Mission to Uganda: Glory Of Christ Church

The Gospel Truth (Click to enlarge)Kampala is a city with some very large churches. Some with 20 to 30 thousand in attendance. Visiting television preachers usually want to be seen at one of these places of high visibility.

Each time he visits Uganda, Andrew has chosen not to do that. Instead he has visited Glory of Christ Church, led by Bishop Herbert Kiwanuka. The Bishop is a soft-spoken man who shares Andrew’s revelation of the grace of God, and for many years he felt quite alone in this city of high performance religion.

Glory of Christ Church (Click to enlarge)Glory of Christ Church sits in a poorer section of Kampala. It is reached by dirt road and has no parking facilities. More than 90 percent of those attending, walk to church. It has only recently gained indoor plumbing and each time Andrew visits he sees more improvements to the building. The congregation has grown from 2,000 to 4,000 worshippers on a Sunday, and Bishop Herbert sees the day when they will expand to accommodate 30,000.

Andrew and Jamie seated with Bishop Herbert and his wife Irene. (Click to enlarge)Herbert is a man of destiny. As a very young child he had very detailed visions of the risen Jesus Christ, even before he knew who the Lord was. Abandoned by his English father and Ugandan mother, he was taken-in by a loving English aunt, only to see her gunned down before his eyes during a bloody chapter of Ugandan history. The visions he received as a child helped preserve him with a sense of purpose until the day he was born again. This is a dramatic story we will share at a future date.

“Andrew, meet Andrew” (Click to enlarge)At dinner, following the service, a couple from the church brought their son to meet Andrew. They had been so transformed by the message of the Gospel Truth seen on TV everyday, that when their son was born they named him, Andrew Wommack.

“Andrew, meet Andrew Wommack.”

Filed Monday, June 6, 2010, midnight, Uganda time, AWMI Media Manager, Stephen Bransford