BENEVOLENCE SUNDAY
Other Christians helping Brother Charles to distribute the food last Sunday.
Part of our congregation last Sunday
Here is Brother Charles giving out the food right after our church Service. So much food was brought and given out to identified people in and outside the congregation.Dear our Brothers and Sisters in the lord, I bring greetings to you on behalf of the lord’s church here in Fort Portal. We thank you so much for your prayers your offer to the lord on behalf of His ministry here and all over the world.
Both the young peoples’ ( YET) and the grown up evangelizing ministries continue to be very active preaching the word of God in and around villages and many a giving their lives to Jesus. Last Sunday 7 people gave their lives to Jesus and one of them is an old man close to eighty years, he said he had never been to church in his entire life but after our outreach team visited and shared Christ with him and invited him to fellowship with us during our Midweek bible studies, he came to church for three consecutive Sundays and on his forth Sunday with us he gave his life to Jesus.
About three weeks ago our church leadership had a meeting and discussed so many things, it was really good. We have a four hour meeting exchanging ideas and sharing our dreams about the lord’s work. We talked about different ministries and also came up with some new ministries that we think are going to propel His work to greater heights. When Brother Ray and Randy where here, we had a men’s meeting and during that meeting that they facilitated we were blessed to learn quite a lot about different ministries and so during our leadership meeting we brought our ideas and every body was able to find a ministry in which he can best perform. It was very interesting indeed. Thank you so much our brother for advising us on how to get everybody involved in His work. During our leadership meeting five men were selected and appointed to the Planning and Development committee and they are already carrying out their work. Brother Charles is heading this committee assisted by Brother Dick.
One of the other issues discussed was how to encourage Brothers and Sisters from within the congregation to be of more help to one another and to the community outside the church. Most people here do not have paying jobs but the have some thing to eat because majority of them have pieces of land on which they live off of so the leadership took a decision to encourage the church to use what that they have to reach to the poor in and outside our church community, it was 100% agreed on by all of us that we should make every last Sunday of each months as a day to bring lots o food to give to the poor ones of our congregation and those outside. We termed every last Sunday of the month as The Benevolence Sunday. We shall be encouraging each one of the members to bring fresh food and this we started last Sunday. We said in order to encourage the entire congregation, the leaders should bring even more and so it was last Sunday. Every body brought something so share, many poor ones went home with smiles on their faces, we also took some to the poor ones in the villages that don’t pray with us. It was really good for God was glorified highly in all this. People brought bananas, Sugar canes, pumpkins fresh from their gardens, Guavas, lots of avocados, fresh vegetables, beans, P nuts, Cassava, sweet and Irish potatoes etc.
The attendance last Sunday was close to 400 hundred and in the kids school room was 78 according to Brother John who was in charge of the class last Sunday. We count the number of those present every Sunday so to know if there is either an increase or a decrease in number. This also helps us to carry out though planning for the church. Please continue to pray for as we reach out to the lost Satan also tries to fight us back BUT he will not win however much he tries for God is with us everyday.
Please also pray that the lord may provide some of our needs. The other prayer request is lifting us up in your prayers that may the lord let there be healing in our church because in last two weeks we have had 3 kids die of malaria and several others admitted in the hospital due to malaria. Even some leaders have been attacked by the same diseases. Brother Odomel’ daughter of 14 yrs also died last Thursday. This problem is not only in our church but also in may other churches and communities.
God bless you my Brothers and Sisters.
Bro Ronald
Both the young peoples’ ( YET) and the grown up evangelizing ministries continue to be very active preaching the word of God in and around villages and many a giving their lives to Jesus. Last Sunday 7 people gave their lives to Jesus and one of them is an old man close to eighty years, he said he had never been to church in his entire life but after our outreach team visited and shared Christ with him and invited him to fellowship with us during our Midweek bible studies, he came to church for three consecutive Sundays and on his forth Sunday with us he gave his life to Jesus.
About three weeks ago our church leadership had a meeting and discussed so many things, it was really good. We have a four hour meeting exchanging ideas and sharing our dreams about the lord’s work. We talked about different ministries and also came up with some new ministries that we think are going to propel His work to greater heights. When Brother Ray and Randy where here, we had a men’s meeting and during that meeting that they facilitated we were blessed to learn quite a lot about different ministries and so during our leadership meeting we brought our ideas and every body was able to find a ministry in which he can best perform. It was very interesting indeed. Thank you so much our brother for advising us on how to get everybody involved in His work. During our leadership meeting five men were selected and appointed to the Planning and Development committee and they are already carrying out their work. Brother Charles is heading this committee assisted by Brother Dick.
One of the other issues discussed was how to encourage Brothers and Sisters from within the congregation to be of more help to one another and to the community outside the church. Most people here do not have paying jobs but the have some thing to eat because majority of them have pieces of land on which they live off of so the leadership took a decision to encourage the church to use what that they have to reach to the poor in and outside our church community, it was 100% agreed on by all of us that we should make every last Sunday of each months as a day to bring lots o food to give to the poor ones of our congregation and those outside. We termed every last Sunday of the month as The Benevolence Sunday. We shall be encouraging each one of the members to bring fresh food and this we started last Sunday. We said in order to encourage the entire congregation, the leaders should bring even more and so it was last Sunday. Every body brought something so share, many poor ones went home with smiles on their faces, we also took some to the poor ones in the villages that don’t pray with us. It was really good for God was glorified highly in all this. People brought bananas, Sugar canes, pumpkins fresh from their gardens, Guavas, lots of avocados, fresh vegetables, beans, P nuts, Cassava, sweet and Irish potatoes etc.
The attendance last Sunday was close to 400 hundred and in the kids school room was 78 according to Brother John who was in charge of the class last Sunday. We count the number of those present every Sunday so to know if there is either an increase or a decrease in number. This also helps us to carry out though planning for the church. Please continue to pray for as we reach out to the lost Satan also tries to fight us back BUT he will not win however much he tries for God is with us everyday.
Please also pray that the lord may provide some of our needs. The other prayer request is lifting us up in your prayers that may the lord let there be healing in our church because in last two weeks we have had 3 kids die of malaria and several others admitted in the hospital due to malaria. Even some leaders have been attacked by the same diseases. Brother Odomel’ daughter of 14 yrs also died last Thursday. This problem is not only in our church but also in may other churches and communities.
God bless you my Brothers and Sisters.
Bro Ronald
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