Crusades and Evangelism

Olson Girls Short-term Mission Trip to Uganda

Posted on July 7, 2019 by jdegreef

Hello everybody!

My name is Laura and I recently travelled to Uganda with my sister, Erin.

Laura with Young Child

We both had the chance to travel and witness the inner workings of Christian Model Ministries.

While in Uganda, Erin and I toured the various ministries that Christian Model Ministry (CMM) was involved with. This included prisons, churches, children AIDs centers, and youth hubs. We had the opportunity to not only witness these programs, but to also be involved with them.

Erin with School Children

The Saturday program we were able to visit was very inspiring. This program was for children afflicted by AIDS. It helped to treat the children, while providing financial support for their education and even extra help with academics. They also hosted the children every Saturday, teaching the children songs, Bible stories and games. We had the opportunity to help teach them and then serve the kids lunch. We then had time to play with the kids and just have lots of fun with them! It was so great getting to know the kids!

Laura With Children

We had the opportunity to travel to western Uganda to be apart of an international Christian convention. While we were there, we assisted with the children’s program. I, Laura, had the chance to teach a class of twelve children under six years old. It was a fun challenge to teach children that did not speak any English. The children were so welcoming and eager to listen to all that we had to share. This was definitely one of my favourite days of the entire trip.

Erin PReaching

During the convention, we attended the youth oriented portion. We were very excited to hear about the journeys and adventures of the main speaker and some of the youth. However, the youth part of the convention attracted many children, even though there was no program planned for them. We were asked to help entertain the children, and this was definitely a huge highlight.

I, Erin, had worked at a children’s camp the previous summer and so I had I learned many silly campfire songs. I got to teach the 100+ kids a couple silly songs and even how to play “Simon Says.” The language barrier appeared to be nothing as we thrived together, singing our hearts out.

Chilling in the City

We also had the pleasure of spending time with Dan’s wonderful family. We spent time playing soccer, frisbee, basketball, and cuddling their baby, Timothy. Every meal provided an opportunity to converse and gain a deeper understanding of the local culture. The Muwanguzi family became our Ugandan family. We sure miss them all!

Cooking in Uganda

Travelling with Richard

Overall, our favourite part of this trip with meeting all the people. We adored our time getting to know the people from CMM and the many others we were lucky to meet.

Uganda was a beautiful country, definitely including the safari we went on, and we will definitely miss it.

We are so excited to continue to pray for and support CMM, and see how the organization grows and positively influences the community.

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New Year Mega Crusade in Buteleja EOY 2016

Posted on January 23, 2017 by christopherlloydcandell

The CMM Mission Team to Buteleja for the Mega Crusade

Dear Friends,

A happy New Year to you all. This is a brief report on what we at CMM were involved in near and at the end of 2016.

I have to confess that I was supposed to send this earlier but I have been caught up with many things since the year started.

We did the C-TBS Bible class graduation, involving 64 church ministers from thirteen different churches, who completed the NT course in the inductive approach in Bible study. We had two classes running concurrently.

Students (Participants) spoke highly of the course. Our culture is mostly referred to as a non-reading culture, but this course puts a lot of emphasis on personal research of the scriptures.

People come to the classes expecting a lot of lectures, but end up doing more reading than ever. We had many encouraging testimonies from the graduants.

The major program following, was the end of year mission in Butalejja. This too was very exciting and ended up successful.

CMM Praise and Worship in Butelejja

The activities we got involved in were, open air gospel meetings, prayer and individual counseling every morning, visits to the prison to share the gospel, and a good meal with the prisoners.

We also spent time in prayer and intercession for the Butalejja region, as well as ministering to the children and giving out cloth to those who were very needy.

We baptized 27 people among those that gave their lives to Christ.

Richard ministering in a prison in Buteleja.

More than 300 people gave their lives to Christ, and they joined the nearby churches. The prison was very exciting as all the prisoners we met (Excluding the few who were already born again) gave their lives to Christ. Among those was a Muslim ‘Imam’. It was good to leave the prison full of born again Christians.

We are so grateful to the Lord for the prayers and encouragement we have gotten from all our supporters.

We shall soon send out the outline of our 2017 CMM plans.

Thank you so much for your contributions toward what the Lord is doing in Uganda.

God bless,

Dan Muwanguzi and the CMM Team

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2015 New Years Mega Mission Update

Posted on January 31, 2016 by jdegreef

We again had another very exciting and successful end of year mission!

