Our friends and co-workers in Christ Jesus, We are delighted for the Great and Mighty works that God by his grace has enabled us to carry out in June as narrated below.
PRISON MINISTRY
MBARARA MAIN PRISON We visited Mbarara main prison four times and were mainly rehabilitating, counselling and praying with the inmates and preaching the word of God to them. We had a final session with them of self-discovery and inner healing. On 19th June, we graduated the first phase of inmates whom we had spent four months training. The session was officiated and led by Dan Muwanguzi. We had a great time of praise and worship, testimonies, and had a meal together. We donated three sewing machines to help the graduands continue their walk of recovery with the tailoring skills. We gave each prisoner who participated in the session were given a bible and a certificate. We thank God.
BUTOLO PRISON.
The above prison is found in Kamengo in Mpigi district 78km from Kampala city. We visited the prison found 87 prisoners all men. We gave each of a bible to read in their own language (LUGANDA).
KANONI PRISON
We visited the above prison, we donated 133 bibles to the prison. Kanoni prison is found in Gomba district 128km from the city.
MUDUMMA PRISON
The above prison is also in Mpigi district. We visited it on 30th June and we found 162 prisoners all me. We were given a chance of preaching to the prisoners and 68 gave their lives to Christ. We donated some soap, bibles and drinks. We thank God for the harvest
Dan Muwaguzi and Richard Byamugisha while donating the sewing machines to the prisons
FAMILY FELLOWSHIPS
Every Tuesday morning we visit many families and always pray for them. We thank God for the miracles of jobs, healing, and his manifestation in this ministry especially what he has performed in the families we have visited.
During one of the family visitations with Richard Byamugisha
GOAT REARING PROJECT.
Earlier this year, we met with parents and guardians of the sponsored kids and we planned for how to increase their house hold income. We all agreed that goat rearing would be ideal so we planned to empower 20 families with goats to help raise the household income. By God’s grace, 4 goats have been donated by our Director Mr. Dan Muwanguzi . We look forward to more resources and helping the remaining 16 families.
Dan Muwanguzi and Richard During the goat donationsto the families
THE WALK FOR MEN.
We led a group of 123 people for the WALK FOR MEN. It was a ten-day walk from Mbarara to Kampala. We walked under the THEME. “PROVERBS 20:7”. During the journey, we were able to be interviewed by different media houses. Our final destination was Namugongo Martyrs shrine where 45 men were killed for their being Christians. We thank God for the strength, provision and protection on the way.
Richard with the men marching to Kampala
MEN MINISTRY
The men’s ministry has grown with so many men coming for weekly meetings. Around 200 men are meeting in 8 churches and the number is steadily growing. We have been able to raise more leaders who are now running the fellowships around the city. We thank God for the Karugangama men’s fellowship that is always meeting every Saturday. In the same fellowships, the men are now in church, families are restoring, marriages are reconciling, ministers are being raised.
We continually pray for you and your families. Thank you for always supporting and praying for us in everything.
We welcome you to the month of May, these have been our activities for this month.
PRISON MINISTRY
Our prison ministry thrives on very well. We continue to visit police stations and prisons to meet Officers and inmates preaching the word of God, praying, counselling and sharing supplies with them.
RUTI POLICE STATION. Every Tuesday, we visit and preach to suspects and many give their lives to Christ.
MBARARA CENTRAL STATIONS, every Friday and we preach to 104 suspects of which 82 gave their lives to Christ.
MBARARA MAIN PRISON, every Wednesday and we were doing counselling on the sexual offenders who are both condemned or remanded. The session has been going on for the last 6 months and we are seeing great testimonies.
FAMILY MINISTRY
We visit many families upon request to be create or rekindle their family altars. We have developed a program that helps us at least meet 2 families in a week. We share the word of God, preach ,pray and eat together.
Richard Byamugisha with some of the families during the visit
MEN FELLOWSHIP
We had the vison to bring men together and praise, worship, pray and hear from God. We have had that particular ministry for the last two years and many marriages have grown stronger, others have reconciled in tears and many other testimonies. we have visited 3 families and 2 churches raising the altar of men meeting around 500 men in all at a heart to heart altar. We thank God for the great work.
Byamugisha Richard with Some of the men during the fellowships
THE MAN WALK
Christian model ministries in partnership with the Anglican church in Mbarara, Ankole Diocese to be specific organized a YEAR OF MEN with different activities tailored to help men come or return to church and back to their families.
THE BACKGROUND ABOUT THE YEAR OF MEN
We wrote a letter in 2023 appealing to churches to join the crusade of bringing men to their positions. The letters were accepted by the Anglican administration and the plan kicked was kicked off with the designation of 2024 as the YEAR FOR MEN AND THE BOY CHILD.
Different activities were designed and highlighted like, the matching in MBARARA CITY, THE MARATHON, THE CONFERENCES and others.
Ankole diocese embraced it and made its running in their 584 churches.
