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C-TBS

During the lock down,the C-TBS has been active but to a minimal percentage. Only 7 of our students have been able to continue with their school work,mainly because they have access to computers,so they can receive,read and send back information to us by emailing and other means.

During this month of June we( C-TBS Staff) have been holding meetings to pray/discuss how we can better include a bigger number back into their bible study work.And starting July,the Old Testament class in Mukono will be able to resume their classes as we also start looking at the New Testament class that we run at Bweyogerere.

The New Testament class needs more time in classroom teaching and one on one interactions as we had just introduced them to the inductive approach when we where locked down.

(L-R) Andrew Kiwanuka, Dan Muwanguzi, Peter Sekatawa, Joseph Kamya, Fred Mongoi

Andrew Kiwanuka.

School of bibilical studies (YWAM)

Chief cordinator C-TBS

Dan Muwanguzi

Director CMM

Director C-TBS

Peter Sekatawa

Pastor, Deliverence Church Mukono

Cordinator C-TBS, Mukono

Joseph Kamya

Over seer, Bweyogerere pastors’ fellowship

Cordinator, C-TBS pastors’ class

Fred Mongoi

Leadership team, Bweyogerere pastors’ fellowship

C-TBS Cordinator, Bweyogerere class

Our Teaching team comprises of 3 other teachers on top of the 5 in the photo. please keep praying with us as we get back into our bible study classes.

FOOD DISTRIBUTION.

Few days after the Lock down was announced in Uganda,there was a lot of panic and anxiety in most families in Uganda mainly because of the parents concern about how they were to feed their families. CMM through our friends (Supporters)has been able to help purchase and give some amounts of food mostly to the parents/families of our CMM sponsored children.This has been appreciated so much by the mothers and grand mothers and our CMM children.

CMM children and their families receiving food supplies in Karamoja.

Food distributions.

Thank you so much to all our friends/co workers.we are very grateful for your friendship,prayers and support to us.

We CMM always thank God for all our friends/ co-workers in Christ for your continuous love, support, and encouragement to us. God has always used you to encourage us to reach out to our brothers and sisters here in Uganda, and we pray that even in this period of COVID-19 the hand of God will always be upon you, your families, and relatives to protect you and to keep you well.

Last month, in our report, we did present to you a brief idea as to how some of our CMM members are doing and how they spend their day.

On top of us spending more time with our families, all our members are in touch with other church members too regularly communicating and praying together in small allowed groups, on the phone, Emails, and other communication means.

As we report today, The COVID 19 positive cases are 230, 63 have recovered well.

All the latest cases are coming in mostly because of the Truck drivers bringing in cargo in and out from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan.

Our main concern today would be that the positive cases remain small so that they do not overwhelm the Ugandan Health System.

We reported last time, the need for food mostly and other basic needs for most families. Most of our people here can only cater for one day’s needs and only if they are working. Now its 2months since the Lockdown, The biggest cry for most of the people are food mostly and basic needs. The day most people stopped working, they stopped earning therefore many are in the food crisis.

Will you please pray for us too along those lines.

CMM children receiving foodstuffs

We as CMM are working together with our co-workers in Victoria-Canada. The Uganda partnership society (TUPS) have so far been able to help buy some but minimal amounts of food to mostly the families where our CMM sponsored kids come from. This help has been so much appreciated by our mothers and grandmothers that take care of our CMM sponsored children.

It is still our desire and prayer that we will continue to help even more as much as the Lord will enable us. Please keep praying with us along those lines too.

C-T.B.S

By March 2020

We were running three Bible classes in different locations with altogether more than 55 students. Some in the Old testament and others in New testament.

When the lockdown started around 20th March, the N.T class could not continue at all as the students were still very much in their primary stages of understanding the “inductive approach” and hey very much needed a lot of one to one guidance on top of the class lectures. So the N.T was put completely on hold.

Among the O.T students, 7 have continued to do their work mostly by themselves but with some help with either E.mail, phone calls o other means of communication. And those who have continued is mostly because they have access to a computer and therefore they can receive information, read/study and keep going.

Dan doing his personal studies / C-TBS work at his office.

We are receiving very encouraging feedback from this group yet it is our prayer that the lockdown will end soon so we can catch up with our other students too. We have followed the work of these 7 and it is very impressive.

And on top of grading their work and communicating with them, we always/ regularly share prayer needs for them and their flocks since they are pastors of different churches.

And mostly our discussions and prayers are along lines of food or medical needs for this or that family. And as we discuss and pray, in some desperate cases we have tried and raised help to some of such families.

Please keep praying for these and other pastors too along those lines. And we pray that the Lord will continue to keep you and your families safe and growing in Him.

With greetings and appreciation from all our CMM  team members.

God bless.

Greetings to all our friends/co-workers. As you will be aware, Uganda like many other countries is on the lockdown therefore very few essential activities can take place nationwide.

We too, as the CMM team to a big extent spend most of our time at home. In this report, we are letting you know how things are going on with some of our individual CMM families during the lockdown season.

