Pictured is Charles, embracing her mother, Jessica. (Photo via amazima.org)
A Christian organisation located just outside of the city of Jinja in the eastern region of Uganda is transforming lives and changing its very immediate community through the truth of Jesus Christ.
Amazima Ministries which uses a variety of programs to live out the love of Jesus by educating and empowering people of all ages, recently witnessed a young man and her mother confess Jesus as Lord.
Only identified as Charles, the organisation says the youngster heard the Gospel for the first time after joining the ministry’s scholarship program in 2008.
He gave his life to Christ and abandoned the cultural rituals he was practicing.
“We had moved through a period of sorrow because my mother was beaten. We were there in a terrible condition,” Charles narrated his experience in an update by Amazima Ministries. “Demons sometimes could torment us through dreams. Many times in the night, I could wake up shouting.”
Charles, after receiving Christ, and learning his true identity as a born-again Christian, started praying to God and began to find true peace.
“Through the preachings I stopped practicing cultural rituals, and I started praying. I started experiencing peace. It touched my heart deeply. It touched my soul. Then I started changing,” he said.
“That is how I started to yearn and desire to know about God. Then I started also sharing with my mom,” he continued.
After seeing such a great change in her son, Ms Jessica, Charles’ mom began to believe too.
“When I saw Charle’s behaviour start to change, it touch my heart,” Ms Jessica said. “I had to know about this God because I had seen change with my own eyes.”
Katie Davis, the Founder and Chief Visionary of Amazima Ministries urges that every outreach of the organization, whether education scholarship, vocational training, or medical care, is built on a biblical perspective with an emphasis on relationship and disciple-making.
Katie and her husband Benji Davis left the United states and settled in Uganda about 10 years ago, captivated by love to serve the needy and spread the Gospel.
“The words of Paul in Philippians 1 echo through my mind and I am confident that He who began a good work here will indeed carry it to completion – that people would know the Lord here until the day that Jesus returns,” she wrote in a blog post on 9 Nov. 2020.
“In over 13 years in this beautiful country I call home, every real-life transformation I have witnessed has not come about because of a program or a project, but because of a relationship with someone who demonstrated the love of Christ,” she added.
Katie believes that as students’ lives are transformed by Amazima Ministries, they will be the ones to go back out into their communities, their country, and the world to share the love of Christ with others.
“They will be leaders for peace and leaders for change, fully transformed and redeemed by Christ, and empowered to share the Gospel with their communities,” Katie wrote.