On 15th April, we matched in the city with the band and great music calling all the men to come back to their responsibilities. We were led by the Bishop of Ankole Diocese Rt. Rev. Sheldon Mwesigwa. The walk attracted around 5000 men and 1000 boys from different schools. The walk was so significant and so many people accepted Jesus. We hope to raise the same awareness in different churches and Dioceses.
We plan to continue to walk 300km between Mbarara city to Kampala city to create awareness in the whole country.
The Men walk in Mbarara. Richard waving a support cloth.
RADIO MINISTRY
Our radio broadcast program still continues smoothly, we have been able to preach and hold discussions on the REVIVAL RADIO thrice in a month and each session takes two hours. This month, we mainly talked about the YEAR OF MEN, AND BOY CHILD. We bless the Almighty for the masses that were reached.
ELDERLY WOMEN VISITS
We visited two elderly women, Nakimwero Alice Babirye -98years Old and Nakiyingi Esteri 75years Old battling a kidney disease. Both Live in their different homes on a remote village of Kijjudde. We took them food items and bought them some groceries and medical supplies. We preached to them the word of God and also prayed for them, we also gave some insights to their care takers about taking care of the elderly people very well and both families where all happy.
Racheal Kalembe Seated with the elderly women during the visitations.
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES (C- TBS)
It’s is such a great opportunity to be able to study and teach the word of God to the church in Uganda.
Currently, we are having two classes and both are going on very well.
We have a class at God’s Centre of Blessings Bweyogerere, now studying the book of numbers. And another class at Kagoma studying the book of Genesis.
We are always recieving encouraging testimonies and feedback from the students.
Most of them sharing how the Bible class has simplified and motivated their church sermon preparation and presentation.
Long Distant C-TBS classes
Please keep praying with us, we are considering taking this Bible training course to distant places, currently looking at western and eastern Uganda.
We already received some invitations from some of the Pastors in those areas. we had hesitated mostly because of the involved costs and other logistics.
But now we are venturing in a distant Bible training class say later this year or early 2025.
Dan Muwanguzi with Andrew Kiwanuka , C-TBS students and teachers During a session and after the class
We thank you for your continuous prayers and dedicated support.
Dear friends and co-workers in Christ. Greetings to you all. Thankyou for your continuous prayers and encouragement to us. This is our latest ministry report.
PRISON MINISTRY
MBARARA MAIN PRISON
We were allocated every Wednesday to meet the inmates especially the sexual offenders section. It started like a class but later became a church where salvation and deliverance is preached every Wednesday. We thank God for the opportunity to help prisoners understand the value of the life that Jesus paid for on the cross.
KYAZANGA PRISON
On Good Friday we visited Kyazanga prison to celebrate the death of Christ on the cross for us. We carried food and drinks. We preached the gospel. We prepared a meal, beef and rice, and fed 150 prisoners with the prion wardens. Then we preached the gospel of hope and 139 prisoners gave their lives to Christ and majority of them were Muslims.
CENTRAL POLICE STATION MBARARA
Mbarara central police station has also been a wide door opened for our ministry every Saturday of the week and by God’s grace we have been able to minister diligently. Through the month of March, around 200 souls came to Christ. Very many get released and we hook up with them. We bless the Almighty for the open door to increase the population of heaven as we depopulate hell.
Richard Byamugisha helping to serve food and water during the prison ministry outreach
FAMILY MINISTRY.
We started a family ministry that deals with marriages, youth, children, women and men. We have weekly meetings for men and women and the Lord has transformed so many lives thus restoring marriages. This month alone we held 6 men’s fellowships in different churches and 4 women meetings. CMM has trained people as leaders to start more small groups of men and women in different churches since the hunger and thirst for them is too much.
We also held marrieds’ fellowship that brought 64 couples for a full day. We had a great day talking about how to build the marriages that God desires. Many people opened up on the issues that are killing their marriages and are still reconciling in the subsequent meetings.
During one of the family gatherings held
HOME VISITS FOR PRAYER ALTARS
We introduced home prayer altars in response to people’s call for home visits. so, we partnered with Karugangama church and had a full month visiting different homes every morning fellowshipping and praying with them. Each of the home visited could invite their neighbors regardless of the denomination. Many people have come to Christ including Muslims. We hope to adopt the visits at least twice a week because the 28 families we visited didn’t remain the same again.
One of the families we visited to pray with them during the family prayer altar visit
RADIO MINISTRY
We have been blessed to have the gospel preached on REVIVAL RADIO found in Mbarara city in Western Uganda. We were given the 2 hours to talk about the TOPIC; BOY CHILD. We used the opportunity to help families bring men and boys back to their position which the devil pulled them from. We had a beautiful moment and got feedback from the listeners in the last 30 minutes of the session.
Richard Byamugisha during the radio show in Mbarara
EASTER FOOD DONATIONS AND GIVE AWAYS
We had a Easter food donation to the poor ,hungry and windows in the community. We donated hampers to 12 families that had rice, sugar, soap, salt, and chicken. We look forward to doing it more and more as long as the Lord provides.
