Excerpts from New Peninsula Uganda Partnership Newsletter -- September 2012

THE UGANDAN PASTORS ARE COMING!

Pastor Aaron & family

Pastor Andrew & family

Grace, Judy & Pastor Vinnie

 


We welcome these three men of God to New Peninsula Church from October 8th till October 23rd.  They will be sharing in Ministry at Rosebud, Mt Martha and Mornington Park (Jigsaw).

Uganda Partnership Group invite you to be a part of this time in as many ways as you can so that you can be blessed and also be a blessing to others.

Vinnie has been in England for the past few weeks and so we decided not to ask him for any more news – we look forward to hearing from him in person!

Do you know the names of the Bethel’s Church plants? Who are their Pastors?

Vinnie has answered these questions for us.

Names of Churches and their Leaders:

1. Bethel Baptist Church -  Led by Munyosi Vincent and others.
2. Elshaddai Baptist Church - Led by Pastor Gordon Gidudu and assisted by David Wazemba who will take over when Gordon comes back to Bethel.
3. Emmanuel Baptist Church - Led by Pastor Aaron Masaba and assisted by Mr. Luke Mukholi. Luke is the Muslim convert who was attacked in the night by Muslims and relatives sometime back while Ian and Tash were still in Uganda. He has shown signs of great leadership.
4. Victory Baptist Church (Busamaga church which the NPC team helped to start while on the exposure trip to Uganda). Mr. Andrew goes there regularly to help it grow assisted by Pastor Robert Nangai. Pastor Nangai is not really a Bethel product. He has been a Baptist minister for some time. He likes the approach Bethel uses and the area we have targeted. He has been a secondary teacher but he is giving up that so he can lead the church.
5. Bethany Baptist Church. A New church which Bethel started after Victory. It is led by Pr. Brian Byamukama. Brian is one of the new Muslim converts who got saved the same time as Roseland. He was training to be a high Muslim leader before he became a Christian. That is the time they put me a jail. He is the emerging leader who walks a long distance several times a week to lead that church up in the mountains. Pray that he gets transport (a motorcycle) and income as he is really a poor boy whose family has thrown him out and he has not yet gone back.
6.  Wanale Baptist Church. This is a church Aaron, Luke and Emmanuel Church have started. It is on top of the Mountain, and it is growing. Aaron and Luke still lead it in turns. It is a long way away, and pray that Luke will get his own transport to continue going there.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (Uganda Visit)

Oct 13th -  Connection Day. Workshops and Lunch

Oct 14th -  Rosebud Services

Oct 20th - Gracious Café – relaxing evening of song, stories and food.

Oct 21st – Mt Martha Services


PRAYER AND PRAISE

• Thank the Lord for Vinnie’s time in England. Pray that he will now have time to be refreshed and prepare himself for his visit with us.
• Pray for Pastor Brian at Bethany Church. Ask for the provision of work and transport. Pray for his relationship with his family who have rejected him.
• Continue to pray for the Community / Medical Centre. Pray for the completion of the building and that all requirements for its use as a Medical Centre will be met so that this ministry can commence.
• Pray for each of the Pastors as named above.
• Give thanks for all the work that has been done in regards to the Visit. Pray that all details will be able to be finalised this week and the program completed.
• Remember Jamie and Julie as they head for home soon. Ask for safety in travel and anticipation for what God has in store for them in the coming days.
• Pray that the people of New Peninsula will embrace the coming Visit. Pray that many will attend the Services, Connection Day and Gracious Café. Ask God to pour out His Spirit on these meeting so that many people will be blessed and encouraged.
• Pray for Vinnie, Andrew and Aaron that God will prepare, enable and undertake for them in the days leading up to the Visit and in the time they are with us.
• We haven’t yet heard about their Visa’s, so keep praying.

This prayer newsletter has been compiled by the Uganda Partnership Group as a way to keep the wider “Uganda Support Community” within New Peninsula Church engaged and updated on our mission partnership with Bethel Church in Mooni community, near Mbale, Uganda. Quotations from correspondence have been edited. Please feel free to distribute this prayer newsletter to others. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, or wish to be placed on the distribution list, please contact Dorrie TERRINGTON.

Excerpts from New Peninsula Uganda Partnership Prayer Newsletter - August 2012

News, praise and prayer points:

