MARCH 2009 NEWSLETTER

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Praise the Lord peopel of God,
Violet and I greet you in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ; thanking God always for your prayers and support!

March kicked off with a bang with one event after another; right from Kyankaramata (Kyenjojo) on the 2nd to 7th, steadfastly mentaining momentum through Kakumiro (Kibale) two days later and now Bulisa this week! Well; "How beautifull are the feet of them that bring the good news".









The Kibale crusade

The Bulisa crusade

Kanungu on April 3rd

Team & family news



The Kyankaramata confrence was massive. And as usual we were outfaithed, but God was gracious. Eight local churches collectively hosted the 5-day event that had leaders and believers come from all over the district and beyond to take part. Seventy four participants reported on day one. 211 leaders plus host church members had signed attendence by Saturday.

Leaders were equiped with tools relevant for growth and excellence in their Christian life and ministry. Six speakers came from Kampala, Fort Portal and Mbararra.

Mighty works
God glorified Himself through mighty works as many participants were baptized and fillled with the Holy spirit and spoke in other tougues for the first time. Many pastors who were skeptic about the whole subject of spiritual baptsim and the gift of speaking in other toungues were ambushed by the Holy Spirit. They too received this precious gift and praised God for the confrence. The Speakers also ministered wonderfull in both word of knowledge and of wisdom to encourage and edify ...(read on)





It was two thin days between kibale and Kyankaramat. Actually the team literally connected from the former to the later event grouds! This was our first crusade of 2009, and this time around we partinered with Kabarole Christian Fellowship to do this event. Pastor Mwanguhya (KCF) preached alongside Rev. Mary Nakanjago of Saints
Gate Katwe. As usual we mobilised local-arae churches under their umbrella "Kibale Felloship of Born Agin Churches". A rough estimate suggests that over 300 adults plus hudreds of children responded to the alter call over the four days. A man who had been mad (insane) for most of his life is walking free as we speak now...(read more)




After Kyankaramata, the team has had 3 to 4 days to rest perhaps until we meet again on friday for prayer and felowship. We shall also be focussing on Bulisa which is due next week (24th), and to pray for our families, partners and friends. Keneth and Tim however leave for Bulisa on Saturdy a head of the team that will join them on Tuesiday. They will be doing final touches on things in Bulisa beforehand. Personally i will join the team on Wesnedy. I have two meetings; one on tuesiday with a section of partners, and another equally important one on wednesiday. This willl also be borrowed time for me to ensure that this newsletter is posted before i go to Bulisa.




After Bulisa the team will have plenty of time to rest until Rwibale (14th April) in Kabarole. As for me, i will be leading a three-man team to Kanungu on 3rd April for three working days in connection with the June event with Rachel Ministries. Gilbert (Mulago Paramedical School) and the missions coordinator Racheal Ministries and i will be meeting with local arae pastors and politicians at various levels in three maor towns; Kanungu, Kihihi and Butogot (Bwindi). Each one of us is also scheduled to speack in diffrent chrches on Sundy 5th morning, before doing a radio talk show mainly about the June event in the district. This trip is a major coordination act to set mobilisations rolling towards June-Kanungu! We need you prayers and support without which it is not possible to accomplish much!




Team news
You should have seen the glow on everybody's face at the news of Monica's return from her honey moon. Apparently she is officially to be unveiled at her new reisdence in Bunamuwaya next weekend when we return from Bulisa. She and Mark will use this time to unpack and unwrap their gifts and fix the new house. And so we are sure about onething next weekend: roast and roast and more roast !!!

Family news
This week offered a window of opportunity to hang with my family. Violet too had time off to rest and catchup with her friends and realatives. So baby-seating would be my trade all week, and some how i managed to strike a balance between me and my boys and with my wife. And since we have been talking about initiating swimming, I thought monday would be great to take them to Nina Childrens center. Tuesiday we took Giggi for his footbal training with Kampala Junior League (KJL) at Kira ground He is picking so fast after three months since he enrolled. It was wonderfull to watch him play.... (read more)

FEBRUARY 2009 NEWSLETTER

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Friends, I greet you once again in Christ Jesus. And if you are receiving our newsletter for the first time, my name is Jim Kirungi; a native missionary to Western Uganda called by our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Today the ministry is growing steadfast as we continue to link and network with more ministries, individuals and institutions from all walks of life for the sole purpose of evangelism in this part of the world. Please see About us.