Our programs were similar to the usual ones, and continue to build, including:

Open air Gospel meetings
One to one prayers and counselling
Ministering to the community children
Visiting and ministering to the prison in mates. We also had prepared a good meal to eat together with the prisoners which too was well received. We had a lot of dancing and a very powerful time of praise and worship with the prisoners
Giving out some clothing to very needy people
Visiting and ministering to some Churches
Playing soccer with the community. CMM verses community and this time The CMM team won for the first time!!!

And finally the New years Eve overnight prayers that attracted about 3000 people and all spent the whole of that night praising the Lord, celebrating, listening to the words of scripture and encouragement, and also being entertained by a good number of local Christian music groups .

By the time we left, we had over 230 people who had given their lives to Christ.

One of our goals in these outreaches is to give even those who have never preached in Church or Crusade a chance to teach or preach as part of training and encouraging many into missions. And this too has been so encouraging seeing members doing this and very well.

Richard and friends praising God.

Families gathering in advance of the crusade.

Praise and worship

The audience continues to grow.

Rachel, a teacher and head of CMM’s children ministries.

Again the whole team came home with a lot of joy and full of praise to the Lord.

We are very grateful for the financial support, prayers and encouragement from all our friends that stand with us in these ministries.

God bless,

Dan Muwanguzi

Missionary to Uganda

Director of Christian Model Ministries

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End of July (Western Uganda) Rukungiri – Medical Outreach

Posted on September 20, 2015 by jdegreef

Dear Uganda Partnership Friends;

I have attached some photos that will give you a better idea of what this out reach was like. This outreach took place at the end of July. In a Village called Bwambara, in Rukungiri District. We worked in association with the Anglican Church who were the local hosts of this mission.

Richard did most of the preaching at the crusade. Here he is teaching young children.

Richard did most of the coordinating and Florence led the CMM.

During that week, i was in Eastern Uganda (Soroti) teaching the YWAM DTS. Which also went on well.

Mulago hospital which is the No. One hospital in Uganda voluntarily gave us a team of 26 doctors which included 8 dentists. This is the largest no of doctors we have worked with before on such missions. But for a government institution to pick such interest in the CMM outreaches underlines the impact that the CMM outreaches are having in the communities in this nation.

The Christian Model Ministries Team

But on the same mission, another mission team from Ghana, requested to join us after learning of what we do and most importantly, our medial approach, in sharing the Gospel of Christ in communities and the positive results and at a very minimal coast.

We again had the blessings or go ahead and cooperation from the government local leaders in the district, Like the area Member of parliament and government ministers who come from that area.

The whole team was led by Florence Wanaswa.

One of the medical professionals planning with the CMM team and sharing information.

The team attended to 842 medical cases, 208 were dental and the rest were general. The team treated diseases like Malaria, Cervical cancer screaning, skin diseases, stomach problems, UTI infections etc etc.

We had 346 people give their lives to Christ.

Some of the local people hearing the Gospel and learning God’s truths.

We are so thankful to all our partners, in prayers and financial support.

Than you so much.

God bless;

Dan

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Butaleja Mission Report – September 11th – 13th, 2014

Posted on October 4, 2014 by jdegreef

Dear friends and CMM co workers. This is the summery report of the above mission.

The CMM team of six members, joined with the dentists from Mulago hospital conducted a “Dental” outreach in Butalejja. This again turned out to be very sucessful and interesting. We are so grateful to those that are regularly praying with and for us in these missions.

This was a two day mission. The activities involved:

The dental outreach;
Praying for and counselling individuals;
Sharing the Gospel, on one to one approach;
Ministering to the children;
Meetings with the Local pastors and distributing disciple ship books;
Teaching women how to grow mushrooms.

Many people turned up those two days to get dental treatment, extract the bad teeth and to get dental education. This happened after prayers and sharing with the community – the purpose of such outreach.

Richard working with the dentists before the Buteleja outreach.

Pulling out teeth.

We usually start by teaching the people how to care for their teeth. And this is usually done by the profesional doctors. The idea here is that “prevention is better than curing”

Teaching about caring for teeth.

During the two days, we worked on 328 people that came with tooth related problems. And most of there people had their teeth extracted while a few needed treatment or advise.

Every person we attended to during those two days received a gift of a piece of Colgate and tooth broth. These too were very well received. We had 38 people give their lives to Christ during those one to one sessions of praying, counselling and talking to individuals. In some incidents, there are individuals who came specifically because they wanted to accept Jesus and these could approach any of us with such a request.

