DISCIPLESHIP MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL

Update from Santa Barbara Presbytery from the Central Coast trip

This summer the Santa Barbara Presbytery from the Central Coast of California sent a team of nine members to work along side a team from Discipleship Mission International and help build a new classroom in Namatumba, Uganda.

Here is team leader Rich Smith's report from the trip:

Friday, July 24, 2009, 11:57 AM

Wow! At last we are home, after a 34 hour journey from the other side of the planet. Guess that shows how big God is. It was good to sleep in my bed last night and feel well rested this morning.

On my last update we returned from Sigulu Island with a 6.5 hour epic journey, partly done with vans called "taxis" on rough country roads. That was Sunday. On Monday I was able to visit and speak to some classes at the Busembatia Agape Christian School, and we went to the Nambatumba Agape Christian School to dedicate
the classrooms we had helped finance and build.

Along the way we detoured to meet the district government representative, a young Christian man who had just returned from America (DC area). He expressed his appreciation for our (and Patrick Baligasima's) efforts at promoting education.

The day we left the construction site looked much better and the windows were being installed. The hallway outside the classrooms was finished as well as the walls and ceiling of the classrooms. The floors had not yet been paved, and the doors were not yet delivered, but we lined up in front of 150+ secondary students and Sandy, my co - leader of the Impact team asked God's blessing on the classrooms and all who would occupy them or had worked on them. The workers were sad to see us go and I am bringing home a memorial brick of my time there.

The bricks for the classroom are baked mud, more fragile than ours, and often include fingerprints of their makers.

So what happened on the trip? We learned humility by how we were welcomed everywhere; we learned how to minister intentionally through hospital visitation with sugar and soap, slum visitation with invitations for free lunch, and street evangelism for poor working people. We served diligently, blistering our hands and
getting dirty while learning new trades at the construction site (60,000 bricks, plus sand and water for mortar), helping with cooking and clean up at meal-times, and
participating in ministry events. People commented that they had not believed whites to do such things. I was able to encourage many teachers and students about
the importance of education. We told our stories of God in our lives at 3 church services, 4 outdoor evangelistic crusades, 3 school assemblies, and 2 Ministry Leaders conferences, with many people coming to Christ at the crusades and school assemblies (Among our own team we learned to work together supportively, appreciating God's unique gifts given to each team member so we could function
cohesively together. Finally, we built friendships with the Kampala team through living and ministering with them, that are deep and I expect long lasting. Thanks to your support and prayer, we saw God is in and at work in Uganda.

- Friday, November 6, 2009

2009 WORLD VISION POST

Over 2 million people in Uganda need emergency food right now.
Almost 1 in 4 Uganda children is underweight.
Severe malnutrition is the number one killer of children under the age five at Matany Hospital in Uganda.

"These children cannot wait for food price to come down or food rainfall patterns to stabilize. They need support now, " says Rudo Kwarnamba, National Director for World Vision Uganda.

Please donate now toward seed to feed Agape School children.

- Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Praise Report

Dear Supporters of DMI,

We have many praises to report as DMI continues to grow! We have continued to reach Ugandans with the gospel of Jesus. During the Fall of 2008, we held several crusades and over 300 people came to know the Lord. We have also been holding several conferences for our pastors so that they may increase in their fellowship with one another and in their knowledge of the Lord as he moves in His people in Uganda.

We have many praises!

A generous donor provided for the cost of the building of one boy's home which is now underway. Many boys who had no place to live or be schooled soon will have a home.
Two other generous donors provided for the purchase of prime, fertile farm land for Agape Schools which will provide food and profit for the running of Agape Schools. The timing of the purchase and harvest of the land is amazing as Tanzania and Kenya are facing drought which will ultimately pressure food prices in landlocked Uganda. One hundred local volunteers have been clearing the land for planting!
The completion of Agape Schools science lab is underway with a new roof! The lab is needed to maintain the school's accreditation.
An local engineer from Patrick's church is helping DMI secure a government radio permit for broadcasting his radio program with worship and his preaching of the gospel with breakthrough technology. This has long been one of Patrick's dream to reach the rural poor with the gospel through radio.
A nine member Presbyterian team from the California Central Coast, USA, called IMPACT will be ministering with Patrick and his mission for about three weeks in Uganda this July. They will be doing street ministry, ministry with Patrick's many children and doing construction on an Agape Schools classroom.
The wife of the host family who housed Patrick this summer during his USA visit has successfully maintained sponsorships for a group of Patrick's students. These very needy children have now received a uniforms, shoes, meals, books and schooling.

SOME OF YOU KNOW THAT I SPENT A FULL MONTH PRAYING AND FASTING FOR THE US IN 2006 NOV AT THE WORLD PRAYER CENTRE IN COLORADO SPRINGS AND FLORENCE IN OREGON.

I WAS PROMPTED AND LED TO PRAY FOR THE USA AFTER DISCOVERING HOW US CHURCHES REGARDLESS OF DENOMINATION, MISSION OR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, INDIVIDUALS, PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE US GOVERNMENT DO SUPPORT GOSPEL PROPAGATION AND CHARITY WORKS IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD.