Lots of feed back
Folks, am thrilled by the overwhelming feedback we have been receiving through your emails, phone calls and the record breaking visits to our website this February. Your enthusiasm and support has been such an awesome source of encouragement to us especially in this season seeing more of you coming on board to support this project, and to partake of what God is doing in this end time. I have never received so many phone calls from people many of whom I haven’t met personally, appreciating and stamping their support for the work of God in western Uganda. This thing is at loose folks; there is no stopping to what is about to happen in this part of the world! Some people have specifically requested to be notified of whatever need there is in the house. To be honest, there is always plenty of need and so shall it continue to be at least for some time! And as such, I humbly implore all of us to stamp our stake and practically come aboard this Kingdom Project so that millions of souls will be reached for Christ. And hey, remember we set apart one-day (Tuesday) every week to pray and stand in faith with our friends and partners concerning that which you are personally believing God for in 2009. And so it shall come to pass that when two people are in agrement concerning anything here on earth, it shall be done by the Father in Heaven!

Mobile School of Ministry
The first two months of the year have been a time of breathtaking hard work; thank God for Grace. It hasn’t been easy, but we have managed to lay plenty of ground for most of what we are going to be doing in the course of the year. I have had to do a spirited run of trips to about eight districts right from three days into the new year, linking and networking with pastors and local leaders for our upcoming events in those areas. Actual events begin in March with our first conference of the year due next week. This 5-day event to be held in a place called Kyanakaramata, about 20kms from
Kyenjojo town on the 2nd to the 7th of March will be a litmus taste of what we have in mind for the Mobile School of Ministry in order to come up with an appropriate and realistic design for the project. The tutor team is taking care of its transport budgets, while the host church will ensure their welfare which includes feeding and accommodation. Three to five area-churches are collectively taking part, and I must say they are very upbeat.

Kibale Crusade (10th – 15th March) Shortly after conference we will be heading to Kakumiro in Kibale district for our first crusade event, in which we are partnering with Kbarole Christian Felloship and the local area churches and the district council of Born Again churches we expect over 5000 people to be reached in that event.


God's Restoration plan for Kanungu

Remember the Kibwetere inferno of 2002 in which several hundred followers were torched alive in Kanungu and other parts of Uganda? Well, we see God revisiting his people in this newly created district, and this time round in an unprecedented fashion.....Read on

Inside news (about Team members)
Sister Monica Kajoina as we all know her had everything going her way two weeks ago, apparently earning another name to herself. There is no doubt her wedding to long time Irish journalist boyfriend Mark was nothing less than glorious! Frankly speaking however, things are not the same here with people like Monica absent on the team for a couple of weeks while she is away on her honey moon. We all can’t wait for her to return, except that mid March is literally forever!

Meanwhile passionate Humphrey Mujizi & Kenneth Byarunhanga on the other hand continue to be generous with their time and resourcefulness to The Project as they unsuspectingly plunge further into the system on a more like fulltime arrangement! Kenneth and I have a history stretching
back to those Campus days in 2006 when we first worked together in the Faculty of Arts students Fellowship. It was then that I first shared this vision with him. He recently came onboard fulltime with us until hopefully he lands a carrier job. So I think it would be good a thing that we all join our faith to believe with him in that regard. AMEN? I have travelled with him on most of the trips this year, and hey this guy is enjoying every bit of it. He raises his own funds for the trips and honestly, he is such a plus to the team. He also knows a friend who has a projector that we can hire much more cheaply. It also turns out that Humphrey has a broader shoulder for field coordination than the rest of us on the team, and apparently more and more responsibility is flowing his way in that regard. PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR TEAM. These guys are amazingly sold out!