Rachel teaching some of the children.

We also had the opportunity to meet with many who had accepted Jesus during our previous visits and we received some exciting testimonies from some of them.

Working together with “Uganda Ministries”, we met with over 45 local pastors from different churches. Our goal in this is to emphasize the significance of discipleship training within our local churches in Uganda. We gave out the Discipleship Books (written by David and Anona Banks) , one for each church. These were very well received and the pastors promised to make good use of these materials.

Rural pastors in Uganda receiving the Disciple training book, one per church.

But besides giving out books, CMM always endevours to maintain good relations with the local pastors in all the areas where we minister. And also emphasise the significance of unity as churches as one of the keys in reaching out to our nation which consists of more than 40 different tribes (Langueges).

Florence Wanaswa and the other CMM ladies taught how to grow mushrooms “professionally” for consumption but also as business. Such is one of projects that every lay person can manage financially but if done well as guided, can be used for home consumption but also for business. Florence met with ladies twice to teach them how to grow mushrooms. CMM will run a mushroom sample project in Butalejja in the next few months to work as a model for those who will pick this up. CMM will also be providing the seedlings, advice, and any other practical help to those who will be interested. The purpose of this is to help more especially the mothers to get some small income out of such projects.

KEY PROGRAMS UP TO END OF THIS YEAR ARE:

19^th October 2014 – will be a Thanks Giving day. We will be inviting all those we have worked with us in different capacities, and all CMM family members will meet at Florencis place (one of the CMM members home). We will praise and worship together, share a “GOOD MEAL’, dance and cerebrate, share testimonies what every good thing that we have seen the Lord doing since we started. And share the future vission of CMM with every one who will be there. Please keep praying with us regarding this.

In later November, we will be visiting Rukungiri with an outreach very similar to that of Butalejja, as outlined above.

And finally, we will go for the end of year Mega missions in Butalejja during the New Years Eve as usual.

Please keep praying with us in regards to those.

The two C-TBS Classes are continuing and going on very well.

CMM Members are so grateful to the Lord for what has happened so far. And look forward for what is yet to happen. We are so thankful.

With much love and greetings;

Dan Muwanguzi

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Providence Team Visits Uganda – Part 2, Visiting and Supporting Local Churches

Posted on May 25, 2014 by jdegreef

The Christian Church in Uganda is large, which is great, but often pastors lack strong Biblical training to guide and support their large congregations.

When the Providence Church Team visited Uganda and CMM, went traveled to remote villages and churches where CMM ministers, whether through supporting local children’s school fees or with Dan Muwanguzi and team providing solid, inductive style, Biblical training.

Here we are visiting with a Pastor and church leaders in Kampala where Dan recently took them through a 6 month Bible training program.

Getting ready to speak at a small church in Moroto, Karamojja region, Northern Uganda.

In most of the churches, half the congregation were small children. This made for a lively worship service for sure!

We handed out Discipleship books, written by John Banks, to rural pastors and church leaders. These books were jammed packed full of scripture, and nicely organized.

We handed out Discipleship books, written by David Banks, to rural pastors and church leaders. These books were jammed packed full of scripture, and nicely organized.

I brought some copies of this book back to Canada and have the electronic version, if anyone wants it, email me at james.degreef@deiyo.com.

A well used Bible in Northern Uganda. The Sunday School Teachers were asking us to bring teaching materials and children’s Bibles when we returned – which we will.

A church in Matugga, just north of Kampala, where we spoke one Sunday and help two days of dental outreaches for the local population.

Saying a big good-bye to a church in Kotido, Karamojja region, Northern Uganda. The pastor is on the left, and many children attend this church. Some of these children go to school under the CMM child school sponsorship program.

It was very encouraging to see the pastors lead their congregations, and they have such vision and passion for their work and their people. It was an honour to visit them and to hopefully work with them and support them in the coming years.

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Providence Team Visits Uganda – Part 1

Posted on April 2, 2014 by jdegreef

Providence Community Church in Oak Bay Canada, sent five adventurers to Uganda for 20 days, to visit Dan and the CMM Team, and to witness firsthand the needs in Uganda, the CMM team at work, and to support, encourage, and participate.

Right from the start, in the planning and preparations, and throughout the trip, God was present, showing his favour and providence in this short-term mission.