Kato Edward’s Family.

Our family is comprised of 5 members; Kato Edward, Nambatya Diana Kato, Namata Abigail Earon, Muwanguzi Hansen Ssenyondo, Nabirye Janipher.

The Katos.

Since March, we are at home since its lockdown all over the country. We use most of this time to bond with the children since we were a bit busy before the lockdown. We get time to pray, play, and do different things together.

At first, Diana was too much scared about this COVID-19 until we heard a message from the pastor at Watoto that “Jesus Christ is above all thing and will surely take us through so be strong”.

In order to keep ourselves safe, we pray for our health, we boost our vitamin B by drinking lemon juice and eating fruits. We always sanitize, wash our hands, and stay at home.

What we have been doing is praying for others and helping some people financially with the little that we have.

Our prayer request is that God continues to provide for our family through this trying moment.

Byamugisha Richard’s Family.

Thank God the lockdown announcement found us all home as a family otherwise it’s been complicated for those that traveled since they’ve had to stay where they are until circumstances change.

Much of the time has been for personal reflection and family ministry. Since the Lockdown crisis, we laid a program for a family alter, personal prayer time, bible study, playtime, home chores, and online ministry.

Family time.

Since my family is very young, we start our day with the family alter at 7am. Each adult member has a day to share the word from the bible, that’s Mary, Isaac, my wife Molly, and myself. We then share prayer requests and end the prayer time.

Prayer time.

We then embark on Breakfast which is normally at 8:30am. Mary and Isaac go for home classes which are supervised by either me or my wife. The class usually takes 2hrs and they join their friends to play. Our vicinity is comprised of staff members, where my wife Molly teaches, with their families. So we have a total of 12 children in one location. Luckily we all agreed on the health standards for that crisis. We usually have a clear program of lunch and supper till evening where we converge at 8pm and wrap up with prayer.

Meal time

It’s been a hard moment of no movement but it’s been a great time for bonding. We have learned much about being together for the last month on a daily basis. We also get simple exercises since we are prohibited from moving far from homes.

Staring at nature.

We have also mobilized foodstuffs for 3 vulnerable families in our community and 2 distant families. The distant families are the triplets and the Oldman George from Mitooma in Western Uganda. Since we don’t know when the lockdown is ending, we request friends to pray for us not to lack. Our children in Karamoja are in a dare situation, so they need prayer for God’s intervention so that we may lose them due to hunger.

Mugabi Isaac’s Family.

We have a young family of 2 boys, Sharma, 4 and Timothy, 2 with Sharma doing his first year in nursery school, and Mercy my wife doing her first year at University.

Our day starts as early as 7am but in intervals, with Mercy and I getting up first and plan and prepare for the day, while the boys join us at about 8am for breakfast.

I am usually quite engaged for most of the day in research and planning for my new business setup and some software development work as the boys do what they do best, video games, while Mercy does the cooking (for most of the days) and some reading after.

The Mugabis

The evening time has always been meet-up time to pray as a family and share on a number of things including the word of God.

We continue praying to God for provision in these trying times.

Dan Muwanguzi’s Family.

The ideal day for the Muwanguzi family during these days. I usually wake up around 6am, go to my home office and usually start my quiet time (bible study, meditation/prayer until 8am.

Princess and the boys join me at 8am and we spend an hour in the bible study, prayer for our selves and friends, and then discuss any other educative/discipline stuff. Afterward, we share a cup of tea/coffee as Miriam and Timothy also join us a bit later to continue starting off the day together.

(L-R) David, Jonathan, Mike and Princess for the Morning devotion.

At 10am, I communicate with about 7 of my student pastors plus 3 co-CTBS teachers to work on the C-TBS assignments for those 7, at times sharing about the COVID-19 challenges in different communities, receive prayer requests from various churches/individuals which are mostly around food/provision and health of any family.

In the afternoons, the kids are doing their schoolwork/personal studies, Miriam joins the kitchen crew and by 2pm I get back into my personal studies, communication, and any other CMM related work.

At around 5, we as a family get back again together chatting/informal discussions. The evening is TV/News plus good nights.

Prayer requests.

We are currently faced with a challenge of many of our friends, neighbors, co-workers, relatives, single mothers, the elderly, etc who stopped earning weeks back because of the lockdown yet Ugandan families are big.

Every day, we are receiving either phone-calls, visits, or text messages needing help along food/medicine lines, genuine yet many. We usually respond to the best that we can and will appreciate prayers along those lines for us and Uganda at large.

The muwanguzis.

We thank you all for your continuous prayers and support to us. We too are praying for you more especially during this COVID-19 season.

Dear friends and co-workers in christ, we thank the Lord for what He continues to do in Uganda through CMM. We also thank you so much for being part of this through your continuous prayers and support. Thank you for loving us and the people of Uganda.

Namugongo Medical outreach.