FOR MY COUNTRY UGANDA WE HAVE HAD THE CHANCE OF 2 AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (former president Bill Clinton and the current president George Bush) VISITING OUR NATION AND GIVING AID TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA, IMPROVE ON HEALTH FACILITIES AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS AND WITH SUCH, THE ENEMY IS NOT HAPPY AND
THIS IS WHY OTHER NATIONS THAT HATE THE GOSPEL AND NAME OF JESUS ARE MAD AND AT WAR WITH THIS GREAT GOD FOUNDED NATION.

ONE NIGHT AT THE WORLD PRAYER CENTRE I HAD A VISION AND IN WHICH I SAW A VERY LARGE CROWD OF AMERICAN PEOPLE AND IN THE MIDST OF THIS LARGE GATHERING WAS A VERY HIGH METALLIC POLE WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG FLYING HIGH IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AS THE WIND BLEW.

PEOPLE KEPT GAZING AT THE FLAG WITH THEIR HEADS HIGH AND WITH SMILES ON THEIR FACES UNTIL DARK CLOUDS FROM NO WHERE COVERED THE SKIES AND THEN DROPS OF RAIN STARTED TO COME FROM HEAVEN AND THEN THE CROWD STARTED SCATTERING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS UNSTEADILY.

AS PEOPLE WHERE TRYING TO MOVE AWAY SOME PEOPLE CAME AND CUT THE METAL POLE FROM THE GROUND LEVEL QUICKLY CAUSING A BIG FALL OF THE POLE TO THE GROUND INJURING SOME PEOPLE AND AT THIS MOMENT THE RAIN STOPPED AND PEOPLE STARTED TO GATHER AGAIN BUT THEY WERE ASKING EACH OTHER WHAT
HAPPENED TO THE FLAG AND WHO CUT DOWN THE POLE.

I SAW EVERY PERSON CONCERNED BUT WITH CONFUSION SAYING THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED, WE MUST GET THE POLE WITH THE FLAG BACK AND HIGHER THIS TIME. AND AT THIS POINT A LARGE GROUP OF MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL AGES DRESSED IN RED ROBS GOT HOLD OF THE POLE FROM THE GROUND WHERE IT WAS LAYING BUT THE AMERICAN FLAG HAD BEEN TORN INTO PIECES WITH MANY HOLES.

I SAW 3 MEN PUTTING THEIR HANDS AT ONCE IN A BAG THAT WAS ON THE GROUND NEAR WHERE THEY WERE STANDING AND GOT OUT A NEW AMERICAN FLAG CAUSING APPLAUSE IN THE WHOLE CROWD.

LET US DIG DIPPER THIS TIME AND LET US BE ON GUARD TO PREVENT THE ENEMY FROM BRINGING DOWN OUR STRENGTH AND MIGHT AGAIN. I LOOKED SO CAREFULLY AND SAW THE POLE WHICH WAS BIG AND SO HEAVY PUT BACK IN THE NEWLY DUG HOLE WITH THE NEW FLAG ON.

MANY STARTED TO CHANT AND SHOUTED FOR SO LONG WITH HALLELUJAH'S AND I HEARD THEM SAYING AMERICA IS BACK IN HER PLACE AND AT THIS TIME THE PEOPLE DRESSED IN RED WHO HAD PUT THE POLE WITH THE US FLAG IN A NEWLY DAG HOLE SAID, WE SHOULDN'T BE FAR FROM THE POLE AND FLAG, LET US GUARD THIS POLE AND THE FLAG TO PREVENT ANYONE TO TEMPER WITH OUR NEW
EFFORTS AGAIN.

THIS SAME VISION HAS OCCURRED TO ME AGAIN AS I WAS PRAYING WITH FASTING IN VENTURA IN CALIFORNIA RECENTLY IN AUGUST...

I feel we need to join our brothers and sisters in the United States of America in prayers that God intervenes in this Nation. Please pastor do notify all our intercessors in Discipleship missions Intl. to pray and encourage all churches to do so or even you can inform other pastors in our network and others you know including in Kenya, Tanzia and those in any other countries.

America will be having elections for a new president on 4th Nov and I believe the next president matters alot to all of us and the whole world at large.

Pray that people will elect a president who will fight for Godly values in the white house and will know what to do with the economy and have godly wisdom in dealing with Nations that hate Israel and the gospel.

Bishop Patrick Baligasima

- Tuesday, October 7, 2008

When we become followers of Christ, we inherit his poor. The root cause of poverty is spiritual. Without hope, it is difficult for those living in poverty to access resources that will change their lives. It is our mission to bring hope to the hopeless. Please prayerfully consider partnership, sponsorship, or direct involvement in this ministry. Your efforts and support make a huge impact and a significant difference in the Kingdom of God being advanced in the lives of African people and the continent at large.

- Saturday, August 16, 2008

The Discipleship Mission International is a non-denominational apostolic, pentecostal, world outreach indigenous Christian organization based in Uganda, Africa.

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