Family news
Violet is letting up more and more active duty on The Project with the boys getting bigger at home. Talk about parrenting being forever key for us. Giggi (Christian )has become more proficient in his sworn trade of getting to the core of every functioning toy just to come face to face with the technology behind the animations of these gadgets. He also can’t wait to get to his 3rd Birth day where apparently his first bike officially awaits him on 22nd May. Zion on the other hand is not a guy for gadgets. Except; I don’t know a human being as animated as this young man! He made one year just last week, and Zizu as we all call him at home covers close to 10km on foot a day, and that’s just within the house! He has got an established personality too, as well as a great sense of focus! If you are planning to distract his attention from what he is headed for, chances are you won’t succeed. He also has such an anchored appetite that he will crush two sausages in your face and still grab his much slower elder brother’s stuff. By the end of day he has eaten twice as much as Giggi’s!

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
I have the opportunity to take you through our ministry Goals, plans, projects and working objectives for 2009, as well as a brief take on 2008 highlights and what is expected of you and us in the light of evangelism.

Highlights from 2008:
We are grateful to God for the partnerships we had with other ministries to hold 5 events in 2008....

2009 Ministry Goals, and Objectives:
January has passed really so fast. At the start of the month I decided to dedicate time to making numerous trips to the districts of Bulisa, Masindi, Rukunjiri, Ishaka and Kyenjojo to meet and connect with local-area pastors to plan and schedule

Christian Focused Media Initiative
Media is a key avenue to evangelism in these 21st century days. And with the existing regional community radio infrastructure, we have the opportunity to bring Christian programming aboard the main stream media that will ... read on

It shall not come nigh thee (Article): current Global economic crisis anlysis by Violet Kirungi
In this article Violet writes about the current "Global Panic Situation", seeking to enocourage and to point us to the ultimate hope we have in the Word of God.


Please view our ministry calendar & Events schedules - 2009

Become a patner and support this project

God's Restoration Plan for Kanungu

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Partners and friends,

Remember the Kibwetere inferno of 2002 in which several hundred followers were torched alive in Kanungu and other parts of Uganda? Well, we see God revisiting his people in this newly created district, and this time round in an unprecedented fashion!
Apparently, Westlink Evangelism Project is blessed to once gain partner with Rachael ministries on a 14-day outreach program coming up in the last week of June 2009.
The Mulago Paramedic school based outreach arm of the institution's Main Christian Union (CU)plans to send a team of Eighty and more committed Holy Ghost-filled; on fire for God and Hungry for Souls medical students from several departments and discplines of the profession.

There will be three crusade grounds; Kanungu town, Kihihi, and Botogota near inpenetrateable Bwindi forest Reserve. Activities will include;
open air crusades; confrences & seminars; Door to door outreach; Hospital ministry; Prison ministry; Health, medical and spiritual counselling; Carrier guidence to schooled youths; HIV/AIDS/Abstainance; Radio shows & evangelism on local comunity radios; Morning Glory and prayer walks; Jesus film project; Jesus match; Community service; etc.

Free medical services will include
Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Dental, Eye clinics Medical clinics & Spiritual clinics. Other outreach activities will include , Health promotion to the community.
morethan 500 patients are expected to b effectively reached by the medical ministry.

I challenge you all to stand with in faith and to suppport raise the budgtes especiialy for the essentail drugs (up to 1,000,000/=).
Our job is to effectively coordinate and mobilize stakeholders and the communities toensure that everybody takes part in this unprecedented event. Westlink’s Kenneth Mugabi will be be the overall coordinator for this event. He is already off to Kanungu on the first of a series of trips to kick start the project, initiate local church networks, meet with local pastors and community leaders, politicians and all relevant stakeholders.

once again i emplore you to pray and support this event. Kanungu is not going to be an easy ground t access. The effcets of Kibwetere are tangible, and undersatdably an established bearracratic structure is in place here and everybody is onguard.