On 3rd March 2020, we ministered to the people of Namugongo, Kira, Misindye, Jinja Misindye,
Butto, Buloli, Nakiyanja, and other surrounding areas.
CMM preached the gospel through a medical outreach with help from dentists and ophthalmologists.
The mission was done in partnership with;
St Luke Church, Namugongo Martyrs Anglican Church, Mulago Dental School, Guardian optics, Janda LC1.

The Medical Outreach at Namugongo

Namugongo Martyrs Church Supported us with a free venue and all the groundwork.
Janda local council 1 partnered with us in the mobilization of masses in schools, villages, and churches to conduct the outreach at a free cost.
Mulago dental school gave us 18 dentists with drugs, dental Forceps, syringes, cotton wool, and gloves.
Guardian Optics gave us one ophthalmologist and one support staff. They came along with glasses and eye drugs.
We were able to work on 367 people of which 53 were eye cases.
15 people came to Christ and we handed them over to church leaders for discipleship and nurturing.
Among the people who were helped, 284 were school-going Children from Namugongo Mixed Primary School and Green Gates Junior School.

We highly appreciate God for the Grace and favor on that day and during preparation.

Matugga  Dental and eye camp

CMM in partnership with Mulago dental school  had a dental and eye camp at Searchlight of God church Matugga on 20th February. We treated 27 people who had both dental and eye issues. We thank God for the grace to reach the hearts of people. We had a great time of one on one and 5 people gave their lives to Christ. We thank God for that ministry that touches the hearts and bodies of people.

Medical Outreach at Matugga

On the 12th of March, we CMM, received our friends (guests) from Victoria Canada, James, Josie, Anika and Jaimee.

We thank the Lord for the demonstrated courage and faith by the Degreefs family for coming during such critical days when COVID-19 is on the rise and given the tension that was all over the whole world.

The Degreefs were in Uganda from the 12th to 22nd March. While here, they were involved in a many ministerial activities and one of them is the Buyuki Medical Outreach.

Buyuki Medical Outreach

On 17th March CMM with the Degreefs’ family held a successful medical outreach in Buyuki Luweero district which It started at 8:00am and ended at 5:00pm.

Treating different cases at Buyuki.

With 25 Dentists from Mulago Dental school, we worked on 234 dental cases of whom 192 were extractions. The rest were complicated cases and were therefore referred to a bigger facility.

We had 2 opticians from Guardian optics who worked on 113 patients of whom 78 received free glasses from TUPS. 23 patients were referred for surgeries.

Uganda Cancer institute offered a specialist who worked on 39 breast checkups. 29 cervical cancer checkup and of the 29 prostate cancer screenings, 2 were positive, 150 people were talked to by Carol cancer foundation, The ones effected will be followed up for medication.

James, Josie, Molly Byamugisha and Pastor Godfrey Nsumba led the spiritual clinic where people were preached to. 50 people came to Christ.

The spiritual clinic is praying, counselling and sharing Christ with individuals who come for treatment.

Jaimee and Anika helped the dental team in dispensing medicines, etc

Butaleja prison visit.

On 19th March 2020, together with the Degreefs’ family, we visited the prison of Butaleja. We were not able to preach to the prisoners due to fears COVID 19 but we prayed with prison officers were able to donate cakes and drinks for 60 prisoners and officers plus soap and sanitary pads for female inmates and we blessed them with prayers.

The Butaleja prison visit.

Kalangala prisons visit.

On 25th, we visited 2 prisons on Kalangala island, Mugoye and Kalangala prisons. They’re both on the same island but 30km apart. Both prisons had 105 prisoners who are below 2yrs sentence. We took 34 bibles along with us, cakes and water for drinking. We gave 20 bibles to prisoners, 2 bibles to officers and 12 to the prison library. 67 prisoners gave their lives to Christ. We had a great time of sharing and praying with prisoners one on one. The next day on 26th, we got a call from the prison that 13 prisoners were pardoned when they appeared before the magistrates. It was a great miracle to the whole prison because it had never happened.

On our way to the Kalangala Island

Karamoja children visit.

In preparation for the new term, we visited the CMM kids in Karamoja to help them start the New Year and new term. We found them healthy and ready for school. We managed to visit some of their schools like Acherer primary school.

Our Karamoja children.

Shalom children’s visit.

Shalom reconciliation Ministry is an orphanage found in Kotido district in the Karamoja region. It’s headed by Mike Rainbow Okiddi. We found 32 children from 1 to 20 yrs of age. We had a great time of praise and worship led by the children. We later had a great time of sports in the compound of Shalom which lasted for more than an hour. Many children gave us their memory verses.

Visiting the Shalom Children

We praise God for the Grace to travel to Karamoja and back safely.

C-TBS Classes.

Greetings to all our friends/co-workers in Christ. We the C-TBS staff team would like to thank you all for your prayers, support and encouragement especially during these days where COVID-19 has presented such a big threat internationally.

C-TBS Pastors’ class

February and early March, all our C-TBS usual programs were running well but like all other businesses in Uganda, we have put down most of the tools for the next day 25 days first in obedience to the government given COVID-19 management guidelines.

