Hello Dear Rev Pastor Samson Okongo and the staff of Unite4Africa,
Is with joy we are sending you our new about the work we are doing where by the grace of God.
We had leadership training in the month of April and 30 people attend it in my house.on the 09-april 2012 i had my 40 years ald anniverstry.
The 26 May 2012 we had water baptism and in the Night we had holy spirit baptism.
The U4A team from USA took a trip to visit the Wonji-Shoa Emmanuel Church School last march. The team has observed that the school is successfully serving the community in many ways.
569 students from nursery to sixth grade are currently enrolled and almost all of them come from extremely disadvantaged homes. And 25 jobs have been created. Our future goal is to offer classes through grade 10.
More than 90 children, and many of their family members, have committed their life to Christ as a result of the ministry of the school.
The town recently gave the school an award for…
Joyce Odoyo and Caroline Onyango trained girls of between ages 12 – 15 years from Kandaria community.
Thirteen girls were in attendance and they tackled:
The team also discussed with the girls the ways that will expose them to sexual behaviors and they need to be wary of e.g. dressing mode, accepting gifts from men, coming home late. They emphasized that sex is for married couples.
The Langbinsi hub is situated in the north eastern corridors of the northern region of Ghana. It is about two and half (2.5) hours’ drive from Tamale. It shares boundaries with the Nakpandure hub which is further north of Langbinsi. The hub is led by Pastor Asher Mohammed Peter, the head pastor of the local Assemblies of God Church in the Langbinsi community.
About two weeks ago the youth of the church were motivated after their Pastor challenged them to use bridges stories as a tool for personal witnessing. They went into a number of villages resulting in eight (8) new souls being won and about eight (8) persons who had abandoned church also rededicated their lives to Christ and started going to church again.
As a young missionary, Okongo Samson knew that sharing Christ in war-torn Northern Uganda and other African/Arab countries would be very risky. But his kidnapping by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army, led by cult-leader Joseph Kony, brought him a level of pain and despair he’d never known. Faced with a life of slavery and killing, it seemed to Okongo that his life was over at age sixteen. But God had other plans. Through a literal miracle, Okongo escaped the army’s camp, traveled by foot to Julu and then taken to Uganda’s capital city then to Kisumu, Kenya. His escape was a miracle! For the past several decades, he has carried the Gospel to the most unreached nations of the world. In 2005 he founded Unite4Africa which is base in Tucson Arizona.
As we all know that Jesus envisioned His church as a militant church. ” I will build my Church and the gates of Hades will not over power it”(Matt 16:18 NET). According to His promise the church in Ethiopia particularly in Welenchity area has become militant and now advancing the kingdom of God in a mighty way.
We are able to plant 6 churches in three months. As I reported before the village Rukecha in Welenchity area was one the centers of the throne of Satan resides. There is a sub village named by Neye. In that small sub-village many people worshiped idols and their anescesteral spirits under the tree. We went there with our apostolic mission team to do evangelism a month ago. God has done miracle and He gave us…
Ethiopia: Assessa Region Conference ReportThe town Assessa is located 185Km South to Nazareth in west Arsi Zone. 99% of the population is Muslim. The rest is animist and Christian. Few years ago 3 Christians were killed and few churches burnt in the place called Merrarro. But, God is on move in a mighty way in the area. There are 7 new local churches planted in the area despite of all the challenges.
From February 26 – 28 /2012 we had a fire conference. And God has given us a wonderful time.
UPDATES FROM GHANADuring Easter weekend U4A in collaboration with a local Assemblies of God church in Tamale received Donations for Orphans. The men ministry in the local church reached out to U4A leadership seeking where they could partner to serve during the Easter festivities. U4A director seize the opportunity and organized other local resources to partner the said church to make a one-time donation to a much needed Christian orphanage thus “Anfaani Children’s Home” in the city of Tamale in northern Ghana. The donation included;
KENYA UPDATESThe sanitary pads for girls project received a boost with Carol Mchugh from Canada donating 5 boxes to Enoosampurrmpurr Primary School. We are hoping this pads will ensure the girls stay in school and acquire the education the need instead of absconding lessons because of the monthly periods. We are praying for…
How Big is U4A’s Ministry?Recently a U4A supporter wrote us to ask about just how big is the ministry of Unite 4 Africa. We thought the answer might be of interest to others so we decided to share it.
U4A places great emphasis on the principle of multiplication. Every person that a U4A trainer instructs is expected to practice what they have learned and also teach and train others. U4A continues to offer additional training on this topic and other subjects throughout the year.
