Most of the country’s population may live in cities and urban areas but there are still thousands of communities dotted across Uganda and they present their own challenges for churches.
Following his advice to Church planter on Friday, gospel music minister and Pastor Brian Lubega says slum should have gospel-centered ministries, they should never be neglected.
According to the Ministry of Lands, slums are defined as areas with inadequate access to safe water, sanitation and other infrastructure, insecure residential status, poor structural quality of housing and overcrowding.
Slums are areas that attract a high density of low- income earners and or unemployed persons, with low levels of literacy. They are also characterized by high rates/levels of noise, crime, drug abuse, immorality (pornography and prostitution) and alcoholism and high HIV/AIDS prevalence.
According to Mr Lubega, aside the brokenness and lostness in slum towns that we must address, these places hold treasures.
This comment, published through his social media account, comes following the landslide victory of popular singer Bobi Wine, a former ghetto resident now elected to the Parliament of Uganda.
“You don’t need to smell like the state house to be a president. The wise men in the bible divinely knew that it’s not a grantee for kings to be born in the palace, one being in the front of line doesn’t make him or her the most important person, they must have cut the line.” He said.
Mr Lubega says a leader will germinate even when you throw him or her in Kamokya or Kosovo.
“I want to honor the pastors and ministers who take the treasures of the gospel in love and action to what the world calls forbidden. Your faith is loud, it’s the true definition of the conviction of the unseen, we are something today because one man took the courage to plant a church in the community surrounded by a cemetery, orphans and so many things.” Brian Lubega said.
Unfortunately, many Church planters today abandon the least developed places in Uganda moving to those of comfort.
“It takes a wise man to see a king in manger, not in a palace, one would ask; do the people in the slums need good water, do they need good roads? Yes they do, the wise men had to bring kingly treasures in the manger or ghetto.” He added.
Wise men see kings in ghetto and bring kingly treasures, Brian Lubega remarked.