As you could be aware, the Uganda government has closed all schools, church gatherings, all shops/stores except for stores selling foodstuffs, all vehicles cannot move except a few government official cars. We are therefore very much restricted to stay indoors for a period of 20 days as the government monitors the situation.

The Muwanguzi family.

Both schools (OT and NT) bible classes started on the 2nd weekend of March. The NT class at Bweyogerere started with 33 students from 7 different churches and the OT class at deliverance church Mukono had started with 17 students from 4 different churches. We are currently in touch with most of our students on phone, encouraging each other in prayer and reading / studying the scriptures.

We continue to pray and seek the Lord in regard to the current situation. Please continue to pray with us more especially in our context where many are not working yet feeding and other necessities have to continue. There’s already cries from many different families more especially for food and other daily needs. May the Lord be with you and continue to keep you well. We also love you and thank you so much for being part of us and supporting the work of God here in Uganda.

We bless the Lord for the New Year 2020. It was started with Great assignments for the Kingdom of GOD.

CMM Executive meeting.

On 12th January we had a CMM executive meeting which was attended by all the executive members; Dan Mwanguzi, Richard Byamugisha, Racheal Kalembe, and Mrs. Florence Wanaswa.
We discussed the following: –
a) Evaluation of 2019 Ministry activities; weaknesses and strengths and made various suggestions for each ministry.
b) Planned for New Year 2020; allocated different ministry activities to respective people.
c) Prayed and dedicated all the activities in the hand of God Almighty.

Prisons’ Ministry.

On 19^th January, we visited the Karungu Prison found in Karungu district which is 438km South West of Kampala.

We ministered in partnership with Free Methodists Church headed by Bp. Dr. Hamlet Kabushenga. They gave us a team of 18 ministers who backed us.

We preached to 158 prisoners and 16 received Christ as their personal savior.

We gave them 30 Runyankole–Rukiga Bibles and 1 Kinyarwanda Bible.

We shared with each of them a bottle of coke.

We give glory to God for the bounty harvest.

Kanungu prisons’ ministry.

On 20^th January, we visited the Kabale Regional Police Station.

We preached to 64 prisoners and 18 police officers.

We donated 5 Runyankole – Rukiga Bibles.

Prisons’ ministry.

Dental Outreach.

We had our very first dental outreach in Nkunguluntale wakiso district 19km west of Kampala.

We did it in partnership with Mulago dental school which gave us 18 dentists.

We worked on 60 people who were all for extraction.

Medical outreach.

On the other note, my family celebrated the second birthday of our lovely twins Kakuru Shammah and Kato Shalom. We pray for good health and protected life in God’s presence.

Birthday celebrations

Butaleja End of year gospel mission.

As Usual, CMM conducted a 4 days gospel mission in the areas of Butaleja at the end of 2019.

The four days open-air gospel crusade attracted a total of about 500 people per day and a total of 213 people gave their lives to Christ. The 31st crossover night service had over 1000 people.

We also had a prison visit that was held on 30th December where we ministered to a total of 56 people and 29 of them gave their lives to Christ.

Racheal led a team of 4 members that helped with the children’s’ ministry where 35 children were attended to.

The Butaleja End of year Gopsel mission.

 THE C-TBS CLASSES.

Early March 2020, the two bible classes will be starting. We will be running the O.T class at Mukono Deliverance church and the N.T class at Bweyogerere.

Since January, the C-TBS staff have been involved in recruiting new students which exercise involves visiting different churches sharing about the benefits of attending these bible training courses.

During these weeks, we also hold regular meetings, praying together and planning the course-related materials and the individual staff start preparing themselves for the books they are going to teach.

Speaking at a church service about the C-TBS

Meanwhile, the pastors’ bible class has continued on well, we are now studying the book of Romans and have received very positive feedback / Testimonies from these pastors.

This has also given us more opportunities for recruiting more ministers that are under these senior pastors.

Dan ministering.

We look forward to another fruitful year 2020.

We are so thankful to the Lord for such an opportunity to be able to be part of what God is doing in this country and we thank all our friends/partners for your prayers and support towards this ministry, God bless you.

We praise the Almighty God for the far He has bought us and we say Ebeneezer. God granted us an opportunity to minister to the souls of many and reach to them with the acts of Great
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LIRA DENTAL OUTREACH.

Lira is found in Northern Uganda 324km from Kampala City. It’s a district composed of low income earning peasants. Lira city is the capital of Lango sub region which is surrounded by districts like Dokoro, Aleptong, Oyam and Apac districts. The people from that region are called the Langi. In this outreach, we fully sponsored the medical part and our partner, Pastor Aguma Basil of Saints Harvest Church helped with our welfare. We worked on 154 dental cases for (2) two days on 15th and 16th November 2019 with 4 dentists. Many of the above cases were extractions with few cases of referral. Being in urban setting. Many people were coming from the above mentioned neighboring districts.

The CMM team taking on the dental outreach.

Visiting the CMM triplets

On the 9th November, we got another opportunity to visit the triplets. We were joined by our friends from Namugongo fellowship cell, with us we carried items to help them in Christmas clothes for both the children and parents, food stuff, sugar and soap. The family was left happy.