Richard and Molly Byamugisha handing out the food hampers to the widows and needy during the easter food donations
BUNYONYI COMMUNITY OUTREACH
We went to Bunyonyi community in western Uganda where we preached door to door with a team from MATUGGA Secondary School. We distributed clothes, scholastic materials, food stuffs to the people. we played with the children and taught them the word of God.
Racheal Kalembe and Mrs Diana Kato during the Bunyonyi outreach visit interacting with the children and giving them clothes.
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES ( C-TBS )
We are currently running two classes. At Kagoma, we are running a bible class once every week. This class has young men and women learning skills in computer software under a company called Odyssey Technologies.
Most of the students in this class are also ministers and leaders in the various churches where they come from. We have a group that is very eager to learn and always make very good contributions especially during the class discussions.
And the old testament class at the God’s Center of Blessing Church currently studying the book of Exodus. This is a group of pastors and church ministers from various churches who completed to New Testament in 2023.
This year 2024 on the 9th June, we shall be giving out certificates ( Graduating) to the students who completed the New Testament and the Old Testament in 2023. We would usually give out such certificates in the same year that the students finish but we got caught up with a number of things last year so we did push the graduation for both classes this year.
Kato Edward ( C-TBS teacher ) teaching the C-TBS class at God’s Center of Blessings church Bweyogerere
We are always thankful to the Lord for what he is doing in this nation and church in particular through the C-TBS training programs.
Thank you so much to all our friends standing with us in prayer and financial support for this ministry and all other CMM programs.
Greetings to you our family, friends, and partners. We are looking forward to the new outreaches and missions with excitement, enthusiasm, and hope. We have held various meetings to strategize, maximize, and utilize every opportunity we encounter to reach out to the ends of the country with the good news of the Gospel and share the love of Jesus, with the various communities and individuals in our nation Uganda. These are the activities for January and February.
KARAMOJA OUTREACH
Immediately after the Butalejja mission, we visited Karamoja and celebrated the New Year with them. On the same trip, we met the kids who are growing in stature and wisdom and are becoming a great asset to the Karamoja and their families. Many have gone to the next level of education this year, from primary to secondary. Those who did their primary leaving Examinations performed well and are already enrolled in secondary schools. We thank God for this achievement.
Richard During the Karamoja outreach mission
We were able to also meet one of our kids who has excelled to university, She is studying a Bachelors in Human Resources Management.
Dan, Racheal, Richard with Nakong Esther( wearing green /black )
PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN’s CAMP
We arranged a preschool children’s camp in January. Many kids are still always home before school resumes. We organized for a camp that had great teachers, games, interactions, and food. We received close to 200 kids. we preached the gospel and taught them. We thank God for the ministry and plan to continue with it since we have a minister for it handling youth and children. We thank God for the grace to reach the new generation.
snacking with the children during the camp
YOUTH MINISTRY
Like the above, we had a youth seminar that attracted 48 youth who were taught by great teachers. We taught them about abstinence, social media, and patience. many gave their lives to Christ. We also held the DAD–SON talk where we invited all the boys in the church and their fathers. We held a great talk for both and started the bridging relationships between parents and their sons. We realized that boys were not talking to their dads and thus faced different challenges.
MARRIEDS MINISTRY
Since Last year, this has become a turning point for families after engaging in family ministry. It has given birth to men’s fellowships, women’s fellowships, and married seminars. This month began with weekly meetings for men and Women. We currently collaborate with six churches having active monthly fellowship meetings. We look forward to having more meetings this year.
The marrieds during their fellowship
RADIO MINISTRY
The radio ministry in Mbarara city still thrives and currently reaches the 10 districts of Ankole which have a huge population. We were mainly sharing about marriage and family. We look forward to more radio and television programs on marriage and other ministries.
Richard and Molly Byamugisha during the radio broadcast
DONATIONS
We received a consignment of clothes from our friends and partners. We distributed them to some community members who were lacking. We preached the word of God to them and many gave their lives to Jesus
Mothers and their children receiving clothes during the donation
PRISON / POLICE MINISTRY
The prison ministry is still very vibrant in Western Uganda. We had two prison visits, Mbarara main prison, and Bwera Prison in Kasese.
We preached and shared some refreshments to the prisoners. In Mbarara, we met 178 prisoners who are on sexual offenses, rape and aggravated defilement. We shared and preached the gospel to them and many gave their lives to Jesus Christ.
In Kasese, we ministered to 221, and 173 got born again. We also shared with them some refreshments and look forward to visiting the station again. We also visited the Central Police Station of Mbarara thrice and ministered to around 200 people, 73 of whom gave their lives to Christ.
KYANKWAZI OUTREACH MISSION
We carried out an outreach in the region of kyankwanzi where we met pastors and church ministers of the region to pray and teach them how to grow in outreaches and missions. we prayed and counseling for children who were going back to school as well. We also visited local churches in Kyankwanzi where we encouraged people who were giving up on salvation. we found a church that fellowships under a tree.
Racheal Kalembe duringa fellowship/service session and also training kids in their preparation for returning to schoolat the Kyankwanzi outreach
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES ( C-TBS)
This year 2024,the C-TBS class at Mukono has had a few books to complete their Old Testament class which they started in 2023.
