Living Rays News Letter Kampala. 6/7/2011

Welcome, to yet another Issue of the Living Rays News Publication of the Kampala Church of Christ Ministries. We bring to you Testimonies of what God continues to do amongst His people in Kampala and the surrounding areas as we all surrender our lives to Him and for His Purposes.

youth that went for camp saaka

LST Team 2011 with some KCC leaders

From 3^rd to 7^th May 2011, the Wakiso Youth group that has been meeting for Bible Study over the last several Months got the privilege to go to Camp Saaka in Fort Portal. The Camp is an annual event that brings together youths from all over Uganda. Over fifteen youths from Wakiso and a few from Kampala traveled to Fort Portal for one week of Spiritual nourishment. The group was able to meet other youths from the other churches of Christ in Uganda.  Several of the youths came back from the camp on fire for Jesus Christ. Most of these youths are among those that got baptized into Christ in Wakiso on 6/5/2011. Fort Portal Church of Christ organizes the Camp annually.

Amanda making a point to her student

Anna with her student

Shanna in action

Alex in a class session

The Kampala Ministry has been tremendously helped on its Evangelistic mission by annually hosting the Let’s Start Talking (LST) Projects. The LST Projects are designed to help people improve on their conversational skills in English. LST projects use the Bible as a Teaching tool. 

Cade teaching his student

The last couple of weeks, we have been blessed by a team of five interns from Arkansas. They flew into the country on 5/17/2011. Cade, Alex, Anna, Amanda and Shanna continue to be such a blessing not only to their readers but also to the church community in Kampala. We were able to register over seventy readers before the team arrived. However, the numbers started dwindling as some of those that registered couldn’t read or even communicate in English. The Project works best and greatly for those that can be able to at least listen and speak English. Realistically though, the Project has been able to impact forty-three People that have been consistent since the program started. A few more people keep coming for registration. The blessing and beauty of LST Projects is that participants in the project have always been introduced to the church and taught the word of God. We have had several accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior over the years as a result.  LST Team 2011 is bound for the United States on 6/26/2011.

  We recently got a surprise visit by Mr. Arun. Mr. Arun is an Indian gentleman whose family once stayed at the current premises that the church owns. He grew up in the house built in the 1930’s that is now the church building. He showed us pictures of what the building once looked like. We gave him a tour of the building. It was quite emotional for him as we took him around the building. It is now over forty years since he was last in Uganda. His family left for the United Kingdom at the climax of the notorious regime of Amin that persecuted Indians in the 70’s. Mr. Arun was born with polio, a rare disease that affects bones especially in children.  For the last couple of years, Arun has devoted his life in caring and supporting kids that are infected with the disease. He is a founder of a UK based NGO “Polio Children” that helps thousands of children in India, Tanzania and now Tororo in North Eastern Uganda. He was glad that his childhood home is now a church. We are glad that a kid that grew up in the church building, turned out to help humanity in helping thousands of kids infected with polio.

Mr Arun used to play cricket
in a section of the building which now the chapel area

           

 6/5/2011 was a special day in the life of Kampala Church of Christ (KCC). For over a year now, we have been involved in the community of Wakiso. We started off by starting a goat project in that community. Thirty goats were given to the poor in November last year. Later, the KCC Women of Hope Project empowered the women of the community by teaching them self-help skills in handcrafts making. As a result an adult Bible Study Fellowship was born. A Youth Bible Study Fellowship followed in the event of having started The Reach 4 Life Bible Study Project series for the youth in Wakiso. Prior to all this, God opened for us yet another door in partnering with the Evangelical Fellowship of Uganda (EFU) in donating gifts to children of different ages in the same community in November last year as well. Recently, a Welcome To The Family Class (WTFC) was taught in Wakiso. The WTFC formally introduced those attending the Bible Study Fellowships to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Church.  All these intertwined events proved to be a journey for the twelve souls that were baptized and to personally meet with Christ on the afternoon of 6/5/2011. We praise God for having started it all and for making us witnesses to the power of His word in the Outreach, Expansion and Transformation of the community of Wakiso. What started as a project for goats to help out the poor, God turned it out into a message that was powerfully used to preach Christ and turn souls to Christ. On this day, after the baptisms, the newly baptized believers were served Holy Communion. It was such a great day of the Lord. We thank the Christian Relief Fund (CRF) that entrusted us with money to buy goats to help the communities of Wakiso and more recently in Kasangati where sixteen goats were given out on 5/6/2011. 

The journey of new church plants in these communities has indeed taken root and we are passionate
about being a part of what God is doing in the lives of people in these communities.

We thank you all for your continued prayers, encouragement, support and thoughts. May God bless and

keep you always.

Prayer Requests

1.     Thanksgiving for the souls that received Christ as their personal savior in wakiso.

2.     Pray for the health of the Kampala LST Team 2011 and their work in Kampala

3.     Pray for the continued flow of God’s providence with the KCC Van fundraising effort.

4.     Pray for the leadership of Kampala, the congregation and ministries of the church.

5.     Pray for comfort and providence for the family of Phillip Shero over the loss of their house that was gutted down by fire

In Christ Jesus

Isaac Sanyu