The CMM Team were very hospitable, and we felt loved and part of the CMM family right away. Now that we are back in Canada, we dearly miss our Ugandan brothers and sisters.

We left Canada on Wednesday February 13th, flew to Holland on the 14th, and then got into Entebe Uganda on Friday the 15th. So basically two days of travel to get from Victoria Canada to Kampala Uganda. Dan’s family and the CMM team were very kind and gracious in meeting and caring for us. Miriam, Dan’s wife, and Florence, a CMM Team Leader, were great hosts and cooks for us.

Interestingly, although I ate a lot of good food in Uganda, I did end up losing 4 lbs.

The first Sunday, Dan split the Providence Team into two, and we went and preached at two rural churches on the outside of Kampala, and also taught Sunday school.

Chris Regelus was a big hit with the children at the Gombe Church just outside of Kampala. He was a crazy Mzungu, shared a Bible story, and had fun interacting with the children.

Christian Model Ministries conducts crusades and outreaches in Uganda, and one strategy that has proven very effective is to hire a couple Christian dentists to provide free dental care for rural Ugandans. This draws a big crowd, who wait for their dental visit, and they also get to hear the Gospel message and interact with Christians for prayer and counseling.

The CMM team planned two mini Dental outreaches for us to participate in, one in Gombe on the Monday and Tuesday, and one in Matugga on the Wednesday and Thursday. We were amazed out how tough the Ugandans were, getting rotten teeth pulled and other various treatments.

Kurt Hafso is getting ready to administer pain killer to a dentistry patient.

The dentist tools were a bit more crude than what we are used too, but they worked and hopefully we helped relieve much pain people were suffering with. The patients were very thankful for this gift to them.

Four days of ministry, preaching, counseling, prayer, and giving clothing gifts, complimented the dental ministry.

Much clothes, shoes, tooth brushes and toothpaste, toys, and other supplies was donated to our team to bring to Uganda by the Compassionate Resource Warehouse in Victoria BC. This was an amazing gift to the Ugandans. Thank you CRW!

We’ll be posting more on our Uganda Visit over the coming weeks.

Thank you.

Cordially,
James DeGreef (blog poster)
One of Dan’s Canadian Friends

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CMM Outreach Crusade to Butaleja – Finishing 2013 Preaching God’s Word

Posted on January 25, 2014 by jdegreef

This is the report regarding the Butaleja year-end Mega mission.

The whole CMM team of nine people went together with other members from local churches but mostly from the Searchlight of God Church in Kampala. We were all together a team of about 42 people.

We all stayed in one three bedroom house, sharing one bathroom and toilet. The team does all the cooking for ourselves, fetching water, keeping house and place clean, on top of the mission programs during the four days 27th Dec-1st Jan 2014. It was all fun.

The CMM Butelaja Outreach Team and supporting people from Searchlight of God and other local churches.

Our goal was to minister to the Butaleja church and community, but also to provide an opportunity (create a platform) for individuals from local churches to participate and test out being a missionary.

Activities involved include:

Open air Gospel meetings every afternoon.
Visiting prisons.
Visiting hospitals or the sick.
Ministering to community children.
Running leadership seminars for church leaders.
Praying with the Butalejja community into the New Year’s Eve.
Giving out some clothing to the needy.
Showing the Jesus’s film and other films.
Playing soccer and netball with the community.
Visiting and encouraging some local churches.
Baptizing those who give their lives to Jesus.
Praying for and counseling individuals who come to crusades.

All the mentioned activities went on well, and were very successful.

This time, we also did open up a brand new church under the name of “Christian Model Fellowship Butaleja”. One school provided a big hall as they saw this church as an answer to persevering prayer. The chairman, and the board of directors of that school mentioned that church needs to be at the very centre of their school programs and all Christian children in that school plus other members will be part of the fellowship. This was a huge blessing from God!

Speaking to the gathered crowd in Butaleja.

During these four days in Butaleja, more than 130 people gave their lives to Christ. The team prayed and counseled many individuals who came with different prayer items. We baptized 27 people. We visited 5 different churches to encourage and followup on those who have been converted during previous crusades to Buteleja.

We baptized new believers in a local river in Butaleja.

The inmates in the prison were so excited receiving us. They lead in praise and worship and one of us shared the Word of God. Others shared some testimonies then afterwards, and we share some “snarks” – sodas and chapatis. One Muslim inmate gave his life to Christ. We also prayed and counseled one to one with each of the inmates.

