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

KASANGATI PRISON

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

While at Kasangati police station.

KALANGALA PRISON

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

Traveling to Kalangala island.

KALANGALA CENTRAL POLICE STATION

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

SEETA POLICE STATION

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

NTINDA POLICE STATION

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

Giving out bibles at Ntinda police station.

KIBANGA PRIMARY SCHOOL

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

Sharing with pupils at Kibanga primary School.

C-TBS Class

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

The C-TBS New testament class

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

Prisons Ministry

Kisoro Prison.

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

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

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Ndorwa Prison.

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

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

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Seeta Police station

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

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

Kiira road police station.

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

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

Kawempe Police station.

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

We gave out 5 bibles in two different languages.

Busoga Mission

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

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

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

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

We gave out 200 bibles to different families.

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Matinza church of Uganda.

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

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C-TBS Report

The old testament class

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

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

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The New testament class

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

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

The CMM Sponsored Children

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

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

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

Prison Ministry

As one of the ways of fulfilling our great commission, we at CMM have continued visiting various prisons in Uganda taking to them words of Love, Hope, Forgiveness, and reconciliation. We managed to minister to 3 different prisons and 3 police detentions/police cells.

Kasangati Prison.

As was previously mentioned, Kasangati prison administration have always welcomed CMM with open arms to preach the word of God and talk to the prisoners and the prison staff. On the 26th of June, with 16 bibles to donate, we visited and preached to 278 prisoners 24 of whom were women and 37 prisoners came to Christ.

Giving out bibles at Kasangati

Nyimbwa Prison.

Nyimbwa prison is located in Luwero district one and half hours north of Kampala. Here, we ministered to 184 prisoners and gave away 16 bibles to them.

Headed to Nyimbwa prison.

Kauga prison.

This prison facility is found along Kampala Jinja highway and housed 586 prisoners at the time of our visit. Here we donated 10 bibles to help them grow spiritually in Christ.

Main entrance to Kauga prison

Among the police detentions we visited were, Mukono police station, Kiira road police station, and Seeta police station where we had a total of 52 come to christ and also gave out 10 bibles.
Family Alters / Fellowships.
Our weekly family fellowships have continued to be a blessing to many and we continue to receive testimonies of God’s goodness through these fellowships.

One of the family fellowships.

C-TBS.

The new testament 

This class recently completed the study of the book of Acts. The book of acts in our setting is like the climax of the N.T bible class.

By this time, all the students have a good understanding of the “inductive approach bible study”.

Now Acts also acts as the introduction and lays the foundation to the epistles.

We are now studying the book of romans which is another exciting and rich book in christian / church doctrine.

The Old Testament.

The O.T class is currently studying the books 1+2 Samuel. We in the bible studies consider this as one book given the simple fact that 2nd Samuel is a continuation of the 1st Samuel story.

Around this time, the O.T class is also eying 1+2 Kings which also in a sense is the climax for the O.T as it contains such important background information for the prophets books.

Kato Edward teaching.

We as CMM are very thankful to the Lord for being part of what He is doing in the nation. We thank all our supporters and prayer partners. Your role in these ministries is key. Thank you very much.

Prisons Ministry.

CMM was blessed to be joined by Laura and Erin from Victoria BC Canada for some part of May. We did much of the ministries together and among those was the prisons ministry. We visited two prison facilities among which were;

Kasangati Prison.

This is located 12km from the Ugandan capital Kampala. The prison had 487 prisoners at the time of our visit who Laura and Erin ministered to with words of encouragement from the book of Jeremiah 29:11 and 28 people gave their lives to christ.

Seeta Police post.

We as CMM visited Seeta police post 4 times (once every week) and ministered to 84 people in total with words of encouragement. On one of the visits, we were accompanied by Laura and Erin who shared words of hope and prayed with the police suspects.

Erin and Laura doing Prisons Ministry.

Western Uganda Annual Convention.

In partnership with world-shine ministries, we organised this year’s conventionat Rwentobo Ntungamo District. Just like it was for the prisons ministry, we were accompanied by Erin and Laura to this event. We to part in a number of activities but mostly was into the Forums. These were pre-convention activities which were meant to reach to city corporate class and they include;

Different activities at the Convention

C-TBS class activities

Prisons Ministry

By the grace of God, CMM has continued visiting prisons and police cells around Uganda and in the month of April we managed to reach out to 3 police stations sharing the love of Christ.

Seeta police station.

This had 68 suspects that day and this number was due to the increased crime rate in the Easter celebrations season. We ministered to them about the unending love of Christ and 13 gave their lives to Christ.

Wandegeya police station.

This was the biggest visited this month. It housed 107 suspects at the time most of whom were hard core criminals. We continued sharing the love of christ through the word and 18 gave their lives to Christ.

Namugongo police post.

This by virtue of to the police post size houses a small number as compared to the above. We found 13 suspects who were charged on offences ranging from petty theft to domestic violence.

