Last week we had a Mission to Kyenjojo district. This is situated in western Uganda. We recently planted a church in this community and it had been the prayer of the people living in this community to have us visit them with a big team for a revival conference.
We were amazed at the hunger these people have for the word of
God, most of them travel walked for more than 20km to come to the church, others walked further than that. They were so glad we came.Only the pastor owns a bible plus a few others, but as we taught the word of God, they were very attentive and from the responses you could see that they had learnt all we were teaching them.
The people living in this community are basically peasants and very poor. But to our surprise, they had bought a piece of land from their had earned money and set up a simple house of worship, they were still raising money to put a roof on the church.
I was so moved by the dedicated and commitment these people have to God. The community has a lot of witchcraft and devil worshipers, but the few that has come to Jesus are determined to preach the gospel to the rest of the community.
By the time we left we had planted a church in another neighboring community.
These people need prayers and support especially to buy more land for the new church and complete their church building as well as build a house of worship for the new church.They also need Bibles. Bibles are very expensive for these people each Bibles costs around $10.
As we moved around in the community, i couldn't imagine that they have no facilities like schools, medical centers or clean water. Many children die of disease and women often die as they give birth. It is a terrible feeling to know what these people go through every day.
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couldn't help look at what the children go through, with no opportunity to go to school, the children are treated to hard labor of cultivating bushes for crop planting. Many young girls and boys get married and marry at an early age.Most of the children have never put on shoes and many have no clothes to put on.
I told my friends to start praying for this community so that God will provide funds to build for these people a medical center and a school in this community, so that these children are given an
opportunity to go to school and get medical attention. The medical center would help both children and adults especially women giving birth.Please pray for us and help us where possible to reach this community for Jesus.
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