YOUTHS' DAY OUT

Here is the youth work crew with house in the back ground. The third person from the right is the old the old lady. She is 78 yrs and strong. The youth are so happy that they made it here and completed the house. When I asked the old lady what she think now that she has a mud and wattle wall she said "I feel very happy now because I am going to have warm night and I give all glory to God''. We are happy for you too. God bless you and your family.
That space you see as an completed is were she is going to put the window when she gets the money.

It lunch time and the work crew here is enjoying the meal. I missed the picture because I had gone to collect water but all in all I had my share of the meal. Brother Dick said if I may quote him here that" these girls are great cooks" that was very motivational to the girls, thanks a lot. We need more guys like you Dick.

The food girls were very helpful for we felt very energized after eating their greatly prepared meal. Rebecca in a blue shirt , Ket in the light green skirt together with Jackie in the white we directly in charge of food. They made steamed bananas with P nut soup and lots of green vegetables for us. It was so nice.

Boys and girls at work. We thank God for this youth team. They were an inspiration to a youth group of one of the neighbouring church who came by and thanked us. They said the would also help some one with a need that like that. Their pastor came and thanked us for being Christ like. I had an opportunity to share Christ with some village people who wanted to know who we were because of what we were doing.

Sister Jamilah is a former Moslem but here she was acting the senior builder on the wall. We are so proud of girl. She told me she was not feeling well in the morning before we set off. We had some one with pain killers in the crew so she felt good after taking some so she worked some more. Thanks Jamilar

Here is the 4yr Mr Dad carrying some of the wattle, he was fun having around because he encouraged lots of guys to work harder. Thanks a lot dad for you are an encourager.

We kept asking him to rest but the guy could not, he at one time told Sister Rebecca that he is doing what his sister who was absent would if she was present.

Dry banana leaves wall demolition seemed fun for these two because they were already to remove them. At one time the bigger part of the team joined and it was funner for all.

The guys starting to mix water with dirt with the water crew in the background.

The dry banana leaves house before demolition and Dad in the back ground. He is a boy although he is puting on a girls dress. His grandma told us that his only pair of shorts and shirt were wet so he asked his sister to help so he could have something to put on.

Here are some of the youth preparing to leave for work from our church building.

Normally keeping time here is not taken very serious but today I was amazed at how our church youth team kept time for our 7:30am appointment at church.

Yesterday at church all the youth agreed to spend their Easter Monday helping a widow member of the church who lives about 3 miles from Church so the all were at church for take off at 7:30 am. I am the one who delayed them because I could not find a truck for them on time; I called them at 7:45 and apologized for the delay. I showed up at church at 8:00 am with a truck and we took off. We had not informed the old lady that were going to work her house walls so when she saw at jumping off the truck she was surprised.

We got our hoes, shovels and started our work while others went to collect water in the valley about half a mile away, others went to people’s home to buy food, others went for canes of sugar while others started the dry banana leaves demolition which of course was the funniest part to do .

We made the mud and wattle and other guys pressed in the mud in the walls. At 2:00pm we had lunch wile for desert we feasted on the canes of sugar. This was the most funniest and fruitful Easter Monday most of the youth have ever had.

One of the little kids of the old lady’s family was more active than some youth, he carried lots of wattle for the house that he challenged most of the teens; he is about 4 yrs old. They call him dad in the house and to me he really acted like a dad would in the house. He was fun having around and I am sure he made some guys want to work some more that they wanted because whenever they would want to rest, dad would continue working restlessly. Thanks to you dad.

Please enjoy the pictures.

THE GREATEST SACRIFICE

Today's service was well attended with over 250 people.

Here are our church youth leading the worship service. Thank you so much father for these boys and girls


Wow, wow, today was such a beautiful day here in the church. First of all we had some light rain drops in the town although I managed to get to church before I got wet. The rain drops were very energizing. Thank God

Many people joined us at church today and the singing was great, the elderly and the young presented songs and we all sung together as a congregation. Brother Vincent gave today’s sermon. The theme for today was “The greatest sacrifice’ and I tell it was very moving. After the sermon 7 people gave their lives to Jesus.

Brother Dick reminded the Christians to always look up to Christ for he overcame death therefore he has got the power to help them overcome all their needs and worries.

While I used this Sunday to remind them to put their trust in the lord for he is king of all and in all things both here on earth and in the heavens.

The youth had a special presentation today, they lead the worship part of the service and they all presented a skit to the congregation after service and after their skit I asked them how they wanted to spend their Easter holiday? They all in unison answered” by helping someone in our community who has a need” I asked them if they knew someone in particular that need help and they said they wanted me to tell them someone I think needs help. There and then I remembered a member of our congregation who lives about 2 miles away and who lives in a house whose walls are made of dry banana leaves, I asked them if they would not mind spending their Easter Monday digging up the ground, collecting water about a mile away, mixing it together and making a mud wall for this old lady? They said they would be glad spending their day helping than spending it visiting friends. In inner me, I was moved by this gesture. One young girl said she is doing this for the glorification and honor of God. That statement moved me more.

