Mission Trips for 2011

In 2011 we are planning 4 church planting campaigns into Uganda and Argentina. There is also potential for a fifth campaign into Moldova, God willing. To date the plans for 2011 are as follows:

Central, Uganda (March 11-20, 2011)
Santiago del Estero, Argentina (June 3-12)
Buenos Aires (Pilar), Argentina (June 10-19)
Mid-West, Uganda (July 15-23, 2011)

Come join us on mission in 2011.

Uganda July 2010 Mission Trip

During this month we saw a small five men team head to the Luwero Province of Central Uganda to share Christ and assist in the planting of a new church. We partnered with Ggaba Community Church and Africa Renewal Ministries out of the capital city of Kampala. This healthy and visionary church began Ggaba Bible Institute just a few years ago with the intention of training pastors as they go back into the regions where there are little or no churches. Pastor Peter Kasirivu of Ggaba Community church targeted the community of Naamasujju in the province of Luwero as the location of this year’s church planting focus. After receiving training at Ggaba Bible Insitute, Pastor Timothy Kisaakye moved to the Naamasujju Community just a few months back. This was the original home of Pastor Peter Kasirivu, and had been his prayerful dream to assist to plant a church in the home of his parents in Naamasujju.
Our American team consisted of myself, pastor Jay Moeller, coach Brad Stephens, and college students, Evan Holman and Christopher Ross. Our team arrived on a Friday night and began ministry right away on Saturday. We focused the morning on training the national team with the tools we brought to share the gospel and then led them out on mission in the communities of Naamasujju and Woblinsi that afternoon. The response was overwhelming. Sunday we worshipped with the core group at Naamasujju and again went to the streets to share the good news of Christ. During the week we emphasized personal evangelism and discipleship, seeing hundreds respond by placing their faith in Christ. On Monday and Tuesday evenings we added Christian film at the Naamasujju site. In addition we had the opportunity of sharing Christ in three schools in the Naamasujju community. We were overwhelmed at the response of the community that week, sharing Christ with 1220 men, women, and children, and leading 490 to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We also were able to go back for 51 discipleship appointments with new believers.
While we were able to see many families trust Christ together, there were also many individuals that trusted Christ even when their families did not. We were even amazed to see many Muslims come to know Christ, knowing that they would be ostracized by their families. We saw both the young and old place their faith in Christ during the week. I was blessed to lead many men and women in their later teens to the Lord, but also was blessed to lead a man as old at 100 to a saving knowledge of Christ. We closed out the week with a celebration lunch for the new believers. Over 100 joined us on Thursday for lunch at the church site as we celebrated the birth of the new church in Naamasujju. Pray with us for the follow up work that is already in process by Pastor Timothy and the Naamasujju leaders.
Our team ended our time in country by visiting the mother church, Ggaba Community Church, just outside the capital city of Kampala. We also visited Bethany Village where I was able to lead a church planting team in 2002. Today it has a healthy church, a clinic, a Christian school, and 11 orphanage homes. We are praying for this “model” to be a reality in Luwero as the church of Naamasujju matures in the coming months and years.