Bombo
Pentecostal Church has been in existence since 17th October
1998, when it started with 30 people, and has now grown into a dynamic
spirit-filled church of approximately 500 people.
Our Vision:
We dream of a church and a community where: -
§ Jesus Christ is exalted above religion and all other gods.
§ Jesus Christ is exalted above ungodly cultures and traditions
of men, such as witchcraft.
§ Jesus Christ is exalted above sinful pleasures such as sexual
immorality and drunkenness.
§ Jesus Christ is exalted above status, position, and power.
§ Jesus Christ is exalted above honored and revered personalities.
In a nutshell, we are here: -
“TO SEE JESUS CHRIST EXALTED ABOVE EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
ELSE.’
As Jesus Christ is exalted, we envision a church and community where:
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§ Moral Biblical values are upheld.
§ Hurting people can find love and care.
§ Hope is restored to hopeless situations.
§ The sick and diseased can find healing.
§ Families are Godly, united, and living in love.
§ We reach our community, nation, and world with the Gospel and
love of Jesus Christ.
Therefore, our mission is as follows: -
Our Mission (Action statement)
“TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNTIL CHRIST FILLS THE CHURCH,
THE COMMUNITY, THE NATION, TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, CAUSING HIM
ALONE TO REIGN AS KING.”
Our Mission begins with the Church. In order to realize our vision,
we as the church need to be the salt and light of the world. This
implies that Jesus Christ should be exalted above everything and
everyone else in our own lives first, and then advanced from us
to the world.”
We initially have five strategies that we are using to advance
our Mission and pursue our Vision
1. Organizational and Leadership Structure.
We have organized the Church ministries into five departments; Worship,
Fellowship, Discipleship, Service, and Evangelism.
Each department has a mission statement. For example:
Worship Dept.’s Mission is “To help the church lift Jesus Christ
in true and skillful worship through music and performing arts,
causing lives to be drawn closer to God.”
Fellowship dept. “ To organize the Church into various interest
groups through which God’s love can be expressed and experienced
by sharing, caring and meeting one another’s needs”
Each department has ministries through which it works.
2. Leadership Training
Lack of Leaders has been our greatest impediment. We are committed
to continually training and developing leaders who will carry out
the mission of the church. We have now trained and graduated about
40 leaders using the John Maxwell’s “Equip” Leadership training
manuals. We will be using the departments to continue to draw more
people for the training.
The training was so attractive that it even non-Christians were
drawn to it. Millie and I now also provide the same free training
to students in a nearby University.
3. Inter-department ministries -strategy.
Each department aims at extending its services to the other departments,
e.g. the evangelism department’s mission statement is “To train
and equip every believer to be a witness for Christ and to make
evangelism a way of life”. Their primary task is to ensure that
leaders, ministers, and members in all other departments are trained,
equipped, and participating in evangelism. Each dept. therefore
works at systematically infusing their ministry into all the other
depts.
4. Data base
We are building a bio data base for the Church so that we can monitor
the progress of our Christians and identify their areas of need.
5. Rigorous and prompt evaluations.
I am glad to say that now we are more ably handling whatever ministry
we have our hands upon. The next update will focus on what we are
doing and how God is blessing our work.
We will also give you profiles on various people that we think would
be of interest to you.
About Bombo
Bombo is the cradle of Islam in Uganda. The predominant tribe living
is Bombo is called Nubi and the people are called Nubians. They
originate from Southern Sudan. There is a common saying among the
Nubians that “one cannot be a Nubian and not be a Moslem”. The Moslem
question is not one that the Church can ignore.
We have seen only two Nubians and many non-Nubian Moslems convert
to Christianity. One of the Nubian converts was persecuted till
he had to leave Bombo, while the other reverted back to Islam. This
year we have heightened our effort to evangelize among the Moslems.
Specific prayer and fasting is being done to break the spirits of
Islam over Bombo. We are organizing ourselves to pray 5 times a
day just like they do, however, we will be praying for their souls
and for the love of Jesus to reach them. We also have carried out
some training on Moslem evangelism. The church is also planning
to rent a house for Yasin (the guy in the story below) in a Moslem
dominated area which will be our “prayer altar”. There we will pray,
claiming that area for Jesus. Below are stories of two members in
our congregation that converted from Islam to Christianity. They
are just examples of several others.
Please partner with us in prayer for the Moslem, and especially
Nubian community.
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