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The triplets after they received their Christmas package.

Home Evening fellowship.

The home fellowships were a blessing to our ministry. The Bethany Altar and Namugongo home cell were ministered to. People came to Christ and the love of God was greatly manifested. We give all the glory to God for empowering us.

The Home fellowship happening.

Bible distribution.

On 9^th December 2019, we visited pastors from the mountains of Rwenzori in Western Uganda. We gave them 40 Bibles in the Kinandi language. Kasese is 371 km from Kampala city. Its inhabitants are Bakonzho. We got a report that many pastors who occupy the Mountain lack Bibles. So we responded by giving 40 Bibles as a Christmas gift to 40 churches. Some pastors walked 16 miles to come and receive Bibles. It was Joy immeasurable for that part of the village. We hope to visit them again and add more Church Bibles and Minister to them medically.

Distributing bibles.

PRISONS MINISTRY.

Kalangala Prison Ministry.

On 14th December 2019 we travelled to the Island in Kalalngala District. We took the message of Peace to the hearts of Men.

We visited 2 Prisons on those Islands which are 28km apart.

In Kalangala prison, we donated to them 8 Matresses and 6 Bibles. These were the first mattresses ever to enter their prison cells. The prisoner danced with Joy beyond. The Prison administrators were highly grateful for the great ministry.

On that visit, we found 56 Prisoners of which 4 were women.

Headed to the Islands of Kalangala.

Kabale Regional.

We had another opportunity to preach to the suspects in Kabaale Regional Police Station. It handles criminals from Kigezi region. What comprises of Kabale , Rubanda Rukiga, Kisoro, Kanungu and Rukungiri districts.

We preached to 43 suspects and 18 gave their lives to Christ. We donated to them 2 Runyankore and Rukiga Bibles.

Ready to preach in the Prisons.

DENTAL OUT OF REACH
On 23^rd December 2019, we ministered to the people of Bwambara, Rukungiri district – my home Village. The dental outreach was carried out in Partnership with the natives of Bwambara who live in Kampala.
47 people were worked on by 2 dentists, all the people were for extractions.

The dentists helping out the community.

Children Ministry

On Christmas day, we had a great package for children. We prepared them great material for coloring, great music, sermon and gifts.

We ministered to 387 Children below 12 years. It was so refreshing and inspirational. We thank GOD for all those great souls that were ministered to.

CMM ministering to the Little ones.

C-TBS CLASS UPDATE.

By the time we graduated the O.T and N’T classes late October / Early November, we had started a new class This consists of only pastors all from around bweyogerere. A good number of pastors in this area had already done the C-TBS, but the other remaining ones requested that we meet with and teach them every Tuesday from 8am to 10am. We have been with this group since the beginning of November.

A bunch of 26 pastors who are currently learning the inductive approach and studying the new testament.

We have received very encouraging testimonies, many had never read or preached from the book of philemon until of recent when they went through this book with us.

One of the pastors had started writing a book and had given up but three weeks in their course, she picked on where she had left her book two years ago. She says that this course opened her eyes and simplified her approach in continuing with her book.

Many are now confessing that their approach in searching for Sunday sermons has changed as they now have plenty to preach and teach in their churches.

We as staff are finding this a very interesting class as we interact with individuals on a regular basis as they can right away relate what is going on in their churches, and communities etc.

The pastors’ class.

Please keep us in your prayers with this on going class.

And now around this time, we are also starting to visit different churches and encourage all church ministries to join our expected 2 bible classes due to start beginning of March.

CMM staff members are out doing many things, ministering in prisons, hospitals, schools, churches, children, praying and encouraging individuals.

We thank all our friends who are standing with us in prayers and supporting this work financially. May the Lord richly bless you.

Happy new year.

October was a very busy month with a number of activities around the country. We saw the hand of God in the prisons, villages, churches, and school ministries. This time round, CMM was blessed to host members from TUPS (David, Linda, Emily, Pr. Jeff and Ric) who took part in all the above activities.

BUYUKI MEDICAL OUTREACH.

We had a great ministry in the Buyuki community. Buyuki is found in Luwero district 54km North of Kampala along Gulu highway. The outreach took place on 29th Oct. and 295 people were worked on. The outreach had Dental services, Eye services, Cancer screening, and sensitization services, Diabetes and High Blood pressure screening services.

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Dental Services;

In partnership with a team of 22 dental students from Mulago Dental school headed by Allan Akankwasa, CMM and TUPS helped treat community members with dental problems. We worked on 112 patients who got services like extraction, scaling and dental sensitization. David from the TUPs team was on the support staff, Emily and Rick did the dispensing of drugs. Linda helped in cleaning and sterilizing the forceps. All the patients were worked on.

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Eye treatment Services;

The eye treatment services were given by the assistance of ‘Guardian Optics’ found in Kampala along Martin road. The team was headed by Mr. Sonko Elvis and we worked on 42 patients who were given reading glasses and eye drops at a subsidiary price. 15 of them were given free reading glasses because they couldn’t afford the cost at all.

