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.