Dear friends/co-workers, we thank God who has kept you well and enabled you to continue with all that you’re doing. Here is our CMM October report.

PRISONS MINISTRY

1.Nyabuhikye prison:

Found in Ibanda District 310km from Kampala city in South Western Region of Uganda. The region is predominantly occupied by Banyankole and Bakiga with other few subtribes who also speak Runyankole Rukiga language. The prison was constructed in 1969 after Mbarara prison became so occupied. We visited the prison on 7th October and we were highly welcomed by the officer on Guard. We couldn’t be allowed to minister to the prisoners, so we prayed with the prison officers.
We donated to them 20 Runyankole Rukiga bibles which were highly appreciated.
It’s on record that we took them the first bibles to that prison which will help 587 prisoners.

2.Kiburara government prison farm:

Also found in Ibanda District which is 358km from Kampala city along Kamwenge road. The farm prison is the largest in South Western Uganda with the population of 2705 prisoners. Believed to have been constructed in 1967 to handle hard core criminals with hard labour in the farm. It has the largest prison farm in Uganda with the labor entirely provided by the prisoners. It has more than 600acres of maize which is the main source of food in all the prisons. It rears
cows, goats and hens alongside the maize growing. By the time of visiting, many prisoners were in the farm digging in heavy rain. On 7th October, we visited the prison donated 25 bibles to them which were received by the Deputy Officer in charge.

3.Rubindi Police Station :

We visited the Station located 38km from Mbarara city in South Western Uganda. At the time of visiting, the Station had 7 suspects; 6men and 1woman who all had petty crimes. We preached the gospel to them and 6 received Jesus as their personal savior.
We donated 6 bibles to the Station to help them in advancing the gospel.

4.Igorora Police Station:

The station is located 56 km from Mbarara city in Ibanda district. The place is preoccupied by Banyankole who are mainly Matooke farmers. We donated to the station 5bibles which were received
by the OC. We were not able to preach to the suspects since they were in court. The station handles 45 cases weekly.

5.Ibanda District Police Headquarters:

This is found in the heart of Ibanda town which is predominantly occupied by the Bnyankole, Bakiga,
Rwandese, Batooro and many other tribes.
We visited the Station on 7th October and found 24 suspects; 21men, and 3women.
We preached to them and 18 gave their lives to Christ. The Holyspirt manifested greatly in the cells and
many were delivered from the demons.
We donated 8 bibles to them for advancing the work of God in the police station.

6.Seeta Police Station:

God has given us the grace to keep going to Seeta police station on a weekly basis. The wide door opened to us has led many souls to Christ on every visit. The month of October has led 42 souls to Christ.

7.Kiwatule Police Station:

located in Nakawa Division, Kampala city on the Northern bypass road with many private organized homes around it. It mainly secures a certain class of people in Kampala city. We visited it on 15th October and donated 3 bibles to the station that were received by the officers

8.Maganjo Police Station:

Found in Nabweru Division Nansana Municipality along Bombo rd. 8km from Kampala city. It’s in central region and so many suspects speak Luganda. We visited it on 13th October, and welcomed by the Officer in Charge. We preached to the suspects and 6 gave their lives to Christ.

9.Kawanda Police Station:

Located in Nabweru division, Nansana Municipality 13km from Kampala city along Bombo. Its situated in a pre-urban area with lots of people setting up small businesses. The station receives around 60 suspects per month.

10.Rukungiri District Police Headquarters:

This is in the Kigezi Sub-region in Western Uganda 387km from Kampala. We visited the
station on 8th October and donated 7 bibles to help them to advance the work of God. Being the district police headquarter, it handles many suspects of many categories. They handle 60 cases daily.

11.Mulago Police Station:

Strategically located with in Mulago National Referral Hospital which is in the heart of Kampala city. It’s mainly established to secure the hospital facility which is the biggest in Uganda. Most of the suspects are thieves who steal from patients, attendants and the staff. On 20th October we visited the station and donated to them 2 bibles to help the suspects access the word of God.

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CHILDREN MINISTRY

We thank God for the children ministry that has continued to advance in great power. The children are no longer waiting for the Sunday fellowship, we have organized weekly fellowship any time of the day.
They even organize themselves and do praise and worship and recite the scriptures they learnt the previous Sunday. Sunday has now become the day of celebration, adding more knowledge of the Word and scriptural assignments. We have included in sports in the Sunday program to break routine. We sub divide them into 2 groups (2yrs-5yrs and 6yrs-10yrs). Each of the small groups are catered for differently due to their learning abilities. The 2-5yrs group are usually engaged with playing bible games, singing, shading bible pictures and storytelling. The 6-10yrs are able to read the bible, ask questions and answer questions. They also like singing, poetry, rhyming and bible quiz. Each Sunday has a topic which gives them assignments.
We thank God for the grace that has made it easier and opened the door for us to serve.

