Busika, LUWEERO – Two Churches have been planted in Busika, Luweero district, where a large number of people received Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior on Sunday.
Following a major evangelical mission led by American preacher Justin Troup, 40 residents received their baptism to accept and follow Christ. The main focus of the crusade done across the district was on the ‘urgency of the gospel and the essential truth about evangelism.’
In a statement released Monday, Justin Troup who is the Executive Pastor at Harvest Bible Chapel Union County – USA stressed that there are no words to describe the privilege of leading multitudes of hungry souls into the arms of Jesus.
God is doing amazing things in Uganda, he remarked.
Luweero District was the site of a fierce insurgency by the National Resistance Army (NRM) and a brutal counter-insurgency by the government of Milton Obote, known as the Luweero War or the “Bush War”, that left many thousands of civilians dead during the early to mid-1980s.
The area affected by the war come to be known as the Luweero Triangle. The August 2014 national population census enumerated the population at 458,158.
Many residents had stories of reconciliation to God and renewed hope for the future.
The evangelical missions were backed by Pastor Peter Sewakiryanga, the founder of Kyampisi Childcare Ministries, who on November 5, 2017 re-launched his existing church as a Great Commission Collective Church.
The church is home to an elementary school of 300 children and provides education for community children who could otherwise not afford it.
Here, they expose them to the gospel and curb generational cycles of poverty. As a long-term goal, Justin Troup and Peter Sewakiryanga want to start a secondary school in addition to the elementary school.
Justin Troup said the other newly planted church in Fields of Hope Church, Busika.