1. This Month is a tough Month for us as a church and family. World wide it is a month for Muslims’ Ramadan fasting. They have used this to almost physically want to attack us. Because we live right next to the Mosque, our house has been stoned many times in the night as some of them come to pray in the night and very early in the Morning. Youth openly abuse any one of us who passes around the Mosque when they are in a group. So we need your prayers.
2. It is also a Month for the official opening of the circumcision ceremony which my tribe does. Again, we don't live very far from where the capital shrine is. Because we are Christians, we have been stopped on the way when we meet the crowds of people. Sometimes we find over 200 or even 400 people together chanting and lifting sticks, rocks, pangas and other dangerous tools up in the air wanting to take blood. Christians are the main enemies of the Worship. Pray that we stay safe. Yesterday was their official opening.
3. Pray that our travel documents to Australia shall go through successfully. (This is of paramount importance)
4. Pray for Emmanuel Church. Just in one week they have lost 2 prominent members. We are burying one tomorrow. As a young church it is tough for them to lose 2 very active people who have left dependents behind.
5. Pray that God shall hold me (Vinnie) and all the church leaders strong to continue the battle. We are always on the winning side as people are getting saved every week. But there are times when we almost want to give up when the battles remain endless. Some people think that if the young leaders get into trouble, Grace and I are responsible as it is we who have led them to Jesus. Keep praying for us as individuals.
6. In November I will sit for an exam. I will explain this latter when we come to Australia. But pray that I will get all the Money needed to carry on what I think is the right things for my ministry work.

Praise and Thanksgiving:                                                     

1. We thank God for his hand. There is a clan that lives in between Emmanuel and El Shaddai church. It stretches to where we live. That clan is the leading clan for the circumcision ceremony. There is a shrine they go to. This week we have been going to pray around the shrine, asking God that there shall be no blood poured as during this time many children are sacrificed at the Shrines. Yesterday as it was the opening day, they had a total confusion. The parents of the children who were chosen to be sacrificed did not allow it and there were big fights in the clan. Today as I was walking up hill to pray with the family who lost a person, I met two of the clan and shrine leaders. They stopped and told me about the confusion they had yesterday and they told me that they are going in the meeting to tell the rest that they are no longer interested in the clan and shrine. They openly told me that they now see that Christianity is the way to go. Even when they did not confess Jesus I think they are on the way. To me it was a praise point to hear such great men saying they are denouncing the worship.
2. Praise God that more and more people are coming to Christianity. Even when Christianity has been in Uganda for many years, it is still new in our community and people are finding out that it is a faith of liberty and freedom as opposed to traditional and Islam worship that are based on threats and fear and pretence. I think we are still growing.
3. We also thank God that even when there have been threats and attempts to attack the church, none of us has been badly attacked and no one has died from that. God is still at work and reaching his people each day.
4. One of the main witch Doctors who had remained in the community and lived near Bethel church, left some weeks back He has been a threat to new Christian converts. But the time came when he had to leave the community as he is no longer in business. Praise God for this. 

 

This prayer newsletter has been compiled by the Uganda Partnership Group as a way to keep the wider “Uganda Support Community” within New Peninsula Church engaged and updated on our mission partnership with Bethel Church in Mooni community, near Mbale, Uganda. Quotations from correspondence have been edited. Please contact Dorrie Terrington for further details or to be placed on the mailing list to receive this newsletter.

Excerpts from New Peninsula Uganda Partnership Prayer Newsletter - June 2012

Excerpts from New Peninsula Uganda Partnership Prayer Newsletter - June 2012

GOD’S ANSWERS TO THE PRAYERS OF HIS PEOPLE
                       
In our last prayer request we asked that you pray for the Baptism. On Sunday 3rd June 2012 we were able to Baptize 67 people. We had a guest from Australia, a former pastor of the Church by the Bay called Greg. He did the Baptism with me. It was a very successful day. We did not know the numbers were going to be so big. The members came from all our new branch churches and from Bethel. We had about 35 women and 32 men. This is a sign that the church is growing.  
On the same Sunday we dedicated over 80 Children. As numbers of Believers keep increasing, the number of children also grows.  
We have had several leadership trainings. We can see that our leaders are growing very well. As churches increase, leadership trainings have become so vital.  

BETHEL PRAISE   
1. Give thanks to God for His wonderful blessings to all who took part in the children’s dedication and baptisms.
2. Thank the Lord for the enthusiasm of new leaders.
3. We are grateful for good health to be able to do the work God has called us to do.                                                              

BETHEL PRAYER                                                                  
1. Continue to pray that each of our Churches will know God’s leading and blessing. Pray that the people’s hearts will remain open to the Spirit’s leading.
2. Pray for Pastor Vinnie and Grace. Pray that they will know God’s strength, encouragement, peace and joy as they shepherd the flock God has given to them.
3. Please prayer that Vinnie, Andrew and Aaron will soon receive their Visa’s for their trip to Australia. Pray that there will be no holdups but that the applications will be processed quickly.
4. Continue to pray for Mick, Andrew and Derek as they organise the program for when the visit takes place.
5. Pray for the Bethel Community Programs – Goats to widows, Micro Finance, Hire of equipment for big events, Children’s Club Medical work.


This prayer newsletter has been compiled by the Uganda Partnership Group as a way to keep the wider “Uganda Support Community” within New Peninsula Church engaged and updated on our mission partnership with Bethel Church in Mooni community, near Mbale, Uganda. Quotations from correspondence have been edited.

For further details contact Mick & Dorrie TERRINGTON or Jamie EDGERTON.