Pastor David Bweyinda (Courtesy photo.)
The Great Commission is our Lord’s command to take the gospel to every person throughout the world and to make disciples in all nations.
David Bweyinda, a well known Ugandan Pastor and gospel musician, has traversed over 41 nations in a time period of 29 years telling multitudes about the life-transforming power in the gospel and God’s ability to deliver any one held in bondage, be it witchcraft.
His ministry has stretched from streets to prisons, from pulpits to schools, and one thing remains certain to the preacher; it is not a work of human endeavor, but a miracle of God.
The lead Pastor of Redeemed Church, Masajja, Kampala is set to mark 29 years of Ministry on 26th May, 2019.
Celebrations begun earlier this week through charity initiatives to needy children in the country, he earlier announced on his facebook page.
He will be joined by Pastor Empress Lugo, Apostle Evans Kibe among others during the mega event.
“One of my greatest opportunities in the last 29 years of Ministry is the invitation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department to always reach out to prisoners around America, leading notorious drug gang members to Jesus,” he said 17th May.
Bweyinda’s encounter with God begun the day his mother, who used to sell bananas and vegetables on the street in Busabala, Makidye division, fell seriously ill and was left with a few days to die.
She was taken to hospital where unidentified woman recommended them to pentecostal churches for prayers.
Being staunch Catholics, Bweyinda’s grandmother first hesitated but agreed the next morning.
“The church we went to was in Kibuye. At that age, I only tagged along,” Bweyinda told the New Vision.
He further explained to the state linked news daily that while praying, the preacher prophesied that in the congregation, there was a woman left with 48hours to live “but the Almighty had added onto her more 15 years.”
“With the help of a one Dr Lamet Lumala who was then practicing in Mulago Hospital, they cut my mother somewhere around the belly and removed a scorpion. He told us she had been bewitched and still has that scar. He looked at me and said: “Wow..what a powerful man of God. You will travel nations and God will use you,” Bweyinda said.
“He then gave me money and told me to take mum home and not to give her food for two weeks. After that cutting experience, I could hardly sleep. I rested in the same room with mum and two weeks later, I got up one night and could not see our roof. I woke mum up and showed her but unlike me, she saw it and started praying that I was running mad. I saw a face smiling down at me and the roof came on again,” Bweyinda noted.
He later received a vision, dream and confirmation message from Deuteronomy 28 that ignited his move towards ministry.
“That was when I told mum that God had called me to do His work. That was 1990 and I was four years old. Being her last child, she called my elder siblings and told them. Some slapped me thinking I did not want to study.”
Despite resistance from the mother who further consulted with pastors and told them that the son was going to waste away, David started preaching in Owino Market and on the streets.
“The Holy Spirit was upon me. That was when mum gave up fighting me. She realised that my calling was real. I spent a year preaching in Owino Market and the numbers grew each day.”
Bweyinda experienced the love of Christ, His redeeming power from witchcraft and was compelled to share this Good News of the bible with others since then.
