I Peter 2:2

Even as we work to supply new believers with the spiritual food so necessary to their growth, outreach is expanding into new areas, and shows no signs of slowing down. The current outreach method is for Pastor Fred Kiyingi to travel with a group of solid Believers from his own church to meetings at scheduled locations. The team puts on a service preaching the Word of the Hour. The team is self-sufficient and brings their own sound system and performs special music. Even a generator is taken along as many places do not have their own electricity.

Due to the condition of roads in Uganda, travel is difficult and it can take many hours to go relatively short distances, and may require overnight stays. But this is the method of outreach God has been blessing with fruit. At these meetings the Message is both preached and demonstrated, and the spiritually hungry are responding. Miracles take place as lives are transformed, and faith in the Word is received by the only God-ordained method: the hearing of the Word. Even as Brother Fred and his team travel to new places, there is a constant call to return to villages they have previously visited, to offer more services and more Word teaching.

There is so much to be done that Brother Fred and his team could be doing this full-time, but that is impossible due to his responsibilities in pastoring his own church, maintaining the radio broadcast, and doing translation work. All this is done while his health is unstable, and he often must take days off to recover. Pray with us, for the health of brother Kiyingi, and for new laborers to enter this white harvest field.

Additionally, in many of the villages where the Word has been received, the new Believers have since been evicted from their denominational churches, and are meeting in hastily constructed shelters made of plastic and sticks–whatever can be found, or even in the open air. In some cases the senior pastor is with them, in other cases it is a junior pastor or simply elders who are carrying on with the newly formed church. Uganda has seasons during which scarcely a day passes without several torrential rainstorms. When this happens, the congregation simply carries on as best as they can. There is an immediate need for basic shelter for these groups; simple dependable structures that can function as churches.

The open-walled structure that we helped build for new believers in Kimaga is a model of what can be done. It gives the new believers a dry place to function, and over time, they can improve the building. At this time, there are up to 30 groups in need of some type of building. Many of these believers are so poor they don’t even own a Bible of their own, and if they did, it would be a special treasure they would want to keep dry, which would be difficult in open air meetings.

The church building in Kimaga was constructed for $10,000 US including land, and can support a church of about two hundred believers. This is a very low cost compared to what it would require to build a church in developed countries. The lessons learned from the construction of that church could be carried over to other projects.

The early beginnings of the current revival can be traced back to that very church, in Kimaga. These two churches, Kimaga and Migyera are in close proximity. No one knew at that time what would soon unfold, but now the first church of the revival has a building that other groups can use as a model. With that experience in hand, any funds we can raise for the construction of more churches would be sure to be used efficiently.

It was at our visit to Migyera that we discovered how real the lack of Bibles among Ugandan Believers truly is. In the leaky structure they used as a church, almost no one owned a Bible in which to turn to the scripture that was being preached. In our visit to several other places we began to see the same situation.
In the remote region of Manafwa where many of the recent baptisms took place, we spoke with the pastor and members of his congregation. In the video below, this sister, with her pastor standing by, offers a commonly heard plea: Bibles and Message Books. How striking it is, that in a country where at times, there is not even enough food to eat, we heard not one request for natural food. Only for Spiritual food.