CMM CHILDREN

Due to extended lockdown for schools, we decided to help our kids with some study time. This came after some students became redundant which was going to result to bad behavior. During the study session, they are equipped with formal knowledge, informal knowledge ( skills)
and the word of God. We expect to handle this session till the children return to school in January 2021. The kids have gained a lot through this month and the parents and guardians are happy about the move.

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YOUTH

The youth ministry as earlier mention is targeting the maids (domestic workers) in our vicinity, and High school youth who are 16yrs and above.
The number we had targeted was 7, but now they have increased to 12. They mainly meet once a week; 5pm on Sunday. We mainly 3 languages of communication; Luganda, English and Runyankole Rukiga. All the youth were given personal bibles. We found it prudent to minister to the youth in Namugongo and Kagoma being the place with our easy access.
The youth have given us the great reception and have showed great hunger for the Word of God. Each of the sessions we have had has paused a great challenge and enthusiasm to meet more youth.
We thank God for the open hearts towards the word of God.

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BUTALEJJA END OF YEAR MISSIONS

Around this time, CMM starts focusing more on the end of year missions in Butalejja. We have started meeting, praying, brainstorming and planning for this 2020/2021 Butalejja mission. Teams will be visiting and ministering but observing all COVID-19 prevention government given guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures. We will not be able to run our usual Open Air Gospel but we shall be; -Visiting and ministering in different community churches. -meet and pray with individuals. -Pray with and minister to children in smaller manageable numbers and many other activities. Please keep praying with us as we plan this End of year missions.

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We are always grateful to the Lord for the opportunity to be part of what of he is doing in this Nation and we thank all our friends/co-workers who are standing with us to continue in ministry.

God bless.

CMM

We praise God for the grace that helped us, September has seen so many people come to Christ in prisons and police stations. Below are some of the police stations that were visited and the prison.

PRISON MINISTRY

SSENTEMA PRISON: Ssentama prison is located in Kakiri town council 37km along Hoima Rd in Wakiso district. It houses 636 prisoners at the time of visiting. We donated 20 bibles to help the prisoners access the word of God. We were not allowed to access the prisoners due to the restrict measures set by the government. The prison administration confessed to us that they were lacking the bibles meaning we were the first to donate to them.

KAKIRI POLICE STATION: Kakiri police station is found in Kakiri police station is also found in Kakiri Town Council along Hoima Rd Wakiso district 37km from Kampala city. The police station Officer in Charge welcomed us warmly and helped us to understand the challenges they face in the community which include corruption in their bosses, mistrust from the community, poverty, unemployment and many others. We were able to donate 10 bibles to help and guide them in reducing the crime rate. Statistically they handle 35 people daily and more meaning our bibles will reach 110 people in a month and close to 12,000people in a year.

SEETA POLICE STATION: Seeta police station is located 18km from Kampala city along Jinja Rd in Mukono district. The station opened doors to our ministry and no one can access their cells except at our recommendation. Each week we visit we see the mighty hand of God changing lives and reconciliation with families. This month we preached to close to 130 people and 46 came to Christ.

ENTEBBE CENTRAL POLICE STATION: Entebbe central police station is found in Entebbe city close to the international airport. The station by its nature is so security sensitive and very conscious. The station was having 42 suspects by the time of visiting and all classified as dangerous. According to the hierarchy, it’s like a referral where other stations refer their dangerous suspects. We donated 8 bibles.

ABAYITA ABABIRI POLICE STATION: The above station is found few miles from Entebbe city. It’s one of the growing towns along Entebbe road. With development in Uganda, it goes along with crime rates shooting. The police station handles such crimes that comes along developing syndrome. We were blessed to visit them also on 22nd September and donated 4 bibles. The cells had 15 suspects at the time of visiting.

CHILDREN MINISTRY

Our team has been meeting with and ministering to the children each Sunday. The Hand of God in children, understanding the scriptures and change of behaviors as testified by their parents. Rachel and Molly have nurtured the kids and explained the scriptures depending on the ages.The kids below 5 yrs have been given printed work for coloring and this has motivated their attendance.

YOUTH MINISTRY

This month we identified a group of youth in our vicinity who were not ministered to. These included the neighbor’s youth and maids whose age is between 17yrs to 23yrs. We begun a fellowship has picked up steadily. Each of the 7 youths was given a personal bible depending on their favorite language (Luganda, English and Runyankore-Rukiga ). They promised to call their friends who are near each Sunday evening until schools resume.