We need a breakthruogh at every level as we prepare. Racheal ministry's Gilbert Birungi and I are scheduled to meet area MP Hon Amama Mbabazi on a host of issues and concersn. So we need everybody's support in this reagrd.
May God Bless you all

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Up date: TRAINERS' TRAINING COURSE

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Friends,

We are excited about new connections with C-NET’s Barbara Bailington and her six-man team of friends from Tottenharm Baptist church, coming to conduct a 3-week trainers'Training course with our teams and fellow workers that are reaching the ends of the earth elsewhere in the region for Christ.
Barbara's training brings into place a key piece of the puzzle as we position ourselves to train and equip local Christian in the region to effectively reach their communities. Our Mobile School of Ministry tutor-team will benefit a great deal of skills to enhance their spiritual giftings and anointing, as we gear towards equipping and empowering the rural church to operate in God’s best. We wouldn’t like anybody aboard our events calendar including members from other independent mission teams we are partnering with in the course of time to miss a session of this 20-day course.
Here is some web preview on the sessions: - Connect: Pictures to connect with people - Questions?: Find answers to some of life's most puzzling spiritual questions - Growth: Help new believers grow in their faith - Truth: Help all believers with a Christian Worldview and apologetics.
The C-NET team will be working with us on a several other projects for 2 weeks after the course. Barbara’s team arrives in Uganda on July 10th and the school begins on 12th up to 31st July 2009.

Brother Humphrey is coordinating this event. You will be receiving updates and new developments as it happens concerning this event. Humphrey will also be working with your team leaders to enusre your team's participation. There will also be details on our blog about the venue and other important issues.

Please contact Brother Humphrey at westlinkevangelismproject@yahoo.com for details on how you or your team can take part in this timely event.

JANUARY 2009 NEWSLETTER

FRIENDS,

I hope this newsletter finds you well and in faith. Am sure you are upbeat about what you have set yourself in agreement with God to accomplish this year. I also pray that your expectations for 2009 are much bigger than what you can actually believe for. Hopefully this is highlighted on your golden list of resolutions and goals for the next dozen months. I pledge to be your partner in faith so that come 1st January next year every single item on your faith list will eventfully feature in your archive of accomplishments. My wife and I and the rest of the team at Westlink Evangelism Project are committing ourselves to take time off every week to pray for you our friends and partners throughout the year. Hopefully you will do your part in excising your faith to work harder towards your goals, knowing that somebody is standing in agreement with you concerning that which you make mention of to God (Mathew 18:19). So please guard your heart\ that you will not weaver o lose focus in the course of time. AMEN!

IN FULL TIME MINISTRY NOW
As I mentioned in previous newsletters that I was going fulltime into this ministry at the beginning of 2009, I have been very much in preparation and in faith. Apparently there is so much to do and the ministry is increasingly demanding of my time and resourcefulness. There is no doubt that this timely decision is essential and seasoned for now, and like I have said before; I AM READY! I just don’t have time for anything else anymore; Many people in Western Uganda never have heard of the love of Jesus except for the abundance of religion, witchcraft and paganism. Jesus Himself said that "the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few." He tells His people to go (Matthew 28:19).

IN THIS ISSUE:
I have the opportunity to take you through our ministry Goals, plans, projects and working objectives for 2009, as well as a brief take on 2008 highlights and what is expected of you and us in the light of evangelism.

Highlights from 2008:
We are grateful to God for the partnerships we had with other ministries to hold 5 events in 2008....

2009 Ministry Goals, and Objectives:
January has passed really so fast. At the start of the month I decided to dedicate time to making numerous trips to the districts of Bulisa, Masindi, Rukunjiri, Ishaka and Kyenjojo to meet and connect with local-area pastors to plan and schedule

Christian Focused Media Initiative
Media is a key avenue to evangelism in these 21st century days. And with the existing regional community radio infrastructure, we have the opportunity to bring Christian programming aboard the main stream media that will ... read on

It shall not come nigh thee (Article): current Global economic crisis anlysis by Violet Kirungi
In this article Violet writes about the current "Global Panic Situation", seeking to enocourage and to point us to the ultimate hope we have in the Word of God.


