DOH Outreach with Gospel Truth Ministries in Rakai District

May 24, 2009

DOH Outreach with Gospel Truth Ministries in Rakai District

Door of Hope had an amazing village outreach yesterday in the Rakai District. This district was the 1st place that AIDS was found in the world so there is still a lot of pain suffering and loss of hope there. 🙁 But we brought them the faith, hope and love of God!

The Door of Hope partnered with Gospel Truth Ministries which is lead by Pastor
Moses Umar Zzimbe. Pastor Moses has a church in Masaka and a daily morning Christian radio program on Equator Radio 93.0- Masaka. I’ve worked with Pastor Moses before on the 2006 Believers World Outreach (BWO) evangelism team outreaches in Masaka. He is a great man and has an amazing testimony from being a Muslim to becoming a Christian, but that’s another blog! 🙂

Our day started out at 10am when all 15 children, 4 adults (Jim, Robyn, Julie and I), and Pastor Moses boarded our hired “mini-bus” taxi. As we drove through Masaka town we picked up Dr. Mawana and another Pastor. Gees I thought the “bus” was crowded already then we packed them in too! So down the road we all went with the packed mini- bus of people and supplies for the outreach.

We arrived in the village of Rwamba in the Rakai District about 45 minutes later full of energy, excitement and anticipation of what the day was going to bring. We pulled up to the village church and all climbed out thankful for the safe journey and to be able to move our legs again. Immediately we were introduced to some of the church members and the people that were going to guide us on our door to door evangelism. We broke up into four groups, each going north, south, east and west, to cover the whole village area. The Pastor prayed for God’s favor and then we were off to spread the word of the Lord!

Our team was Pastor Moses, Shadia, Rock, little John, Barbra and me. As we walked down the dirt road I couldn’t help but notice the natural beauty of the area. Laid out before me were lush green hills, the village gardens of; matooka (banana) trees, g-nuts (peanuts) and tomatoes and the beautiful wild flowers. How could an area of such beauty have had so much death surrounding it? I pondered that as we walked to the first house.

To Be Continued……..Look for the 2nd part of the posting tomorrow