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Cancer Screening Services;

The Lord connected us to the Uganda Cancer Institute who sent a team of 5 people to give free services to people. The services included; Prostate Cancer Screening – 16 men above 40 years were screened of prostate cancer and 1 was found with cancer. Breast Cancer – 30 women were screened of breast cancer and 2 were found with cancer. Cervical Cancer – 27 women were screened for cervical cancer and 1 was found with cancer. All 4 people were referred to the Uganda Cancer Institute for further help. The team was sent by Dr. Noreb Mugisha and headed by Yusuf.

High Blood Pressure And Diabetes;

Dr. Edwin Okello did the great work in screening 125 people with diabetes and High blood pressure, 34 people were found with High blood pressure and 21 with Diabetes.

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Spiritual Clinic;

The spiritual clinic was headed by Ps. Jeff Candell helped by Ps. Nsumba Godfrey as the translator. Many people were prayed for and others counseled of different spiritual issues.

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We appreciate God for the support team that helped in putting things together, the LC 1 chairperson of Buyuki for the great mobilization and groundwork, Ps. Ritah Kiyingi for the great work in registration and welfare. God bless you, Pr. Ssemwogerere for organizing people in their different tents, The youth Hub team for the great coordination on ground and supporting the medics, Searchlight of God Ministries Matugga and Wobulenzi teams for the great support in organizing and guiding patients.

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PRISON MINISTRIES.

Together with the TUPs team, we visited 3 prisons, Kasangatti, Butaleja, and Kotido all three prisons were served with a drink and a bite and the word of God. Kasangatti didn’t allow us in but we were able to pray with their representatives. In Butaleja we met 58 prisoners of which 1 was a lady. Ric peached with Emily about the love of Christ. 16 prisoners gave their lives to Christ of which 5 were Muslims. In Kotido we preached to 106 prisoners of which 16 were women. Ric and David preached the love of Christ and 68 gave their lives to Christ. We also shared with them sodas and cakes including the prison offers. We also gave each lady a packet of sanitary pads. All that was possible because of the good heart of the TUPS team.

CHURCH MINISTRY.

We visited a couple of churches in different parts of the country. These include;

Bulenga church

This is pastored by Pr. Justus Muhwezi and they meet four times a week. On Wednesday 30th October we met the ministers for 2hrs. David and Ric talked about the authority, great commission and the coming of the messiah. They also had one on one prayer time and the Spirit of God moved mightily.

Butaleja church.

We visited Butaleja Christian model church which was started by CMM. The turn up was very low due to the time factor but Pr. Jeff preached and encouraged Christians to remain strong.

Acherer PAG.

church We visited the Acherer PAG church found in Moroto District in Karamoja. Pr. Jeff preached in the main church, Emily, Linda, and Racheal preached in the children’s church.

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KARAMOJA CHILDREN.

We visited the kids in different parts of Karamoja;

Moloremu kids.

These are under the Divine care ministries. They have a Child Development Centre which is the only learning center for kids in an area of around 5000kids. The community gave out their land in order to educate their kids. We met 365 kids whom we shared the word of God to plus biscuits and other gifts.

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Acherer kids.

CMM sponsors 5 kids from Acherer where we even drilled a borehole. We gave them gifts and helped the P7 candidates with food to eat the next day. We prayed for their success.

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Kotido kids.

We at CMM sponsor 8 kids from kotido who live in different manyattas. We met them in the manyatta that belongs to Loyo Jenipher. The same visit turned into an open-air evangelism crusade. It attracted around 35 village people. Around 15 gave their lives to Christ. We discussed many issues with our children and we were highly encouraged. We later shared some eats and prayed together.

TRIPLETS.

We visited the CMM supported triplets on 19th October to help out with their livelihood. On the light, we brought supplies like sugar, soap, porridge flour, and Bread. The triplets later met the TUPs team on 26th October and it was of great joy.

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SHARING GIFTS FROM TUPS AMONGST THE CMM CHILDREN. 

We are grateful to God for the clothes and other gifts brought for the children in Uganda by the TUPS team on their trip to Uganda.

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C-TBS GRADUATIONS.

The new testament class which has been running since March graduated on Sunday 27th/October/2019 with 19 students from 5 different churches. The occasion took place in a Sunday church service at Mukono Deliverance church. This is a time of celebration and good testimonies from the students who have been working so hard studying inductively every book of the new testament.

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The TUPS team from Victoria Canada were our guests of honor on that day and they gave out certificates to the graduands.

Afterward, we shared a meal with the students and their guests.

The O.T class, on the other hand, had 13 of the students that successfully completed the study of the old testament. This class was running at God’s center of blessings Chruch but the 13 students came from 4 different churches.

The occasion took place during a Sunday church service on 10th/October/2019.

We are so grateful to the Lord for the contribution of these bibles courses towards the discipleship of the Nation of Uganda.