Please view our ministry calendar & Events schedules - 2009

Become a patner and support this project

Masindi Miracle Center onboard with Westlink

Friends, only God can reward your petience and faithfulness in staying tune to this blog as i asked you to, in my last post. You are a wonderful and uncommon people!
In my previous update i told you about how warm and hospitable Donald’s father and his family were to us, and that God has chosen this particular family to serve Him. I didn’t mention however that a number of people in this family do not yet know Christ including Mr. Charles Kamese himself and Dona’s step mother. This is another opportunity for you to pray with us in placing a demand on each and every single soul in that family not perish.
Acts 16:31 is precise and clear; we have a promise that on the account of our faith in Jesus Christ, we shall be saved and our households too. Amen! The Greek word for “household” includes everybody in our lives; brethren, parents, relatives and all kindred, as well as our neighbors, friends, school-days friends & classmates and just about everybody… not forgetting our enemies.
I also told you that Donald and I were to meet with Pastor Robert Kibuuka of Miracle Centre Masindi about prospects of evangelistic activities in the area. Well, am glad to announce that this trip has been worth every turning of the bus’s wheel. The dates have already been set for a 10th – 15th March event in the town of Bweyale, about 20mins drive from Masindi town. Pastor Kibuka has agreed to work with Westlink Evangelism Project to organize this event.
We were amazed to learn that Christians in Masindi have been praying and crying out to God to send workers for the bountiful harvest in the district. There also is a widespread resolve for evangelism as believers are praying for God to give them their communities, villages and trading centers. In fact Pastor Kibuka and Masindi Miracle Center are doing a crusade in neighboring Hoima district. It’s important that we join our faith and believe with them for maximum impact that people will respond in large numbers to receive Christ.

Prayer requests:
1. Pray for the Salvation of Donald’s family members
2. Pray for Pastor Kibuka’s upcoming crusade in Hoima due next week.
3. Pray for Donald stay here in Uganda and his trip to England in less than 2weeks and the meetings and presentations that he will be conducting in the UK, before lifting off back to Mexico.
4. Pray for my family

See here for my next trip (to Rukunjiri) due on the 14th this month

Masindi are you Ready?

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Guys, are you still with moi?
The last time I checked, I had asked you to stay tuned! We are still in Masindi and guys; what a beautiful place it is here! The people are so friendly, warm and welcoming. In fact you never feel like a stranger here except by choice. And being a missionary, that’s one choice you don’t want to make!
Honestly, besides the warm hospitality and the food, the Kamese’s are a great and loving family. And talking about heritage, this family has a kind that is only by divine orchestration. You heard of men of God like Pastor Godfrey Kamese in Kampala? And Joshua Magezi of Kibuli Miracle Centre? Well, this is where they and other servants of God including McDonald hail from. In fact, its no longer a surprise to me that Donald has been entrusted with a huge call to minister God's love in a far country in the Americas. Boy he is only 23 and has been in ministry the last six years, planting churches in the nations and going around the world. He speaks 3 fluent international languages; English, Spanish, French & Swa; as in Swahil or as the Baganda say Swahili. I mean he is not only fluent in those langauges, but alo has a take on Garman. And something else. Did i say Luganda also? Well, yeah, Lugand also, except for the funniest thing: he can't make one short sentence in in Runyoro (his native). I told him to work hard on that one too, because he cant even buy his favorite delicacy - ROLEX (Chapati with roled egges). Dona as we all call him also ministers prophetically with his Guitor, ushering congregaions into the throne room of God. Not suprising, most of his worshiping is in spanish.