U4A founder Okongo Samson has been employing this principle of multiplication for many years, long before officially incorporating Unite 4 Africa. Under his guidance, U4A staff and volunteers are primarily focused on work in communities of Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. The multiplication principle has allowed their work to be proliferated throughout the continent of Africa extending to at least 17 nations.
Last November, Reverend Okongo and Scott P. were invited to speak at the mosque in Tamale, Northern Ghana. They and the team traveled to the mosque with great anticipation of all that God was going to do in that place, the hearts that He was going to move through the message laid on Reverend’s heart. But when they arrived at the mosque, they were met with overwhelming grief that hung over the dispersing crowd like a dark, heavy cloud ready to pour forth the rain. The Reverend and his team were told to return to their lodges, as no messages would be given that day. Upon further inquiry of the happenings of that day, the team was told that the daughter-in-law of the chief of the mosque had just passed away while giving birth to a precious baby girl and that the people were relocating for mourning and funeral processions. When the Reverend asked of the whereabouts of the baby, he was told that she had been given to an old widow to be cared for as an orphan. It was unclear as to the whereabouts of the father, other than knowing that he is not present or involved.
Let us pause here for a moment to allow for some cultural understanding. Within this Islamic culture in Northern Ghana, men are not present during childbirth, nor are they allowed to see their wives or newborn babies for a variable amount of time after delivery, lasting from weeks to years. Typically, the men move out of the house after the baby is born. This is also where the taking of additional wives becomes very common, as the man is often denied intimacy with his wife for one to two years.
This baby girl was now an orphan, one of thousands upon thousands in communities across Africa who would normally be sent straight away to whichever local orphanage could accept her, sent out from her own community to be raised by other orphan children. So when the Reverend asked to see the baby to be able to pray for her and over her, it sent quite a shocker throughout the community.
But by God’s leading, the door was opened for the team to see the baby and pray over her, her provisions, and her future. A gift of $46 USD was given for the baby’s care and nutritional provisions, as hands were laid on her in prayerful intercession. And a spiritual father was born unto her, this precious orphan from day one, prayed over by the visiting preacher, provided for by the generosity of God, taken in by the community, and given the name Tipaya, which means Hope.
Precious Hope is now 8 months old and has been growing strong and healthy. She was adopted by a widow in the community and has been cared for every step of the way. Upon his last visit to Ghana this past June, Reverend met up with Hope and her mom in the market place, as word swept through the marketplace that Hope’s father had returned to see her. The community as a whole had enveloped this girl, with a man having been designated as her godfather to support them as a family. The community gave account of how the $46 has been used and stretched out over the past 8 months, and is still being used for the growth and health of Hope. The meeting also afforded the Unite 4 Africa team the opportunity to share the God’s Word with the Muslim community, as a relationship had been established through which the message could be received. It was such a glorious reunion of this precious baby, who is no longer an orphan, but is being raised up by her community of origin in a healthy family setting.
You too can be involved in the raising up of these precious orphans in families of their own community, keeping them out of over-burdened orphanages that are not capable of teaching what a family structure should look like. With just a little help, Unite 4 Africa is encouraging communities to take in their orphans, placing them with families and raising them with the help of the village. With as little as 82 cents a day, families are able to clothe and feed an orphan from the community and raise them up in the way they should go. Will you join us in this effort? Will you partner with us so that we may rejoice of more Hope living and growing throughout Africa?
We just spent the past two days out in the village, and while I have been there many times before, somehow this time was very different. I saw a devastating aspect of it that I have yet to see. We spent the afternoon yesterday passing out school uniforms and mosquito nets donated by HOH and Orphnas projects Aids to just a small handful of the orphans who live in that community. Kandaria village has a total population of about 4000 people. Over three hundred of those are orphans being cared for by others in the community, to the best of their abilities. In my feeble mind, that is an alarming number, and to see even a small group of them all brought together absolutely broke my heart. We met with 45 orphans. 45. That means there are 90 mommies and daddies who are dead, just for this small group of children. That’s astounding! Many families don’t have enough to feed their own mouths, not to mention the mouths of other people’s children. This is a very serious reality, and it’s difficult to truly embrace the devastation of it all until you look into the eyes of the 3 year old who hasn’t eaten a meal in days, who is took weak and too malnourished to even walk, and who has to be carried everywhere she goes. This 3yr old was smaller in size than my 16-month-old daughter, and my heart absolutely broke to watch her.
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