Uganda 2011

A team of students, staff and their family members from the Christchurch campus visted Uganda this year and below are some excerpts from their newsletters.

Before leaving NZ, the team received the following words of knowledge: God gave the team a picture of what the church in Namulesa would look like - a field with a tent in it. On arrival, they found a field with a wooden structure which the team found out was being used in conjunction with a covering that the local staff described as a tent. The team also felt that they would not have to pay for the land to build the church and homes. On arrival, the team were offfered the land for free and so they are able to use the funds raised for the buildings.
	"We ran a 2 day programme with the kids at House of Aroha about encountering transformation. After showing the Jesus Movie in Luganda many children received Jesus and understood what it means to be a child of God. Our relationship with these children had grown to a point where they were able to share some very traumatic experiences and we prayed over them. We prayed for children individually to be filled with the Spirit and we saw more healing, children speaking in tongues, and children dreaming about their future with God."
"We had the very first church service of Yesu Mulungi (this is a church to train and release people into full relationship with God and each other and to see Namulesa transformed). We had about 100 children and 25 adults worshipping under a tree. Many children came into relationship with God as well as our van driver. It was great to see the children seeing a good future for them and their village and seeing they have a significant role to play in this."
	"We got to join the Annual General Meeting of the school (St Paul's) and share God’s plan for family. We saw about 40 adults and 30 children respond to the salvation message and finished the outreach praying for about 30 adults. There were backs, shoulders, stomachs and knees healed. We suspect they have never had an Annual General Meeting like that before!"
"We baptised about 40 people including our van driver (Kashim who was saved last Sunday) at the Home of Hope."
	"Met with the church leaders to plan the Encountering Transformation Conference on Friday and Saturday. Mouths dropped open when the pastor told us the number coming would be between 1000 and 2000 (we were expecting between 50 and 100). It was a big step moving from running our conference for 50 to over 1000 on Friday. There were plenty of opportunity for people to respond and receive prayer ministry. There were over 200 salvations, too many healings to record. We taught about the Holy Spirit, prayed for people to be filled and released them to transform their community. A highlight on the second morning was hearing people’s testimonies of healing as a result of our first day. We heard about eyes healed, joints healed, a boy began walking, pain and fever leaving bodies, deliverance and forgiveness and emotional healing."
"A highlight in Pastor Joseph’s church was hearing the people respond to God’s words and raising their faith to see it as possible. There were also many salvations before church even started as people had heard what had happened at the conference. In the other church one key children’s leader was trained in how to let children experience God."