WOMEN MINISTRY The women ministry has resumed after a long lockdown. The target group of women are widows, single mothers, and other less privileged women. In Uganda, that class of women has remained vulnerable and are prone to all kinds of abuses. We decided as the ministry to develop activities that can minister to their spiritual, social, psychological and financial needs. This has helped us to minister the word of God to them easily due to the developing relationship. Due to the situation in Uganda and the rest of the world, we decided to work with small groups of women. This month we Learnt to make things from soy which include; milk, coffee, animal feeds and doughnuts from the residues. This will improve their family nutrition and help them to start an income generating activity which will help support them financially. This month we begun with 6 women but we expect the number to increase as time goes on. We don’t take all the above for granted because not by power nor by might but by the spirit of God. Zech 4:6

Church Based Training in Biblical Studies (C-TBS)

In the past years around this time, we would be looking forward to passing out(Graduate) students from the New Testament and the Old Testament classes. But this year, both classes stopped in March a few weeks after setting off. Later in July, some of the Old Testament students resumed their studies on correspondence. We have been sending them printed materials to study by them selves as guidance so that they can keep going. This too has been with some challenges as we could not keep the same studying pace as before and the other challenge we had is ministers/Pastors try to survive during the lockdown due to COVID’19. Some had to shift/change locations when trying to find something to do to keep their families alive. So these students have done their best in the C-TBS but could only do as much as they are giving priority to their families making sure they survive during this period. We will be able to draw a better organized C-TBS program for both Schools next year. For now we keep encouraging those that can maintain their C-TBS-O.T work at their pace and those who have maintained have benefitted a lot and are giving us very encouraging feedback. Some students we have interacted with during this period have clearly expressed that the continuation of the inductive Bible Study during this period has helped them a lot and simplified some of the challenges that came with the COVID’19 season. It’s always encouraging to us to listen to such and more testimonies from our students.

We thank God for all the above ministries that he refreshed our lives. We hope to move further than the past by God’s grace. God bless you all. CMM

Greetings and blessings to all our friends and co-workers from the Uganda CMM Team. We thank you for your continuous prayers and support for the CMM work in Uganda. This is our July Report.

C-TBS

The C-TBS  like all churches in Uganda are earnestly praying for the churches to be opened.But meanwhile ,our C-TBS  program have resumed at a slow pace.we pass on printed lecture notes and other needed materials to the students of the Old Testament class in Mukono. Some of our students have expressed that they still miss out on the class interactions,asking questions,discussing various bible topics and the fellowship we usually have in a class setting. They still do their course assignments and return their work to us for marking.  There is hope that the churches will soon be opened and we will get back into our usual class settings during the lectures. Here is a testimony from one of our Old Testament students;

Joel Waiswa is one of the Elders of Zion Church in Mukono and has been a minister for many years. He completed the New Testament C-TBS class last year and joined the Old Testament class this Year.

“Studying the scriptures inductively has by far widened my understanding of the word of God and the way I preach and teach. The inductive approach has helped me to see many bible principles in all areas of life and in areas that govern the society.

The many years I had studied the bible and served as a minister were good but during this course I realised that I had only utilised a very small percentage of the bible.

The course has helped me a lot by opening my eyes to the many riches I had missed out in my many previous years of study and ministry. I now feel more comfortable and confident when preaching and teaching the word of God to the church”.

OUTREACHES

RUKUNGIRI PRISON.

On 2^nd August, 2020, we visited the above prison facility. This is found in South Western Uganda 473Km from Kampala city. The prison facility houses 511 prisoners of which 22 are women. We gave them 24 Runyankole Rukiga Bibles which is the language spoken from that part of the country. Unfortunately were not allowed to meet all the prisoners except few women. One of the women committed murder (arsonist). She burnt her husband in the house in the marriage she had spent 42yrs. We preached to her and she gave her life to Christ and we gave her a personal bible.  The prison wardens were very happy and requested us to give them personal bibles for their families and personal devotion. That has been a request in all prisons and we need to look into it since the prison wardens are few.

MBARARA REGIONAL POLICE STATION OUTREACH

On 3^rd August, 2020 we visited the above station which is found in South Western Uganda 248km from Kampala city centre. This police station is regional meaning it handles cases from 12 districts of Ankole; Mbarara, Isingiro, Kiruhura, Ntungamo, Rwampara, Ibanda, Kazo, Sheema, Bushenyi, Mitooma, Buhweju, and Rubirizi districts. It receives around 200 suspects monthly who are later transferred to prisons or released on bond. We were able to give them 10 Runyankole Rukiga bibles which were received by the area Officer in Charge.

