The state minister for Finance, Hon David Bahati has urged Christian fathers to make family prayer a priority, noting that it’s also one of the best ways to help homes thrive.
He made these remarks during the Father’s day celebration walk at Kololo Airstrip on Saturday. The event was organised by Family Life Network (Uganda)
Minister Bahati, a father of three, expressed the need for Uganda to uphold family values, morals, and urged fellow men to rely on God in their pursuit to strengthen their families.
“We believe that the strength of the moral fabric of a nation depends on the moral fabric of our families. The stronger the families, the stronger our nation,” he said.
The celebrations were graced by the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Mrs. Janet Kataaha Museveni as the chief guest.
“A strong family means a God centered family, a family that prays together, a family that eats together. A strong family is one that recognizes that the head of that family is God,” Minister Bahati said.
He added: “A strong family is where parents work as examples because the bible says in Proverbs 22:6 says; Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“As parents, we should be able to work as examples and train our children so that when they grow up, they will not depart from that which we have trained them to be. A strong family is a family that prospers,” he said.
The celebrations run under a theme inspired by Malachi 4:6 which says; He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.
Minister Bahati made an appeal to private sectors and other related stake holders to work together with government to address the challenges that are affecting families.
“We are here to join our hands as fathers and as families to fight the challenges that are affecting the institution of family. If we do that, in a few years from now, we shall surely say the walk that we took this morning from the city square, through the high street of our capital city, then here at Kololo grounds, was not in vain. We hope that the cause of institutional family will not only stop here, but will continue to our families in Kampala, and out of it,” he concluded.
