The story of Kampala, Uganda is filled with drama. It is symbolically a city set on 7 hills. Until 1875 it was believed that the tribal gods lived on these mountains. That is when the first Christian missionaries arrived. Believing that Jesus is Lord and teaching that he climbed the mountains to pray to the Most High God, they built their churches on these places as a witness to Ugandans.
At first, Catholic and Protestant missionaries fostered competition for converts. That was until the persecution began and they united in the person of Jesus. A group of 45 Anglican and Roman Catholic martyrs were executed during the persecution of Christians under Mwanga, kabaka (ruler) of Buganda (now part of Uganda), from 1885 to 1887.
We stayed at a guest house on the foot of the mountain where the first Christian church still stands beautifully as a testimony to the faith of those pioneers. I attended a Wednesday morning communion service where they shared from the gospel of Mark, took in 2 new members and welcomed me like one of their own.
Even now with some of the mountains hosting Islamic Mosques, the Church is still being built and is strong in Uganda.
Jimmy Farley
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- I'm a mid-thirties pastor who thinks it's all about Jesus and the church is hurtin' and I love my family and I get angry when I'm lonely around people and get energized conversing about truth and am impatient with comfortable believers and at home with non believers who believe and I'm discovering my faith is not a period but sometimes an exclamation point and sometimes a question mark and always a dot dot dot... Become a friend on FACEBOOK.
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