Hospital Ministry 

CMM has continued with routine visits to patients in Mulago hospital. We went to the men’s ward and attended to 5 men who had no attendants. we helped them shave their hair, cutting fingers nails, bathing them, etc.

Family alters

The family alters fellowships have continued happening on a weekly basis. In the month of April, we held fellowships every Monday in Namugongo and at Bethany every Wednesday and the emphasis this month was to ensure people revive their relationship with God in the month of remembering the resurrection of Jesus.

The family alter fellowship at Bethany.

The C-TBS 

The OT class is now studying the book of Deuteronomy. The NT class is now studying the gospel of Luke and their next book will be Acts and this will introduce us to the study of more Epistles.

Both classes continue to be exciting and different students share good testimonies of what God is doing in their lives and ministries, some saying that they no longer take long working on their Sunday sermons and many themes keep coming up as they study the bible.

Dan with the class at Bweyogerere.

We as CMM are very thankful to the Lord for being part of what He is doing in the nation. We thank all our supporters and prayer partners. Your role in these ministries is key. Thank you very much.

PRISON MINISTRY

By God’s unending grace, We have continued to do great work in preaching to people in prison and close to 300 people came to Christ throughout the month of March.Here are Some of the prisons that we visited;

Seeta Police Station

We visited Seeta police station 3 times this month and shared the precious word of God to them. 38 people gave their lives to Christ and many of them are seriously going on well with Christ. They were later released and are now established in Christ.

Nyamushekera Prison

This is found in Bushenyi district, south western Uganda around 350km from Kampala

The visit was on Friday 18^th March 2019 to a prison that housed 967 prisoners both men and women at the time, of whom 650 are on remand and the rest are condemned.

• Many of the prisoners are on the high level crimes like murder, rape, robbery and are highly protected.
• God’s grace helped us to preach the gospel to all those people and souls turned to Christ.
• We gave them 15 bibles which we distributed 3 per cell.
• That prison serves the greator Bushenyi which has Districts like; Buhweju, Mitooma, Sheema, Bushenyi main and

While at Nyamushekera prison

Mitooma Prison

• This was also visited on 18^th march 2019.
• It houses 67 prisoners with petty cases of not more than 6 month sentence
• We gave them 8 bibles to help them understand the word of God.

In total the month of March has handled 1,200 prisoners.

On the way to Mitooma prison.

MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRY

Butalejja Medical Outreach

In partnership with Medical and Dental Missioners Africa who gave a team of 15 medics all the drugs, CMM on the 16th/March/2019 conducted a medical camp in Butalejja where 183 people were treated. 17 people gave their lives to christ.

Butalejja Medical outreach.

1. Bwambara Medical Outreach

This took place on 16^th march 2019 at Bikirungu Health Centre and here CMM Partnered with; Bwambara Lions Club the chief sponsor, NICA – North India Cultural Association– which sponsored the Eye glasses, Medicare – gave dentists, Mulago Hospital – provided eye specialists. ,CMM  did the coordination and providing support staff.

We also donate 6 bibles to Bwambara secondary school.

• 784 people were worked on by 15 dentists and 6 eye doctors.
• 418 glasses were given freely to the people with reading difficulties
• 300 girls received free sanitary pads
• 50 expectant mothers received mosquito nets.
• 58 were referred to Mulago Hospital for free cataract surgery

All the 4 medical camps reached to around 5,000 people.

Bwambara medical outreach.

CHURCH BASED TRAINING IN BIBLICAL STUDIES (C-TBS)

Both the OT and NT classes are in their early stages. Our NT students have been learn the analytical method of bible study in these first few weeks and they are moving on well.

Currently, the NT class is studying the book of Titus and will soon start the introduction to the gospels.

The OT class are now studying Exodus. Edward Kato will be teaching Exodus and Leviticus in these next three weeks and its currently moving on well.

Dan teaching NT class.

We continue to appreciate all those that God has used in support for this cause, May the good Lord continue to bless you abundantly.

Prison Ministry

God has continuously  enabled us as a team to continue doing an amazing work in the prisons around the country. In partnership with World shine foundation USA, CMM has managed to donate 107 bibles which have helped in reaching many prisons and police cells.

The prisons and police cells we visited included among others Wandegeya Police Station Which receives an average of 45 suspects per day and has a staff team of around 300 police men and women, Jinja road police station which receives an average of 60 suspects and has 245 staff, Namugongo police post which receives an average of 6 suspects daily and has 30 staff, Kasangati prison which has 248 prisoners with 56 staff.

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Medical Outreach

God in His faithful love enabled us to organise several dental outreaches around Kampala reaching the many in need in the month of February.

CMM in partnership with Mulago dental school which gave us 13 dentists and the relevant medical equipment and Christian worship church moved to 4 different locations for dental outreaches.