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Training of pastors and ministers at their locations allows them to continue with their routine work as they study each book of the Bible using the inductive approach. This is such a powerful and very effective discipleship tool in our churches today.

We are so thankful to the Lord for all the friends that stand with us in prayers and financially as this enables us as staff to continue doing our work more effectively.

Thank you so much.

Karamoja Ministry

Christian Model Ministries together with Divine Care Ministries went to Karamoja for two weeks.  The total number of missioners was 76. We camped at Koblin in Napak district for 4 days. Koblin is the resettlement area for street children got from Kampala and other cities, rehabilitated before sending them back to their respective homes or schools. Those four days were for fasting and prayers, seeking God for direction and spiritual mapping. We later dispersed to different directions into 7 groups.

Traveling to Karamoja

The entire team comprised of 16 members and we went to a village called DUOL. It is a very virgin place for the gospel. The place has no church, shop, school..

Morning Devotion

Each day had a different arrangement that ranged from discipleship, door to door evangelism, Children ministry, women groups, men meetings, open-air gospel crusades and one on one canceling.

Traveling to remote areas for evangelism.

While visiting the Manyattas (communities), we realized that people were in the bounty harvest for crops like maize (corn), sunflower, and sorghum (their staple food). Their cows were also looking good and giving them milk, in other words, there was no famine that whole year which is quite uncommon.

Having a good time with the kids

We spent 10 days in DUOL and we achieved the following;

• 169 people came to Christ.
• We started four home churches and another congregational church to combine all.

• 37 people were descipled to will run the home churches and pastor the community.
• A model pit latrine for the community in Nasinyonoit was constructed. The community of 80 people was using the bush, so they promised to build more pit latrines for hygiene.
• Prayed for different people for healing and deliverance.
• We reconciled communities and families who were at war.

Setting up a model latrine for the community.

Dental Outreach.

CMM In partnership with Mulago dental school which provided 13 dentists held a dental outreach at Christian Family Church Bulenga on 26^th September.

Dental ministry.

That place has so many vulnerable people who live a low-class life in slums and such services are so hard for them to reach. We attended to 31 people with extractions and referrals. 3 people came to Christ as a result.

Police Ministry.

With a theme of forgiveness as read in Mathew 18:21-32, CMM visited Seeta police post twice in the month of September. We realized that the theme carried heavy deliverance into the lives of the suspects.

One particular suspect was 21 years old by the names of Ssemakula Moses. He came to know his biological father two years ago after being abandoned since his childhood. He feels so bitter for his biological dad for not being considerate and throwing him to another family. And to his mom for hiding a precious secret for all that long. His question was; ‘Can I forgive such people?’ By God’s grace, he accepted Jesus in tears and forgave his parents.

C-TBS Class.

End of October is usually an exciting time for the C-TBS classes. Both classes will be winding up and graduating.

27th-October, the Mukono N.T class will be graduating and the graduation occasion will take place at Mukono Deliverance church. Currently, this class is winding up with the study of the book of revelation.

The old testament class is completing their studies on the books of the “minor prophets” and this class will be graduating on the 10th of November.

The pastors’ class at Bweyogerere.

Some few months back, The Bweyogerere pastors that meet every Tuesday morning, This group of pastors invited us (C-TBS) to take them through this course. The idea is that they (the senior pastors) would be trained by themselves and not mix them with any of their junior ministers.

5 weeks ago, we started this exciting bible class with this group of pastors and it is going on well.

Please keep praying for this bunch of 27 pastors. Each of them has a big congregation he is heading. We are now looking at the bible training course making a big impact on so many congregations in the whole area of Bweyogerere and Kira.

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We are so thankful to the Lord for all the friends who are praying with us and supporting the CMM work in Uganda.

We praise God for yet another month (the month of August) that was full of great activities/ministries. Like the previous months, August had more of prison ministry.

KASANGATI PRISON

Kasangati is frequently visited because the prison administrators gave us a wide reception. Our permission is just a call away. During the previous visits, the prison administrators told us that the problem they have is hygiene and so we could help them with soap and sanitary pads for women. So the Lord gave us the word of knowledge towards the problem by making reusable sanitary pads. Luckily enough, some of our very own CMM members knew how to make them so we had to purchase the materials for teaching the prison women how to make sanitary pads. So on 8th August 2019, we went to Kasangati prison and trained them on how to make their own sanitary pads. 23 prisoners and 2 prison officers learned. Amidst training, the gospel of hope was being preached.

While at Kasangati police station.

KALANGALA PRISON

Kalangala district is an island district and geographically under the not easy to reach areas of Uganda both in social services and the gospel. The Lord prompted us to visit the prisoners as we look for other avenues of the gospel in that land. We traveled on the ferry on 9th August 23, 2019. While on the ferry, we preached the gospel to some of the passengers. Along the whole journey, God spoke to us and we saw great opportunities for the gospel. The next day we went to the prison and found out that it comprised of very traumatized and hard criminals arrested from other neighboring islands, landing sites, and the mainland. We preached the gospel of forgiveness in Matthew 18 and 16prisoners gave their lives to Christ, 6 confessed their sins loud and clear to their fellow prisoners. We donated to them 15 Bibles and 2 boxes of soap, each containing 25 bars.