The class at God’s Center of Blessings Bweyogerere also has had to complete the book of revelation which they did by late February. This class at Bweyogerere will start the Old Testament studies on the 2nd of April. The C-TBS class has been holding several meetings and praying in preparation for the 2024 bible training classes.
Some of the stuff have been visiting various churches with in the areas of Mukono and Bweyogerere introducing the C-TBS Bible Training course to more churches.
The Bible class at Kagoma will run along side a VTS computer software class has also resumed and we are now studying the book of Galatians. This week we were looking at chapter 2 & 3 of Galatians where Paul bases his argument on the Old Testament scriptures. Justification is by faith in Jesus Christ and not by the works of the Law.
And we had very interesting and encouraging feedback and contributions from our students regarding the above subject of justification by faith.
Our class at Kagoma is so happy and excited about what they are discovering and what God is speaking to us as we keep studying the scriptures.
Dan Muwanguzi with the C-TBS staff during a meeting
We are grateful to the Lord for such an opportunity to be part of what God is doing in the nation and church in Uganda today.
We are very thankful to you our friends for standing with us with us in prayers and financial support of all our CMM programs.
Many are giving their lives to Christ, and many are being encouraged and helped by the learning and teaching the word of God.
As we close the year, we are excited for the missions and outreaches that happened. Below are our recent ministry engagements in the moths of November and December. We thank you for the continuous prayers and support towards our activities as Christian Model Ministries.
PRISON MINISTRY
a.MBARARA MAIN PRISON Mbarara main prison has become our ministry home and we have consistently visited the facility and found sexual offenders whom we were given to take through the SELF REFLECTION process that has lasted for 6 months now. Many prisoners have been able to come to Christ. We glorify the Almighty for the great opportunity. b.KYAZANGA PRISON Kyazanga priosn is found in Lwengo District along Kampala –Masaka road 3hrs drive from Kampala city. We visited the prison on 8th November and found 79 prisoners all men to them.
c.BUBUKWANGA PRISON The above prison is found in Bundibujjo district which in Western Uganda behind Rwenzori Mountain. That place is at the Border of Democratic Republic of Congo and has many relatives across the border. The district is occupied by the Bamba, Bakonjo, Babwisi and Batooro. They mainly read Lubwisi language which has the New Testament bible only and Rutooro. We visited the facility on preached to 354 prisoners. Around 200 prisoners gave their lives to Christ. The church under the leadership of Bishop Tibeijuka pledged to do weekly visits as requested by the Officer in Charge.
Richard Byamugisha during the outreaches at the various prisons and police stations
BUTALEJJA END OF YEAR OUTREACH
We crowed the year with an outreach in Butalejja as always where we held evangelism and outdoor open air gospel meetings. Community cleaning search as at Lelesi trading center. Men and Women empowerment fellowships(we taught women how to make snacks which they can sell to earn a living. Some of women are single mothers and others are the breadwinners in their families.) we distributed Clothes and Preaching good news to everyone. Many received Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior.
Florence Wanaswa and Racheal Kalembe who led the team for the Butalejja End of Year Outreach and the various activities activities (Cleaning trading center, clothes donations, counselling, training to cook and church service)
CHURCH BASED TRAING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES( C-TBS )
All our 3 Bible Training classes took a break during the 2nd week of December and shall kick off in 2024 in the 3rd week of January.
At closure, we had a New Testament Class run at God’s Center of Blessings Church -(Bweyogerere) which will have 4 more weeks to complete the New Testament and right away start the Old Testament.
The Old Testament Class at Mukono Deliverance Church have 2 more weeks to complete the Old Testament studies.
This New year 2024,we are looking at expanding our pastors training courses to other distant places. we are prayerfully looking at options of the invitations that we have so far. we will appreciate your prayers as we get into all those opportunities of ministry in 2024.
Dan Muwanguzi with pastors who inquired about joining a C-TBS class after a briefing
We are always thankful to the Lord for you our friends that always stand with us in prayers and financial support in all that we do as Christian Model Ministries, we pray that the Lord will bless you much more, and give you more strength and wisdom in all you do in the new year 2024.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. (Romans 12:12-13).
Thank you our partners, co-workers and friends for serving with us to be the feet and hands of Jesus unto the people and communities of Uganda. Here are our activities for the months of September & October.
PRISON MINISTRY
Prison ministry continues to happen in Mbarara city and Western Uganda. Each month we are allowed to minister to suspects and inmates. This month we visited the following prisons;
MBARARA MAIN PRISON
Found in heart of Mbarara city in Western Uganda. We have been ministering in the above facility since April this year. We visit this prison every Wednesday and meet the suspects and inmates including sexual offenders who are both convicted and on remand. We have sessions with them up to 3 months now with each month handling a different theme. This month’s theme was about CONFESSION. Many prisoners confessed their pain and prayed to God for forgiveness. (facility houses 273 prisoners)
I can quote three prisoners who confessed
AMOS
Imprisoned for defilement. He’s serving an 18yr sentence. I quote his testimony “I used to work as a taxi driver and had a group of my fellow drivers who led me to having multiple affairs with different women. As time went on, I married a wife and we got 3 kids. Due to the social/ peer pressure I continued with the habit of sleeping around. On the fateful day, I picked a secondary school girl whom I later knew that she was 16yrs of age and took her to a Guesthouse. And was caught red-handed and imprisoned.