We plucked out teeth and treated  79 people giving services like scaling, extraction, dental sensation and referrals at a free cost at Bulenga. This took place on the 14th of February 2019.

Ministering to kids at bulenga

On the 28th of February we held another dental outreach to Namugongo where we partnered with Ntinda pentecostal church and Mulago dental school. We attended to 586 people from the community and 3 schools and we were able to provide dental services, counselling to the people  and preached the gospel as well.

The dental outreach at Namugongo

The CMM team also went on and held another dental outreach at Sam Iga memorial primary school where we attended to 278 pupils and 5 teachers with various dental problems. Here we also distributed 10 bibles.

Ministering to pupils and teachers at Sam Iga memorial primary sch.

C-TBS Bible Classes

As we look forward to another fruitful year in the field of bible training, the Lord has blessed us with a new bunch of New Testament bible students. This N.T class started on the 2nd of march with a bunch of 24 students from 5 different churches.

During the first week, our emphasis as teachers is to teach principles in bible observation and interpretation. We are now studying the book of Galatians.

The Old Testament class also started with 14 students. In this class, we have started with the introduction and overview of the old testament, and here we are now studying the book of Genesis.

Dan teaching at the C-TBS bible classes

We appreciate your prayers, words of encouragement and financial support.

Thank you so much.

Prison Ministry

CMM has continued making regular visits to prisons, ministering to prisoners/suspects and their wardens. In the month of January, we visited a prison facility in Kabale which is 390km south west of Kampala.

The prison facility at that time accommodated 781 inmates 70 of whom are ladies with 10 children. we gave out 18 bibles and shared the word of God with a word from John 8:32 & 36.

On our way to the prison

We also visited seeta police station twice ministering to 76 suspects and 12 gave their lives to christ, which we are so grateful for.

Please note that at both stations, we were not allowed to take any photos and we only managed to take them outside the premises.

C-TBS Preparations

January and February, different staff members visit churches to talk about the training and recruit .and the recruitment exercise has gone on well.

The first weekend of march, we will be starting the O.T class at Bweyogerere Gods centre of Blessings church and the N.T class at Mukono D.C church.

Dan speaking and sharing at Deliverance Church about the School.

We have also held several administrative/prayer meetings in preparation (twice a week).

By this time, different staff know who is teaching which book and when.

For each staff, we allow time to personally prepare themselves, start reading through/preparing especially the books they are going to teach.

Discipleship training/Bible study still remains as a key need to the church in Uganda today, And we thank you for standing with us in this field of ministry.

We appreciate your prayers, words of encouragement and financial support.

Thank you so much.

Butalejja End of Year Mission

The CMM team for the last 9 years has been spending the last 4 days of the year and the New Year’s Eve at Butalejja holding what we refer to as “End of year mega missions”.

A team of 33 people from 8 different churched headed by Florence Wanaswa and the CMM leadership team took part in this. Below is the report of the 2018 Butalejja Mega Mission.

1. Open Air gospel meetings.

With 5 different preachers from amongst the team, we held 5 open air gospel meetings on the district Boma playground.

Around 3500people attended and 275 came to Christ. WE GIVE ALL THE GLORY TO JESUS

The entire team was divided into different departments among which included; praise and worship, counselling, ushers, etc

People Gathered for the Open air Gospel Mission.

2. The Prisons’ Ministry

We visited Butalejja prison as we’ve always done every end of year.

Our prison visit goals are to share the gospel with the inmates, to pray with and council individuals conduct praise and worship session to share a meal that CMM sponsors with all inmates and prison wardens.

We ministered to 62 people, 58 prisoners and 4 prison wardens. Out of the 58, one was a lady.

17 gave their lives to Christ for the first time of whom 4 were Muslims. 21 prisoners renewed their faith in Christ.

We give all the glory to Jesus.

Doing Ministry at the Butalejja Prison.

3. Baptism

Below are CMM members baptizing new converts who came to Christ in the course of the mission week from the different ministries we held.

We baptised 12 people and some were filled with the Holy spirit.

Baptizing the new converts.

4. Children’s Ministry.
Racheal and other CMM members had a good time with the children sharing bible stories, sharing some drinks & snacks, shading and praise & worship

The CMM team Sharing a good time with the children.

5. Soccer

The CMM soccer team versus the Butalejja community soccer team was another social and very attractive event that aims at bringing together many locals from the nearby community.

This time, the CMM team scored 1 goal and the Butalejja community team scored 3 goals.

6. Church visits

Florence sharing at the Grace church in Butalejja.

Meeting the CMM sponsored children

As CMM, we decided to always meet with the CMM sponsored children every quota, share with them about the word of God, among other things. This is when we take time to have the kids write to their sponsors, take pictures of them, and collect their end of term school reports all of which we use to generate a children’s report.

On December 14^th, the CMM team gathered with the sponsored kids who took part in  lots of activities.

Some of the CMM sponsored children