Hundreds give their lives to Jesus on a Crusade!

"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news!" Isaiah 52:7

Yesterday, we returned with joy from one of the villages where we had been for the last four day preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Kakooma, one of the villages in Kabale, Uganda has a long history of drunkardness and alcoholism. Men spend their fortunes in bars from morning to evening. Women and children are not spared either. You would sense a stronghold of alcoholism as soon as you enter this village. After every one house is a bar with men sitting in circles taking the local brewed beer.
With this kind of life, many families were left in utter poverty and the children suffer most as they are denied their rights to go to school, have food, put on good clothes and have medical care.
At the start of this year, we felt the Lord leading us to preach the love of Christ to this village. When we came in on Thursday, we did not know what to expect, because sometimes the drunk people become hostile to preachers. But after much prayer, we felt the Lord was giving us a go ahead. We hired a public address system, hired a truck and went to this village that is almost 50km from town.
To our surprise, the crusade ground was filled with hundreds of people with in minutes. You could sense desperation on their faces, they needed a savior, they needed a deliverer! Thank God for the power of the word of God and the shed blood of Jesus that cleanses from all our sins. When we invited people to commit their lives to Jesus, hundreds of people came forward!
Within three days around 800 people had come to Christ, repented all their sins and decided to forsake evil ways like drinking alcohol, witchcraft and other evil practices.
After the crusade, we were faced with a challenge of disciple the new converts, since there was no church nearby. We therefore decided to plant a church for these people in this community. However, we will need to get them a place of worship and we pray that God will provide funds to buy a piece of land for these people and build for them a house of worship. Land here costs around $3000 and it will cost us about $7000 to build a simple church building.
We ask all our friends, to pray for us for God's provision and to pray for the people who got saved that they will stand strong in the Lord and grow in his grace.

OUR KIDS PASS EXAMS WITH GOOD GRADES!!

"The fear of the Lord, is the beginning of wisdom," Proverbs 9:10


Praise God our kids passed the Primary leaving examinations with good grades! We had 4 children in the Sponsorship program who sat examinations for Primary seven, which is the last grade before students go to High school.
When the results were released recently, we were all wondering how our children could have performed. Knowing that they all come from a very poor back ground and all missed school at the early stages because of lack of school fees, we had little hope that any of the four would pass with good grades. To our surprise, last week when we received the results, all of them had performed very well. There was a lot of excitement in our church and the entire community because of the good performance of our children.
When these children; Elijah Mugarura, Miria Niwamanya, Peace Turinawe and Fischer Ainebyoona, registered for our children sponsorship program, many thought they were wasting their time, basically because of their poor background but more so because of their age. In most cases, children of their age give up on education and resort to live a life of begging and stealing. Some end up being street children. We thank God that these children persisted, and with a lot of prayer and trusting God through his word, they made it to Primary seven and thank God they are now promoted to High school. The promises of God are true; as these boys and girls continued to grow in the fear of the Lord, God gave them wisdom to study their books and pass with good grades!
Our dream is to give such poor children education so that they are able to become godly leaders in our community. In our country a child cannot get a job without education. Educating children is best way to prepare a child for self sustainability.
Thank you all our partners for supporting us to take our children to school. We appreciate every gift and support given to educate children in our community. You have made a tremendous difference in our community, one child at a time!
Keep us in your prayers, hundreds of children remain without help to go to school. There are so many orphans in our village who lost their parents to AIDS and various other diseases. And other children come from very poor families that cannot afford to pay school fees. Many children are homeless and some go without food for days. We feel God has called us to minister to these hurting children.
We need the prayers and support of God's kind hearted people. Any gift can make an impact in the life of a child in need.
If you feel, you want to be part of what God is doing in our village, please write to us at:jbakashaba@gmail.com and we will give you all the information you need to help.
May God bless you.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

Happy New Year friends!
What a joy to have yet another opportunity this year to serve God's purposes!
I am sorry, i got very busy and i could not continue my trip story and adventures last year, but hopefully, i will continue my trip story later on.
I learnt a lot and met many new people and made lots of friends. And one of the miracles that the Lord performed for me was that i was able to raise support for most of the children staying in our orphanage. It is so important to us to see these children go to school and become godly leaders in future in our community and country. It is our joy to see these children grow up to become what God created them to be.
I appreciate all of you dear friends that support our children. Your gifts of love have made a tremendous difference in the lives of these children and in our community.
I came back well. This was my first time to travel that long, my family and church was missing me so much and i was missing them too. It was a joy for me to come back to Uganda and join my family and church.
We had a wonderful Christmas and a good end of the year 2009 and a wonderful start of 2010. With support from some friends, we were able to feed 100 children with a few widows from our community for lunch on Christmas day. Many families are so poor and cannot afford a good meal. We feel God has placed it upon our hearts to feed the poor children with a good Christmas lunch. Many young people were looking forward to this. Some children met me, on my arrival and said, "We thought you were not going to be with us for Christmas and we were wondering what we would do on Christmas day". When i asked them what they meant, they told me that they were already looking forward to take a soda (coke) and eat Beef and rice on Christmas day. To many children this is the only time in the year when they take a soda and eat beef and rice.
We had a good time. After lunch the children enjoyed fun sharing stories about the birth of Jesus plus singing special songs. It rained heavily on Christmas day but thank God we had rented tents so we were not bothered so much by rain.
We have had a good start of 2010 and we believe the Lord is going to lead us all the way to achieve great things for the his name's sake.
I am so grateful to all of you, dear friends that support us and our ministry to be able to do God's will. Thank you all of you that support our children. May God bless you.
Have a blessed year, 2010!!