But anyhow, Dona and I lived together one year on Sir Apolo Kagwa Road before he relocated to the United Kingdom in 2001. He used to go to High Way College Makerere, and was peers then with today's gospel maestro Wilson Bugemeb. In fact he is one of Bugembe's pioneer buliga (student converts) at that school, about two years after Bugembe had been enroled from street life. Donald was so much on fire for God and like I usually say, ‘the things of God’ when he had just received Christ and he still is. While in college in East Sussex, Donald and I kept in touch, in fact throughout his five-year stay in the UK.
And among all the incredible things I have made note of this young mighty man of God is that from the day he boarded the salvation bus, Donald has not reminisced about the Egyptian cucumber. Not once, not twice. Nononono! Never! In fact his friends know him as Mr. No Nonsense. As in to him; there is no such a thing as black or white. No way! Everything is either Black OR White when it comes to life and the reality of life!
This is one guy who lost evrything to gain Christ, and he is not about to look back for anything in the world. His passion and spiritual insight is such fiery that if you are a lukewarm believer, you won’t find chance for compromise if you are around him.
What am trying to say is “what a privilege to spend a few days of his short stay in Uganda with such an anointed man of God! In fact Donald made some profound statement the other day when he said that he is the only Christian without an enemy. People this has left me thinkin’! I mean REALLY thinkin. And when I asked “how about the devil?” he said “the devil is God’s enemy, not mine. I just happen to be on God’s side”
Wow! And by the way this is a mere statement of faith only to you!!! This guy lives it and so do I, now that further enlighten!!! How about that?

Anyhow catch you kesho (tomrrow). Its 11pm here at the Kamese’s and everybody seems to heading for the nearest bedroom, and ther's John guy waiting to take us to the Guest wing. So, catch you again soon. And don't forget tomorroe we will be meeting with Pastor Robert Kibuka of Miracle Centre Masindi and other leaders. otherwise, I’ll be letting you in on how everythinf will go.

Remember LOVERULES and that JESUS IS ON THE WAY BACK TO TAKE HIS CHOSEN!!!

Jim Kirungi
Ministry Director (WEP)
+256 756 344 464
Jikirungi2001@yahoo.com
westlinkevangelismproject@yahoo.com
westlinkevangelismproject@gmail.com
www.westlinkproject.blogspot.com

Only 3 Days into the New Year & on the Road alraedy

Friends, Its good to know that you all have made it into 2009. Only three days into the New Year and we at Westlink are already on the road to the great town of Masindi. And travelling 2 by 2 on these trips as usual, this time am with my brother McDonald Kamese of Love is King Ministries in Mexico. For Donald, it has been two years since his last visit to Uganda. And so this is a one-stone-hitting two birds for him as we will also be visiting his paternal family in Kihande, about 1km from Masindi town. Actually we plan to camp at Kihande during our work-stay in Masindi.
Something about Masindi though; as we enter through Hoima district, i was welcomed by a sudden chill of a sleeping legacy. An infallible ancestral heritage, and if you have read a little Ugandan history, you certainly know something about ancient Bunyoro. In fact, you may not see the Statue of The Great Omukama (King) Kabalega, and neither the ruins of the great historic wars that took place here, but the traditional winds of legacy will surely whisper in your heart as if you were on an excursion trip to help the textbook tales on the traditional wealth of Bunyoro. The people of Masindi are called Banyoro. The Banyoro also occupy the district Hoima, Bugangaizi, part of Bulisa, Kibale and Kitagwenda.
Anyhow, I will save you the history! We are in Masindi to as part of our initial activities to meet and connect with regional local pastors and leaders as we shall be doing in the various other districts after here. No major contact yet, but we hope that by the time we are done here, we will have not got major contacts,but rathe we’ll have met several of the pastors and discussed about and scheduled some of the major events we are looking forward to hold in the first quarter of 2009.
Just you just don’t click next (wherever) and by the time you get there I will have posted updates on what may have transpired on this trip.
Otherwise stay tuned and God bless.
We are getting off the bus now, but first we have to find an internet café so I can post this update before we head for Kihande!

LOVERULES and don’t forget that JESUS IS ON THE WAY BACK TO TAKE HIS CHOSEN!!!

Jim Kirungi
Ministry Director (WEP)
+256 756 344 464
Jikirungi2001@yahoo.com
westlinkevangelismproject@yahoo.com
westlinkevangelismproject@gmail.com
www.westlinkproject.blogspot.com