A Word from Pastor (Papa) George
Africa – The will to win is useless without the will to prepare, April 21, 2021
Often times we are asked whenever someone hears the testimonies of the many people that are coming to faith during the outreaches in central Africa: “How do you disciple them?” The simple answer is: “The will to win is useless without the will to prepare.”
In August of 2019, leaders from Harvest Vision in Africa met with local pastors in the city of Masaka and began training them and their congregations on the discipling of new believers until they are in a local church fellowship.
Three months later, in November, believers from different Harvest Vision fellowships came to accompany these pastors and believers in door-to-door ministry for 5 days.
Over 8,000 people accepted Jesus and were in the care of the local pastors and believers. In January of this year, they began the same ministry with 65 pastors of local church families in the Luka District, close to Iganga.
Last week 142 believers from different Harvest Vision fellowships traveled to Luka and went door-to-door with the pastors and believers from Monday to Friday and left the 4,432 new believers to be discipled by those church families. They are preparing for the next location in June. The work of the five-fold ministry is described in Ephesians 4:11-16.
We respectfully submit to the leading of the five-fold ministry because it accomplishes the work that God has called us to do.
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USA – There is a time to laugh and a time to dance, April 17, 2021
Many thanks to Aaron and the Young Republicans for hosting an opportunity for family and friends to come together and have fellowship at the Garden of Eden fellowship center in Mt. Vernon.
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During these times of uncertainty it is a joy to be together and just breathe.
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USA – Therefore since you are surrounded by such a cloud of witnesses, April 17, 2021
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught us that at the beginning of creation God:
Some of us remember saying these words to the person we believed in our heart was to be our life partner.
“I take you, to have and to hold, from this day forward,
for better or for worse, for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
until we are parted by death,
as God is my witness,
I give you my promise.”
These are the hopeful words of our covenant relationship, but like any hope they are only proven when they are tested. We were blessed to share a lunch with eight other couples that have walked their journey of faith in God and each other through 310 years of marriage.
Together we reflect, about every joy and difficulty that any couple will encounter and even though many times the difficulties were attributed to our own poor choices, individually or corporately, we persevere through the grace of God.
Failures, individually and corporately, to live out those words 100% are not an option, they are a reality. But, we have learned that failure in itself is not fatal.
The only thing that is “fatal” is quitting.
The one truth that we have learned in walking with couples like this can be summed up by having seen that the fruit that has been produced by their living came from love and service to God and others.
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Africa – For the Son of Man came to seek and save what was lost, April 17, 2021
What a blessing to witness the Body of Christ being used to fulfill His purpose.
We were blessed to get the testimonies of 1,231 new believers accepting Jesus last month. One of the outreaches in central Uganda, brought 50 new believers into the kingdom and they have already started collecting money for iron sheets to begin a church fellowship in that community. Last year, the ministry expanded to Iganga, in central Uganda, where there are many of the Muslim faith and started door-to-door ministry because of the restrictions that were imposed because of the pandemic. A property was purchased and a meeting facility was constructed. This last Sunday, April 11th, a team of 135 from different branch church families, joined with a team of 7 from the Kibuli fellowship in Kampala and traveled to Iganga to spend a week joining the door to door ministry. On Wednesday, we had the opportunity to talk with Pr. Martin, the director of Harvest Vision in Africa, while he was teaching at one of the Bible schools in eastern Uganda. He told us that on Monday, when the teams came back to the facility, 725 people had accepted Jesus that day and had made a commitment to become part of a church fellowship to learn how to become true disciples. We are looking forward to Martin’s return to Kampala so we can be witness to the news about the rest of the weeks harvest of souls.
We thank everyone of our co-laborers here that provide the prayer, encouragement and financial support needed to do our part.
We would appreciate the support of anyone
being led to join us as we witness
this time of revival and great harvest.
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