DEOGRACIOUS
He is in fifties and was a farmer
“I lived a simple life in the village doing subsistence farming and I had no grudge with anyone. But as life brings different copies, I realized that someone wanted my land which was the source of my livelihood. When he failed to convince me to sell it to him, he connived with different people and I found myself being framed for defiling his 5yr old daughter. It was shocking but he had all the trust in the doctor who would test the victim. To my surprise, the doctor got a bribed and wrote a wrong report about him which became a sealing evidence for my imprisonment. I was planning that if I’m released, I will kill the doctor in the revenge of my imprisonment but I have forgiven him.”
PHILLIP
Hes in late forties
“I have a great family and was raised with a religious a religious background. I later developed a drinking habit of drinking that I even abandoned my precious family. One day I went in the bar and drunk myself silly. In the morning, I found myself at the police station with people shouting kill him, kill him. I was later told that a raped a woman. The truth is that I don’t know anything at all. Thanks to God I’m now born again.”
With the above testimonies, we hope to rehabilitate many souls both in prison and outside. The prisoners in their own voice requested that we should help them have a safe landing in their life after prison life.
b. SANGA PRISON
This is located in Kiruhura district along Masaka- Mbarara road. We have been ministering in the above prison since last year March. We preached to 72 prisoners, 53 of them gave their lives to Christ.
c. CENTRAL POLICE STATION
We have been able to visit this station each week of this month and many souls came to Christ. We always preach to about 320 suspects and inmates.
Some of the prisoners on truck, cells and cleaning their compounds
MEN’S MINISTRY
Men’s ministry has also picked up in Mbarara city with a huge attendance. During the month of October, we have managed to organize 6 fellowships in 4 different churches. All those fellowships have been entirely facilitated by Christian model ministries. We look forward to extending the ministry to more churches and districts. Men gather and share life stories, wisdom and knowledge of how to develop themselves (spiritually, financially and any other aspects.)
During the Various men fellowships and sessions.
KASESE MISSION.
We visited Kahendero Landing site which is on Lake George and ministered to the fishermen and the church. That was done as follow up of the June mission. We were gladly welcomed. we preached the word of God (evangelism) and many people received Jesus Christ as their lord. We also started a Men’s fellowship in the church as well.
Richard Byamugisha preaching the word of God .during the Kasese outreach
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES( C-TBS )
The Old Testament class at the Discipleship Church -Mukono.
The New Testament class at God’s Center of Blessings Church Bweyogerere
Odyssey class at Kagoma – Maganjo
As we come near the end of 2023,we thank God for what he continues to do in the lives of our students and their church congregations through this bible course.
One of our interesting highlights of this year are some of our students (pastors) in our classes who are already using the inductive approach “to some extent” during their bible studies.
These have always testified that bible study within their churches has improved a lot. These pastors have encouraged their church congregations to consider reading bible books as a whole, as a start.
Then they look at some of the passages together but also considering the ” historical background” information of that particular book.
The pastors are saying that the C-TBS has simplified and strengthened their work within their congregations. We thank the Lord for that.
The Odyssey C-TBS class at Kagoma (Left). Dan Muwanguzi grading the students work (Right).
We are always thankful to the Lord for you all our friends and co-workers for your continuous prayers and support to us.
We thank God for this month, we thank him for you our co-workers in Christ Jesus for your continuous prayers and support towards Christian Model Ministry outreaches and works. These have been the various ministry activities carried out this month.
PRISON MINISTRY
We are thankful to God for the opportunity to preach to the prisoners during the prisons outreach in MBARARA MAIN PRISON. We were allowed to preach to the prisoners weekly to rehabilitate them so that they leave transformed people once they have served their terms.
Many prisoners have repented for their behaviors and the administration is happy with our work. All prisoners from all religions are encouraged to attend and we preach to them the word of God, share bibles and some accepted supplies to them for their daily use.
CENTRAL POLICE STATION
We have continued to preach in the Central Police Station every weekend. During this month, we get themed topics that we share with the inmates to help rehabilitate them such include;
Ignorance
Disobedience
Peer pressure
God’s timing
Curses
We met around 300 suspects of which some were bailed out and others proceeded to court.
Richard Byamugisha Sharing theword of God with the prisoners during the outreach.
KARAMOJA KIDS
The CMM kids in Karamoja were broke off from school for the school holidays successfully and are awaiting for their last school term to conclude the year scheduled to start towards end of September.
Nakong Esther one of our CMM kids who successfully completed high school at Matugga Hills School has been admitted to the GULU university where she is going to pursue Bachelors Degree in Human Resource management.
Opio Emmanuel another CMM child is also finishing his motor vehicle repairing course by the end of this year is now able to disable and assemble the car engine and repair it successfully.