Traveling to Kalangala island.

KALANGALA CENTRAL POLICE STATION

On the same trip, we visited the police station where suspects are first kept before being taken to prison. We donated five Bibles to help them in curbing down crime.

SEETA POLICE STATION

Seeta has been a blessing to our ministry We’ve been able to preach to them weekly and 34 souls have come to Christ. Each visit has been blessed with a cup of tea and snack for each of the suspects courtesy of Christian Model Ministries.

NTINDA POLICE STATION

Ntinda police station is in Kampala city in Nakawa Division. We visited them on 26th august and we preached the gospel of love and forgiveness to the suspects. 5 people gave their lives to Christ. We give all the glory to Jesus. We gave them 2 bibles to help in reviving the prayer lives. It was our first visit and the police administration gave us the open door.

Giving out bibles at Ntinda police station.

KIBANGA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Kibanga is a church founded school found at Kalangala Island. We ministered to the school girls above 12 years by helping them do reusable pads. Around 120 girls from upper primary learned and were each given 2 free reusable sanitary pads. During the training, the gospel was preached and 75 girls gave their lives to Christ. The school administration requested us to come in more often.

Sharing with pupils at Kibanga primary School.

C-TBS Class

The OT and NT 2019 bible classes have been running since March 2019 and both classes will be ending by the end of October.
The OT class completed the major prophets and now working on the 12 “minor prophets”.
The NT is currently studying the book of Hebrews, to be followed by a few other epistles, then finally the book of revelation.
Both classes continue to be exciting and with students having many encouraging testimonies in regards to the training.

The C-TBS New testament class

We thank the Lord for bringing us this far, and for what he is doing in this nation through our courses, and we are very thankful to the Lord for all the friends standing with us in prayers and through financial support for the ongoing CMM work.

Prisons Ministry

Kisoro Prison.

Kisoro prison is found in Kisoro district in South Western Uganda. It is on the border or Rwanda and Uganda about 520Km from the capital Kampala.

The prison housed 276 prisoners who were from around Kisoro. We gave them 50 bibles in the 4 different local languages. 64 prisoners gave their lives to christ.

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Ndorwa Prison.

This is found in Kabale district still at the border of Uganda and Rwanda. It had 876 prisoners at the time of our visit and they were all from the greater Kigezi in Western Uganda.

We visited them with 23 bibles in two different local languages.

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Seeta Police station

We’ve continued visiting Seeta police station on a weekly basis and the different suspects have continued to receive christ.

We had wonderful time sharing the word of God and snacks on the different occasions, gave out 4 bibles and 28 people gave their lives to christ during the 4 visits for this month.

Kiira road police station.

This is found in Kampala city in the central Uganda. This houses approximately 100 suspects every month before they are presented before the courts of law.

Here we gave out 5 bibles in two different languages. 5 people gave their lives to christ.

Kawempe Police station.

Kawempe police station is found in Kampala city in Kawempe division. It houses around 80 suspects every month from around Kawempe division.

We gave out 5 bibles in two different languages.

Busoga Mission

CMM in partnership with Busoga Anglican missionaries took a dental outreach mission in Kaliro and namutumba districts found in Busoga region in Eastern Uganda.

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The mission lasted for 5 days and activities among others included;

• Door to door evangelism
• Open air gospel crusades
• Christian Movies
• Children ministry
• The dental ministry.

2707 people were ministered to and 836 gave their lives to christ. 108 people with dental problems were attended to.

We gave out 200 bibles to different families.

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Matinza church of Uganda.

Matinza church of Uganda is located in Kisoro district near the Kisoro prison that we had earlier visited that same day. Here we shared with them the word of God.

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C-TBS Report

The old testament class

This class is currently studying (and near completion) 1 +2 Kings. These as mentioned before are studied as one book. Just because 2nd kings is a continuation of the 1st kings story.

2nd kings has been so exciting, eye opening to our students. For the students to be able to relate the back ground information like the captivities of Israel and Judah by Syria + Babylon, the years when those events are taking place, the prophets and their timely messages to both Israel and Judah at different times and how all this relates with the other prophets books etc. It has been such a big eye opener and interesting lesson to our class around this time.

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The New testament class

Here we completed the study of the book of Romans and currently just concluded 1+2 Corinthians. Our students especially having studied the book of Acts are now getting a lot more from the study of the Epistles.

Both classes are exciting and interesting. Please keep praying for these classes for the students and staff in any way the Lord may lead you.

The CMM Sponsored Children

These are soon taking a three weeks break which will lead into the third and final term for this year. We are receiving very positive and encouraging feedback in regards to the performance of all the CMM sponsored children.

We have had some few cases children getting sick during the 2nd term mostly wit typhoid and Malaria but God is good, they are all well and continuing with their studies.

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Thanks you so much to all our friends that are praying with us, encouraging us and supporting the CMM ongoing work in Uganda