join us in this work to reach out to this community with the Gospel.
This week clearing is still going on for a temporary structure but we are trusting God for a permanent structure.
Prayer Points
- Our needs currently are Chairs and a shelter. We serve a mighty God and we believe with him all things are possible. Pray For God's provision
- We have 3 sponsored children in this Village (Sylvia, Annet and Hassan). They have been part of the fellowship and they hold ministry responsibilities in the new church, pray for them and for their sponsors (Jim and Joy, William and Gene, Ron McCullough and Jennifer Johnson). Pray also for the children who are waiting for sponsors that God will open doors for them.
- Pray for our pastor Tom and his wife that God will guide them as they serve him in this community.
- Pray also that through this church, there will be total transformation in this community for the glory of our Lord Jesus.
- Pray for the RHE program and all the Rural Health Evangelists in the various Districts of Uganda and for God's provision for the RHE trainings.
We are grateful to God for your Love and support and may the good Lord bless you.