We Celebrate our CMM children for this mile stone and we thank you our partners and friends for your continued support towards karamoja children.
MOROTO OUTREACH MISSION
We partnered with Divine Care Ministries and reached out to Lokeriaut village in Nadunget sub country Moroto rural in Northern part of Uganda. We ministered to the women ,youth and the children, sharing the word of God , giving hope to widowed women whose husbands died in the cattle rustling raids and tribal conflicts. We prayed with them, shared items such as food, clothes and supplies such as soap and toothpaste with them. We played with the children and the youth Many gave their lives to Jesus Christ.
Racheal Kalembe with the moroto women,youth and children during the outreach
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES
We are currently running three bible classes at 3 different locations. Each of these 3 classes is exciting and encouraging.
The Old Testament class conducted at Mukono Deliverance church is currently studying the book of Jeremiah.
The vocational training team located at Kagoma studying software are also studying the book of Deuteronomy.
The New Testament class conducted at Bweyogerere God’s Centre of Blessings Church is currently studying the book of 1st and 2nd Corinthians.
It has always been and such an eye opener as we study the bible books using “the inductive approach”. We have always received testimonies of how this course has simplified the preaching and teaching work of the pastors in various churches and improved in their ” bible study” church programs.
Dan Muwanguzi Standing pose with the Kagoma Odyssey VTS / C-TBS class. Kato Edward teaching the C-TBS New Testament Class at Bweyogerere.
We are so grateful to the Lord for such an opportunity as this and to all our supporters, co-workers in Christian Model Ministries. Thank you so much for your usual prayers and support.
We thank God for the grace and enablement to serve by placing us in ministry and be a part of what he is doing especially in this nation Uganda.. During these months of June & July, below are the activities we carried out.
POLICE MINISTRY
We have consistently visit the police stations but mostly Central Police station Mbarara. We were permitted to visit the police facility one a week and speak to the suspects which we did effectively. During this month, we managed to visit the station four times meeting around 300 suspects in all the visits with around 78% accepting Jesus as their personal savior. We bless the Lord for the grace to minister to the hopeless souls.
a. MBARARA CENTRAL POLICE & PRISON Mbarara main prison permitted us to preach to the prisoners the first Tuesday of the month. The above prison has more than 1000 prisoners both on remand and condemn. We were able to preach to around 400 prisoners since others were in different errands. We bless the Almighty for the salvation of prisoners and the greatness in reaching to them. Many people gave their lives to Christ and others renewing their relationship with Christ. we donated some wheat flour, cooking oil and salt . b. KAMPALA CENTRAL POLICE STATION. ON 20TH JULY in partnership with ALLSAINTS CHURCH NAKASERO, we visited the above station that is found in the heart of Kampala city and preach to around 200 suspects. Being in the middle of the city, it receives many lawbreakers from all social classes. We preached the gospel of salvation and 32 gave their lives to Christ. We bless the Almighty for the bounty harvest from the police cells.
RWENSHAMA FISHING VILLAGE MISSION
Rwenshama fishing village is found on the lake shores of Lake Edward in Rukungiri district South Western Uganda. It’s entirely surrounded by Queen Elizabeth National Game Park with its waters bordering Democratic Republic Of Congo. We were invited by local pastors to help them evangelize to the fishermen. On 12th July, we visited the place and did much of pilot study for future big gatherings and preached to the locals in the process. We saw many souls embracing the gospel and requesting for a week’s crusade.
Richard praying and fellowshipping with the people
MARRIEDS MINISTRY
The marrieds ministry has picked momentum. The men fellowship every Saturday and the women every Friday . Each of the sessions are entirely coordinated by Christian model ministries. Richard represented us in the Provincial men’s conference in Namugongo Kampala that attracted 3000 men around Uganda. He was given the opportunity to address the men and tell them our vision as Christian model ministries.
Richard and Molly Byamugisha during the marrieds meeting.
ALL SAINTS CHURCH NAKASERO GOSPEL MISSION
The above church is the biggest Anglican Church in Kampala city which also houses the office of Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Uganda. We started partnering with them in 2021 and have been supportive in some of our activities. We were invited to join them in their annual mission which was between 16th July to 23rd July under the theme ‘HOLISTIC REDEMPTION’ ROMANS 8:16-25. We did the following activities a. SCHOOL VISITS We visited different schools in different level, primary, High school and tertiary institutions praying for students ,preaching and teaching them the word of God.
Richard Byamugisha with the students during the schools visit
KASESE HAMUKUNGU & KAHENDERO LANDING SITE MISSION OUTREACH
We went to two landing sites of Hamukungu and Kahendero landing sites, preached door to door evangelism in the morning because that is when the fishermen return from their catch. We preached to the children and shared a snack with them, they were excited. All went well but I can’t forget when we narrowly survived the elephant stampede when we had just landed at Kahendero. The elephants move freely even in people’s compounds. One of them came to our compound.