I thank God for he has given us young men and women who love and care about others. This makes me happy because this is one of the things taught to me and Brother Dick by our mentor so we feel good when we meet others who love helping others.

We encourage our members to think of others before themselves because we believe it reflects Christ in them.

Tomorrow in the morning at 7:30am a group of 36 youth are going to get on a pick-up truck and head to this old lady’s home and work her house walls till about 6:00pm and then head back to church from where we shall head to our homes and get ready for the Tuesday school.
I am going to post here some of this house pictures before and after the guys work it. By the way the old lady told me when I visited her two weeks ago that a Good Samaritan constructed this house for her and he told her to find money to put in mud walls but she couldn’t because she doesn’t have a job and yet it would cost her tones of money to do it. She has got two very sweet kids who were left by her late relative, she takes care of them although she also needs someone to take of care. She has got a golden heart.

A dry banana leaves wall house would be a very cold house in the night for anybody in this Western Uganda weather so when we finally put a mud wall she and the kids will have some warm nights.

God is continually being to us. He has given us his son, live and great friend and things in the world. I can’t imagine how the world would have been without Christian men and women.

This reminds me, we have a 12 yr old boy in the church who during our last Friday evening bible study sung a song. In the song he said Jesus you are the sweetest thing God has ever given us, he went on to say Jesus is the most wonderful name in universse. Yes lord Jesus you are sweet and we thank you for coming to save us. We bless your name lord.

God bless you friends, brothers and sisters

SEMINARS AND MIDWEEK SERVICE

God has given us such a great week, during our midweek service we had 23 people attending. We read the book of Philemon led by brother Tadeo and I. For a long time now, one of our brothers we has been praying for and teaching about Christ gave his life to Jesus. Brother Sam had never been to church for the last 25 years but he started fellowshipping with us in December and ever since then he attends Sunday services and all our midweek and Friday night fellowships so when he accepted and declared Jesus as personal lord and savior we rejoiced. Please pray for Sam and his family.

Last Friday evening bible class was so good and full of humor, brother Bukenya shared with us from the book of Job, he encouraged us to be strong even when we feel weakened in our daily lives. He gave examples of how even in times of trouble Job remained an obedient and loyal servant to God. We had 25 in attendance.

After the bible study we held a leadership meeting on the way forward for the church and it went really well. We shared some of our dreams and we encouraged one another. We talked about the need for seminars for the leaders of the different church ministries that we as a church are carrying on right now.

Would you like to help conduct a leadership and or a church seminar for days or a week? Please let us know, we will be very glad because we need seminars that can help us grow in certain areas. We are looking for people with seminar conducting experiences.

One thing I know is that most Ugandan church leaders love seminars and if ever we get some one or a group of people volunteering to teach, many will attend it including members of other congregations so please let us know by sending me an e-mail.. We encourage men and women from all over the world as long as you feel that the lord is leading and calling you in that direction to serve him by conducting Christian seminars.

May God bless you as you seek to serve him in many parts of the world.

THE LOVE OF CHRIST

Our Church younger Stars singing to the lord's family, it was so beautiful

Here are the youth entertaining the congregation to the African traditional dance

Brother Scott and his new found pal enjoy the singing and the skits.

Godwin entertaining the congregation to the African Royal dance, thanks a lot brother

Time to enjoy lunch, these guys seem to say.

I bring greetings from the church here in Fort Portal, our church has been blessed to have a visitor from the States. It was great having you here Brother Scott. Last Sunday Brother Scott shared about the LOVE OF CHRIST; he encouraged Christians to love one another so that our lives can reflect Christ in us and for the good and development of our community. It was such a moving sermon with lots of people nodding their heads in agreement with him.

During service brother Scott and I baptized 22 people into the Lord’s family. I thank the lord for enabling us do his will last week. The work of the lord here is very, very promising. What is taking place here right now is a gospel explosion and I thank you for being part of it with prayers and support you offer to the lord’s ministry.

We had over 300 people in attendance last Sunday. After baptisms we had lunch, African poems and traditional dances all in honor of our friend and brother Scott. What we did is traditionally done for only friends.

During his time here, Scott got to meet lots of our friend up in government offices both here in Fort Portal and in Kampala. We had very encouraging meetings with these men including a government minister. Many came to church to listen to the gospel that we ran out of space in the building that we decided to hold all the other events outside the church building.

You are an encouragement brother, you brought a lot of healing, love and encouragement with you for us and we thank you for we received it all. God bless you

We look forward to more friends and brothers of our coming to visit us.

Enjoy some of our photos here please.