- 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.
- 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.
- Pray that our travel documents to Australia shall go through successfully. (This is of paramount importance)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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