Racheal Kalembe During the mission to Kasese (Hamukungu and Kahendero landing sites )
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES ( C-TBS)
We are currently running 3 Bible classes in 3 different locations. We have 19 old Testament students in both schools from 8 different churches and 17 New testament students from 5 different churches.
One of the outstanding testimonies from some of our students is that as they study the bible books in our classes, they at the same time teach the same books in their church bible study programs and also encourage their church congregation to read and study bible books as a whole.
Dan Muwanguzi Teaching in the C-TBS Class
And I would love to thank you so much for standing with us in prayers and for the financial support to me and my family.
We thank God for these months and these were are activities that have been happening .
EASTER FOOD DONATION
On Good Friday, we donated a Easter humper package to 12 families that needed something to eat . These included;
* the elderly * the widows * the single mothers
* the sick * the crippled
The package had the following items;
5kgs of rice
3kgs of sugar
A loaf of bread
A bar of soap
4 packets of salt
A dozen of matchbox
Chicken
A blanket
Richard and Molly Byamugisha giving out food and supplies donation to the elderly
EASTER SANGA PRISON VISIT
We visited the prison with the gospel of Jesus, preached and prayed for them. We shared from Galatians 2:20 “. We donated lunch a lunch package to 62 prisoners which included;15kgs of Rice, 10kgs of Beef, 6 dozens of Sodas
We had a great counselling session as prisoners opened up which helped many to confess to us their private lives. 44 prisoners came to Christ. The prison administration requested us to help them with sanitation items like soap, toothpaste and petroleum jelly or body jelly.
During the Ssanga prison visit( Richard Byamugisha and the family during the visit)
MBARARA CENTRAL PRISON
This prison is located in the heart of Mbarara city with a population of more than 2000 prisoners both males and females. We requested a permission to always visit the prison last year and it was granted this month to always visit it once, the first Wednesday of the month. We began with the visit in the Holy week with some gifts to the prisoners and 20 bibles. We look forward to more visits.
MBARARA CENTRAL POLICE STATION
The above facility allowed to visit its facility once a month. The permission began as a weekend program but later opened us to any day of the week. We have seen many souls come to Christ.
RADIO MINISTRY
We are still humbled to have reached multitudes of souls by radio evangelism on HOPE RADIO every Saturday from 8am to 9am. HOPE RADIO is found in Kabale and has been a blessing to our ministry to air our voices to hundreds of thousands in GREATER KIGEZI
We thank God for the partnership with WORLD SHINE MINISTRIES that offered free airtime to preach the lost souls which have yielded tremendous testimonies in families and businesses.
THE UGANDA PARTNERSHIP SOCIETY VISIT (TUPS).
With great joy we received our friends who represented a big team of friends, families and partners from The Uganda Partnership society – Canada.
During their visit, we had the following activities ;
FELLOWSHIPS
We held different fellowships that were so purposed to spiritually refuel us and during the fellowships, we shared the word of God, danced, shared meals, sung songs of praise and worship.
The Uganda Partnership society with the CMM team having meal
HOME VISITS
We had a great time to visit and interact with different individuals and families inclusive of Christian Model Ministries members, Isaac, Richard, Dan Muwanguzi and organisations such as Odyssey technologies. We shared great moments with the families during the sessions and had meals, quality time and shared gifts as well.
SCHOOL VISITS
We visited different schools purposely to preach the WORD OF GOD to the pupils, students and youth. We visited the following schools;
MATUGGA HILLS SCHOOL
KYABATO PRIMARY SCHOOL
KAZIN SCHOOL
GOLDEN CARE
We preached to the students and their teachers plus the support staff.
We also visited the different school projects in Kampala metropolitan area that CMM is associated with These include;
SALAMA SCHOOL OF THE BLIND
ELIZABETH CENTRE
The above places care for the vulnerable children and those in need. During the visits, we shared gifts, prayed with the children, played with the staff, and interacted with the management. Much of the preaching in those centers were done by Ben who talked about A GOD OF IMPOSSIBILITIES using the story of Gideon.
PRISON MINISTRY
We visited different prisons which included;
SANGA PRISON, L. KATWE PRISON RUSESE PRISON
The above prisons have been welcoming us and allowed us to preach to their prisoners for a long time. During the visits, we shared with drinks and bites, plus the word of God that was meant to encourage them in the trying moments of the prison.
The Prisons management were so happy for courtesy visits that refreshed their hearts to press on amidst challenges. The officers helped us to interact and move around the prison facilities were inmates shared with them their challenges and we preached to them the word of God.
Most of the prisoners sleeping areas were very small with few mattresses in their cells s and poor hygiene was an issue. we donated some items to them. so touched to see the situation the prisoners are passing through. We prayed with them and encouraged them with the WORD OFGOD. In all the prison facilities, we ministered to around 300 prisoners all men and around 200 gave their lives to Christ.
POLICE VISITS
Together with visiting teams, we visited 2 police stations at the level of the DIVISION. The stations include;
CENTRAL POLICE STATION MBARARA and WANDEGEYA POLICE STATION KAMPALA
Both stations welcomed us well and we were able to preach to around 150 suspects and 30 officers. In both stations, Ben preached the word of God and more than 100 suspects gave their lives to Christ. In Mbarara. The regional community Laisons officer requested for the discipleship of officers to help in equipping them with the biblical skills to help in fighting crime.
