This last week we had the monthly care team meeting. Which is always such a great time for me getting to not just hear people but see them, interact with them, from my home where I came from. Thank you guys for everyone who attends and for all of you who watch later. That you guys are actively involved, what a blessing that is for me and the ministry. Because and not everybody’s meant to go, right?!
I was a little sick over the weekend but I’m doing better now. I’m thankful for that and thank you guys for praying for those of you who were praying for me, answered prayer.
Ww are coming up to the end of our second term this year. This ends this week! We’ll have a quick teachers meeting and then we are going to take a break until sometime in late January or early February. At the time we will start up with our term three classes for people in and around the Jinja area. You can be checking our web page for updates on our webpage CalledChristians.org/education.
We also have started preparing for a class we’re offering next term. which I’m so excited about. Iit’s called, The Truth Project. This came out some few years ago talking about how to have a Christian world view. We’re super excited about this, it’s going to be 13 or 14 weeks long, on a Saturday afternoon. You are welcome to come, it’s free of charge. We’ll discuss different areas, things like Work, Anthropology, History, Science, Evolution, what is truth? Love this program and I’m excited that we’re going to have this in term 3.
This week we also went out for evangelism and people got saved🎉 Always exciting expanding the kingdom. You know our mission is to make disciples that make disciples and that starts with salvation. Someone coming to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Then that sanctification process starts where you begin studying, growing, attending things like classes and getting involved in cell groups and serving at church. We get excited when people join the family, so celebrate with us.
We have one-on-one discipleship still going on. We’re having a little Christmas gathering soon and then we’ll hold the monthly meeting. This is a time of encouragement for scrolls where we talk about what God is doing and through us. We hear a devotion, we spend some time in prayer together. If you could keep that covered in prayer please as there are a lot of people doing one-on-one discipleship right now. This is just wonderful, again fulfilling our mission and vision that God gave us making disciples that make disciples. And that happens one soul at a time. Thank you guys for praying, I’ll talk to you next week.

Quick reminder we have a fundraiser going on right now, lots of great Christmas gifts, beautiful designs, lots under $30, some useful things, some things just for fun 😍

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This last week this Friday we held the round table when is it okay to lie? Wow what a wonderful evening with so much conversation back and forth as we all learned what God says about lying. He said we shouldn’t be doing that. The video of the roundtable is on YouTube.com/@calledchristiansuganda if watch it for yourself. This week we also went out for some evangelism. We were chatting with people about Christ and about topics or concerns that people have about faith in Christ. Things like why doesn’t he answer my prayers or why do bad things happen to good people, things our that… I’m thankful for the apologetic classes where we get to help people answer doubts and objections about their faith. Thankful we can equip people to think about such things and be able to respond.

We do have a few more weeks of classes left and then we will be closing for a month. The education department closes for Christmas. Can you believe Christmas is coming up guys, it’s coming so quickly. We have a Christmas video taking about the differences betterment Christmas in Uganda versus the US. We had so much fun making this video, we hope that you enjoy it as well as we learn more about each other and the traditions that we have in different cultures.

Prayers for things coming up: the Christmas program is really dominating our time right now. It’s happening the week of the 15th. We will go to 10 prisons to present a Christmas program to the prisoners. If you guys could cover that in prayer that would be amazing. That souls would be saved and lives would be changed during that time. Plus everything would run smoothly, the transportation, the cast, all the things that go into the store. We have evangelism coming up a couple times over the next few weeks to close out our term. Beverly will be back soon. Then tomorrow, Saturday, there’s the monthly care team meeting. I would love to see your face! You should have gotten an email with the link to attend that call. If you didn’t get it please shoot me a note. Thank you guys for praying and I’ll see you tomorrow 😍

Happy Friday friends,

This last week we recorded a promotional video for Christmas, that should be coming out pretty soon. I did some volunteer work at the church. We did a deep clean of the church to get ready for the holiday season. Also, you may know I work out during the week. This week at work out i injured my leg, it’s hard getting old 😂 seems I stretched, pulled, not torn in half or anything, but I hurt a muscle near the right knee. The doc says 2 weeks and it should be fine. So, praying for that and praising for God’s protection since the muscle wasn’t actually ripped in half. Praise the Lord for that!

Sadly, this week Pastor Joseph’s brother died, Martin. Pastor will be traveling to Kenya next week for the burial. Prayers got safe travel and for him and his family as they adjust to their new reality.

Classes are still happening, prayers for the teachers, for the students, for the facilities, for everything to run well and for God to be glorified in the process as we chase after Him.

Things coming up: today. Friday afternoon, we have a Scale Outreach by main market in Jinja City. We should be there by about 4:30 if you want to come over and help or, if you want to come and get weighed and find out how tall you are you’re welcome to come. It’s free! Normally people are charged to know how much they weigh in Uganda.

Then we have our discipleship dinner tomorrow night. Next week we’re holding a Round Rable where we’re going to talk about: when is it okay to lie? The Bible has a lot to say about lying and there’s even examples of lying in the Bible. We’re going to discuss it next Friday. We also have some evangelism coming up in a couple weeks, there’s still a lot going on as we’re heading into the holiday season.

Then lastly, prayers for the Christmas program. I think you know that Called Christians is a prison ministry and we go to 10 prisons. We put on a Christmas program every year for the prisoners. The cast is practicing now, the singing, the dancin,g the acting. Prayers for that so it goes well and then we’re also praying for provision to buy rice for prisoners as a Christmas present. As you can imagine 10 prison is a lot of people so it’s big chunk of rice! But God’s economy works in ways that we don’t understand. We trust Him and we love Him and we keep moving forward understanding that His provision will come in it’s due time.

Thank you for praying for these things, and for partnering with us as we work to make disciples that make disciples.

Mukama akuwe omukisa

pic: TJ brought his friend to church

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