SEEING THE HAND OF THE LORD IN MY DARKEST TIMES

    The month of December 2024 was one of the darkest times of my life. My dad suffered a stroke and his blood pressure rose so high that he almost passed on. Money was needed for a quick cerebrum scan, but I didn’t have any money and I came to a point where there was nothing more I could do; so I left everything to God.

    I thought I should reach out to my friends for help, but all those I tried to reach out to were also going through rough times. I was left with only one option, to look to the heavens.

My mother and I standing behind my dad the day
he was discharged from the hospital.

    God worked miracles for my dad. The doctors offered to run the cerebral scan for free and they found that the right side of his brain was damaged, affecting his memory.

    The necessary medications were very expensive and I didn’t know what to do. My whole family was looking to me for help, expecting that I had money because I was in the mission field. In fact, it is the very opposite because I choose to trust God with my daily needs for food and other provisions. 

    So one morning, as I was doing my morning devotion, I read James chapter 5 and verse 15 caught my attention.

"Prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven’’ JAMES 5:15

    I never stopped praying for my dad and asking friends to pray. After a week my dad’s memory started to come back, and he was discharged, though not totally recovered yet. I want to thank you for showing up for me in this battle.

Mario and I arrived at the base.

    After the new year, I started to prepare to travel back to the Isiro area of the Congo to plan a DTS. I was determined to see that the DTS, which the team in Isiro was longing for, came to pass.

    My friend Mario was with them and was also ready to travel with me to the Congo. We left Uganda on January 8^th and traveled by motorcycle across the border to DRC. We then boarded a bus to a town called Duruba where we spent a night at DISSA. Early the following day, we left by motorcyclist to Isiro. It took us 10 hours to reach it but God was so faithful and provided us a way, for the first time, to complete our journey.

JANUARY 2025

    When we arrived at the base I was warmly welcomed by kids from the surrounding neighborhood. These kids brought me so much joy and I missed them almost as much as they missed me. Three days later I was with them teaching Bible stories. They love to color pictures after hearing the stories from me.

Kids showing off their work

    After giving the kids the opportunity to color I am able to look at each kid’s picture and speak words of encouragement over them. Several parents from the community approached me and thanked me so much for what I was doing for their kids. Those who were shy are now becoming brighter. They have learned how to pray and they pray every day in their homes. Some have even shared the stories I tell them with their parents.

Sharing ideas

 

The kids express joy in being together.

A mom and her children travel home after a King Kids program.

PIONEERING THE LONG AWAITED DTS

 

January-March 2025 update

    It is a wonderful privilege to be part of this great team. God has been doing amazing things as we transition between old and new staff. 

    In the past, the base has had trouble growing due to fights among team members. This delayed the fulfillment of God's purpose and it took them 9 years to build and pioneer their first DTS. But God, through the old team, prepared the ground for the new team and it is wonderful to see how God's plan isn't man's plan.

                                          

The old DTS team and God's work

    Well, we were supposed to run this DTS in June 2024, but there was resistance. None of the speakers were available to teach at that time, we had no students, our classroom construction process was so slow, and the team struggled to decide who should lead the school. After we came together to pray, we felt the peace of the Lord leading us to move the DTS to February 2025. 

    In these few months, a lot of changes took place. One old staff member dropped off, so I stepped in to replace them. A few months later another member dropped off so another local staff member came to join us. Towards the start of the DTS school, God added Roger and Lucia to our staff, a couple from the local community. These two did their DTS in 2016 in Arua and have been very actively involved in the Church and led all the churches in the province. It was amazing to see how God prompted them to be part of this DTS.

STUDENTS of 2025

    Processing the students was another thing. We prayed for each student who applied and on their arrival we heard testimonies from each student on how God prompted them to do this DTS. Five students were admitted and three of them tried their best to pay for half of their lecture phase. This was a huge encouragement to us as a staff.

Student reporting for their first day of DTS.

Leading worship and Intercession.

Praying for our visitors who had to be evacuated due to the war in the Eastern Congo.

GOD SPOKE TO OUR FIRST SPEAKER THAT CAME TO TEACH.

   The journey was very hectic and it took Leo, our first speaker, 3 days to arrive at the base. God spoke to Leo and prompted him to come and bless the opening of the base, but he was delayed on the road when their bus broke down. He came and taught on the nature and character of God in the first week and then in the second week he taught on hearing God's voice. You could say it was God's voice teaching through him. 

    We had a wonderful two weeks with him, and the lord spoke to Him so powerfully. By the end of the two weeks, the students were receiving dreams and visions and felt that God was already speaking to them.

Students and staff praying for God's will to be done in their lives to reach the communities

Thank You!