CHURCH VISITS
We visited different churches like Searchlight of God in Kagoma and Karugangama in Mbarara. In Mbarara ,During the two-day visit to the church, we met the marrieds around 30 couples, shared with them the word of God, prayed and had dinner with them. We also met the youth, had sessions and the entire church. The whole church was greatly empowered.
Photo gallery of the visited places and activities done
MAY
POLICE MINISTRY
We visited CENTRAL POLICE STATION MBARARA four times and met around 200 suspects. We preached the message of FORGIVENESS, LOVE AND SPIRITUAL BATTLES. In the four visits, around 40 souls came to Christ. some of the suspects were released and others were taken to court and prison. We are planning to start a fellowship for the ex-prisoners.
We found 2 juveniles who were apprehended for finding them with wrong crowd of people (smoking and drinking alcohol). They were very violent and abusive but we preached to them the word of God.
A police officer claimed to have accidentally have killed an army officer and was in custody too. we found him so fearful but preached a message of hope to him as well.
We prayed with both cases and offered adequate counselling. We pray their cases are resolved.
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES (C-TBS)
The New Testament class at God’s Center of Blessings Church Bweyogerere is now studying the gospel Mark. Looking at their work when grading, the whole bunch this time have learnt to be more independent and better in their research. And listening to their testimonies, some are already teaching, preaching to their church congregations from the very books that we are studying which is also encouraging.
The old Testament class at Mukono is now studying the book of Leviticus. The pastors in the class have continued to utilize what they are learning and most of them are teaching, and preaching to their congregations from the very same book we are studying. They have also found this to be very helpful on top of making their ministry work easier.
We are very grateful to the Lord for the opportunities he has given to us as CMM and C-TBS staff especially for being able to reach-out to lives, churches, communities, prisons, schools with the word of God.
We always thank God for you our friends and partners for continuously praying with us , encouraging and supporting us and the CMM work in Uganda.
Dear Friends, Greetings to you from the Christian Model Ministries Team. Here is our month report to give you an idea of how things are going on in the ministry.
PRISON /POLICE MINISTRY
a. CENTRAL POLICE STATION We were able to visit the facility thrice and met around 150 suspects of which 123 gave their lives to Christ. We gave them 5 more bibles to help them in accessing the word of God.
b. NYAKEIZI POLICE STATION We visited the facility twice in January and met 8 suspects and 1 gave his life to Christ. We gave them bibles to help to help with evangelism.
c. KATETE POLICE STATION We were given the permission to visit the above facility at any time of our convenience. We have visited the facility twice and 6 people gave their lives to Christ.
d. KABULA PRISON The above facility is found in Lyantonde district 102 km away from Mbarara city along Masaka-Mbarara road. we found 186 prisoners. We were able to preach to 45. We donated 24 bible to help them access the word of God.
Richard Byamugisha at the Various prison stations
FAMILY MINISTRY
We have ministered to families in the various categories as below;
a.) YOUTH CONFERENCE We organized a conference in partnership with Karugangama church and surrounding churches that attracted 83 youth. The conference was under the THEME: EPHESIANS 4:1-. Many youth gave their lives to Christ and others recommitted their lives with their family.
b. DAD –SON TALK We organized a retreat for dads and their sons to discuss issues of Christian importance. We had 2 facilitators who helped the youth open up to their dads. That same day, we saw dads and sons reconciling. The retreat brought 8 dads and 14 sons. We also agreed to have it twice a year.
c. MENS FELLOWSIP We begun a rare but powerful ministry of men in Mbarara. By December, we had 18 men who registered to attend the fellowships every Saturday. The fellowship started in power that most men invited their friends. We began the year with preparatory meetings, a fellowship and a football match with our sons. All the programs have been well attended. As a result of the above initiative, one of the men had a wedding. We were even privileged to pray a blessing for the marriages.
Various groups in the family gathering events that impacted youth, men community at Large.
CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BILICAL STUDIES ( C-TBS )
We are currently looking at three classes running at three different locations.
On the 26th /of February /2023,we passed out 13 Old Testament students. The graduation was very colorful and we received from the graduands very encouraging testimonies. This graduation ceremony took place at “God’s center of Blessings church Bweyogerere” .At the very same location, we shall be starting the New Testament class on the 12th March 2023.
The class at Mukono will be receiving their New Testament certificates on 26th March. This same class has already started their 2023 classes on the 20th March and will run up to December 2023.
Last year ,we started a bible training class with mostly younger men and women. They are all training in computer software skills with a company Odyssey Technologies but we were invited to run our Bible classes along side their computer training which too is going on very well.
Dan Muwanguzi at the Church Based Training in Biblical Studies C-TBS graduation Ceremony.
We are always grateful to God for such an opportunity to be part of what God is doing in this nation.
Thank you so much all our supporters. We appreciate all your prayers and all encouragement to us.
Christian Model Ministries 