Ministry at a prison in Butaleja.

Soccer and Netball – it was the CMM team verses the Butaleja community team and in both games, the CMM team lost to the community team !!! Our goal here is to mix with the community for fun and socializing.

Soccer in Butaleja.

We had a leadership seminar, and the highlight on this was that we CMM had invited friends of mine, missionary from the UK David Banks. His emphasis in ministry in Uganda is Discipleship training. David had written a very good discipleship manual. Very simplified with with excellent Discipleship content. On that occasion, more than seventy Discipleship books were distributed freely to each (One book per church). The church leaders were so much encouraged.

Teaching God’s word and Biblical principals to leaders.

The New Years event was also an exciting and encouraging event. Many gave their lives to Christ that evening, many many people turned up for the overnight prayers that were led by the CMM team throughout the whole night. Some people traveled on foot a very far distance to come and attend. Places like bars and other disco places in town had to close as the majority of the community people preferred prayers and cerebrating with us on the Butaleja community outreach.

Ministering to the children in Butaleja.

The whole team left on the 1st Jan 2014 to return home with a lot of excitement and gratefulness to the Lord Jesus Christ for what has happened in the four days we stayed in Butaleja.

We would like to thank everyone that stood with us in prayers and finances.

May the Lord richly bless you much more.

God Bless;

Dan Muwanguzi

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New Year 2012 Crusade to Butaleja Uganda

Posted on January 8, 2013 by jdegreef

To bring in the New Year, Dan and his Christian Model Ministries team have been planning and preparing for a big ministry training and outreach program. When Dan was in Victoria he was explaining the concept to me, and had dubbed it a MEGA CRUSADE.

Essentially, the concept was from December 28th to the 31st 2012, in the mornings, Dan and his team would be teaching and organizing local pastors and other Christians, and then during the day they would be doing outreach to schools, hospitals, and prisons. This would then culminate with an all night worship service December 31st, ushering in the New Year.

The crusade was in Butaleja District of Uganda, which is a very remote district in Eastern Uganda near Kenya. Travel to Butaleja from Kompala takes many hours, through windy roads, fields, and the outback of Uganda.

Many young children in Butaleja participating in the crusade.

In Butaleja, there were many young children, and so the New Years crusade engaged and ministered to the young children there.

A big focus of the work was open air crusades in Butaleja.

One of the chief aims in the outreaches was giving individuals an opportunity to minister as part of their training. This was an answer to prayer as many young ministers became leaders and engaged in the crusades with vigor and passion.

With the 0pen air crusades, more than 200 people gave their lives to Christ!

Much pray and planning lead to success.

The Christian Model Ministries had brought clothe supplies, for distribution to the needy in Butaleja.

Many kids came to listen to the Gospel and to receive some cloth. And many gave their lives to Jesus during the days CMM ministered in Butaleja.

According to Dan Muwanguzi:

“We prayed and discussed a lot regarding the team unity. We kept like 10 people in one room because we don’t have big accommodation. We did the cooking, fetched water a distance of one kilometer on foot with jerrycans, we cut the fire wood for cooking, we were more than 40 people, but … we use one latrine and one bathroom . It is basically more like Ugandan camping life. Despite all those, God kept our team together with vision and passion.“

Also, providing food at the crusade helped meet people’s felt needs and create a feeling of community.

“We all woke up as team at 5.00 a.m and had one and a half hours of prayer, communication, and planning each morning. Then we all went for different work duties until 8.30am. We then took breakfast and left our location by 10.00 am for different ministries. Came back for lunch at 1.00 pm them went for afternoon ministries including the crusade by 3.00 pm. Then we came home at 8.00 pm , had dinner. Lights (Candles) out by 10.00.”

Each day, in preparation for outreach, the CMM team would teach local ministers and Christians.

Dan Muwanguzi Teaching Christian pastors and other leaders, in preparation for outreach.

Overall, God blessed Christian Model Ministries efforts. New converts were introduced to local churches.

The Christian Model Ministries is planning to return to Butaleja in July of 2013, with a principal aim of connecting with the new converts and to continue the work they started here this New Years.

The MEGA CRUSADE ended with an all night celebration of Jesus Christ.

Thank you for reading this post and we appreciate your interest and support in Dan, Uganda, and Christian Model Ministries.

Cordially,
James DeGreef
One of Dan’s Canadian Friends

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