BULENGA POLICE STATION OUTREACH

On 27^th July 2020, we visited the above station which is found in Wakiso district, 9Km from the city centre along Mityana road. The station houses 12 suspects daily on average. We gave them 5 Luganda Bibles which were received y the Officer in Charge.

NABINGO POLICE STATION OUTREACH

We visited Nabingo Police Station on 22^nd August 2020 and donated 5 Luganda Bibles to them. This station is found Wakiso district, 12km along Masaka road West of Kampala city. The station houses around 30 suspects on average each month.

KYENGERA POLICE STATION

The above station is located in Wakiso district, 7km along Masaka road West of Kampala city. It houses around 15 suspects daily on average. We donated 5 Luganda Bibles and 1 English Bible.

NSANGI POLICE STATION

Nsangi is found in Wakiso district, along Masaka road 18km West of Kampala city. It was visited on 22^nd July 2020 the same day Kyengera and Nabingo was visited. Nsangi received 8 Luganda bibles and 1 English bible. It houses around 23 suspects on a daily basis.

WAKISO DISTRICT POLICE STATION.

On 15^th August, 2020, we visited Wakiso Central Police Station in Wakiso district 23 km along Hoima road. Being a district police station, it houses 45 suspects from different parts of the district. We donated 8 Luganda Bibles and 1 English Bible. I was highly welcomed by the officer in charge.

NANSANA POLICE STATION

Nansana Police Station if found in Nansana Municipality in Wakiso District 12km along Hoima road. It is one of the most notorious criminals’ hubs in the city. Many of them commit crimes from the city and hide in Nansana municipality. We visited it on 15^th August, 2020 and donated 7 Luganda bibles and 1English bible.

SEETA POLICE STATION

Seeta police station is visited weekly and its now our church. No one is allowed to visits without our permission. On 12^th August, 2020 we donated 5 Luganda Bibles. 2 were given to people and 3 for the station. Each visit, we share with them some tea and snacks.

All the above police stations and the prison received 81 bibles which will help around 5000people in a year. In all the above visits, we observed SOPs like putting on masks, using hand sanitizers, and trying to keep social distance.

CHILDREN’S FELLOWSHIP

The children’s fellowship is growing and continues to go on well.Besides bible reading and singing,we also do other activities like shading and drawing.Some of the children can read,we have given them some few bibles to them to read.

FOOD DONATIONS TO CMM MOTHERS AND KARAMOJA

We again thank our co-workers TUPS for making this possible.Our mothers and the children are very grateful for the food provision especially this difficult COVID-19 lock down season.

We appreciate all the prayers and encouragement from all our friends and co-workers in Christ.

CMM TEAM

CMM again greets you all our friends and co-workers, thanking God for your continued prayers and support to us as a Team.

JUNE MISSIONS

We thank God for another Great opportunity availed to us after a long time of hiding due to the CORONA VIRUS pandemic. Most of the time has been occupied by self-reflection and giving Family.

Prison ministry                                                                                                                        

The Lord opened for us another door for preaching to the same in prison/police cells.We managed to visit 2 police stations; Kiira police station and Bweyogerere police station. Both of the above accommodate 45 suspects per day. We gave  5bibles  to Bweyogerere and 10 bibles to kiira police station. The bibles were officially received by the Officers-In-Charge (OCs) who later handed them over to the suspects. Three suspects gave their Lives to Christ.

CHILDREN FELLOWSHIP

The Byamugishas had a children’s fellowship at their home in Namugongo comprising of all the children in the neighborhood. The children were in the range of 1yr to 10yrs.

Richard with the children at His home.

 

FOOD HELP TO CMM MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

We thank our supporters/co-workers (TUPS) for such great work they have done facilitating us to be able to help and give some food to the CMM MOTHERS and children during this COVID 19 period. This has always been so encouraging to our mothers here and our CMM children.

 

VISITING THE TRIPLETS

The triplets (Sarah, Joyce, and Sam) are growing very fast. On 24^th May 2020, they made 4years of age, though we didn’t visit them for celebration due to the pandemic.We visited later this month and took some foodstuffs. We thank God for that.

C-TBS

The Number of participating students has now risen to 11. We are not yet allowed to teach in a class setting, we do however send out printed work to the students who when done return it to us for grading. Some students have informed us that they cannot relate or work with only printed material but prefer or work better in-class lectures and hope they have them now and then which shall commence when the lockdown is lifted and situation normalizes.

In Conclusion, the CMM leadership team would love to thank all our supporters for praying with and encouraging using this work. And we pray that the Lord will continue to keep you well and strong in Him.

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.