Square Ministries Africa

A human being is naturally created to move forward. This paradigm explicitly comes from the time of conception. Growing to nine months, the baby will naturally force its way out to see the world. The cry they make, according to some cultures, explains that the previous world “in the womb” was more comfortable than what he wanted to be. This explains why people in different stages of growth struggle to make this world better in terms of human development.

Please join us in prayers and also in support of raising at least 30 more sewing machines needed to cover half of the school.

Click here to get personal testimony from the beneficiaries. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R27E6wWZbwwhGyxLOBYSvOv_w2pwtqx4/view?usp=drive_link

As we celebrate Palm and Easter Sundays in different styles, remember the reason Jesus came to us: “to seek and save the lost.”

Square Ministries Africa has launched an intercultural exposure program for young missionaries and those aspiring to be missionaries. Many people have always wished for a safe haven in which to learn about other cultures. They frequently read books, which is a good thing, or attend conferences where they hear from those who have been there in person.

Square Ministries Africa would wish to expose the aspirants to this needed ministry as a priority whereby a person leaves his or her personal comfort and explores a new environment. One thing people must know is that being in a different culture is not suffering; yes, you miss your people and the things you love and like most, but the joy of being in a different context is greater than that. Sometimes people wonder how the first disciples of the first century were doing it. Traveling from one place to another, remember that during that time there were no flights or trains to get to their destinations quickly. They were walking thousands of miles and using unpowered boats, which were spending months along the Seas. But today, in just 24 hours, you are around the globe.

Square Ministries Africa would wish to offer this as part of developing young people who will take the gospel to another level, which the present generation has failed to achieve. Someone can ask a question. What do you mean? Our generation is failing, though we are trying, but things are falling apart under our watch. The prayer is that may God raise a new generation that will be more adequate than ours. Perhaps you can be part of it by training one person at time that will go one more mile than you and all of us.

It is very hard to expose someone for one day or two weeks, then send him or her to a different culture tomorrow. Indeed, to be adequately exposed, it takes between six months and two years. As a missionary, it can take two to ten years to have a complete influence in a new culture. You might think that this is too long, but the truth is that in order to make change in a different culture, you need to first be changed or submerged into that culture.

Square Ministries Africa, through partnerships with different entities of organizations, and churches, will provide suitable guidance to the aspirant missionaries, the New Global Redemptive Changers (NGRC), and the opportunity to touch, taste, smell, see, and hear. The NGRC will be able to use the five physical senses of a human being but also the hidden sense of listening from God whispering to them each day for proper discernment.

The NGRC will be exposed to different socioeconomic and ministerial activities, such as:

• Living in the communities
• Serving the needy, widows, and orphans
• Missions to different groups of people
• Participation in workshops for sustainable rural development
• Explore the beauty of Africa.
• Active in church activities
• Etc

What a joy to be in a new setting and meeting new people who are curious to find out what God is revealing to them each day!

The week of April 24–30 was dedicated to the training of 150 clergy and lay readers in Sebei Diocese in Eastern Uganda. What a wonderful place to be! Slopping up and down on the hills, we were able to have two separate meeting places, one in the town of Kapchorwa and another in Bukwo, on the border with Kenya, to allow people nearby to come over. We were blessed to have the Bishop of the Diocese, Rt. Rev. Paul Masaba, who fully participated in our training. The purpose of this training was to help church leaders change their attitudes toward their jobs and develop self-sufficiency while they spread the gospel. As we spread the gospel, we hope to challenge cultural norms because a thriving church requires members who are strong spiritually, financially, and physically.

Once more, theology of work offers Christians and church leaders direction on how to utilize all the tools, abilities, and skills at our disposal to change lives. On Sunday, April 30, preaching took place in two different churches where many Christians had gathered for various services as the culmination of the training.

What next? This training served as an icebreaker to meet everyone. We want all participants to bring their spouses to our training levels 2 and 3. Those of you with families will understand what I mean when I say that in our society, women have little influence over cultural norms and family finances.

We explain to the participants at the beginning of our training that we are here to learn from one another. This has turned out to be the case because we discovered that while some people are making significant progress in reducing poverty, they still required confirmation that their actions are biblically mandated. Keep praying for us to achieve our goals in due time!

Finally, I’d like to thank you for willing to support Square Ministries both materially and spiritually. To God be the glory!

Square Ministries Africa

There are so many things to thank God for this last year 2022, as the little ones say “thank God for the gift of life,” God has been so faithful to each one of us and to the Square Ministries Africa for safety and provision.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support in one way or another, our success and progress in expanding God’s kingdom depend on working together as we share information and resources in reaching out to our neighbors.

We want to thank God so much for allowing Square Ministries Africa to have conducted Theology of Work for the third time in which 250 pastors have been trained in the Diocese of Bukedi (Eastern Uganda). It has been a success story in which pastors can carry out their calling with a happy mind and soul in self-reliance for poverty alleviation of their families and parishioners. The training was crowned by the distribution of 250 Africa Study Bibles with training on how to utilize it in their daily life. What a joy to have a very rich Bible like this in their hands!

As you know SMA has been working with various groups of elderly, widows, needy, and young people in different activities. This year we got a surprise report about microfinance which is a loan scheme with no interest for the money to circulate among the members. We started this five years ago and during COVID-19 lockdown we thought that it will not work but we have received very good reports of how the women have become the pillars of the households in providing school fees for their children and building their own homes/shelters. We will be sharing more about these women one by one along the way this year and we say thank you so much for being behind the scenes in prayers and physical support for them.

As we enter the new year 2023, I will encourage you to continue to be behind the scene as you pray with us and in case you would wish to partner with Square Ministries Africa please do so. Here are some items for prayers.

1. Pray for all activities SMA is involved in reaching out in child education, pastors’ training, family booster initiatives, micro-business loans, animal rearing, providing water, electricity, and shelters to the needy, and in-patients outreach to be expanded to various hospitals.

2. Pray for the teams and individuals who will be visiting Square Ministries Africa in Uganda, praying for their safety and having an enriching experience for the glory of God.

3. Pray for my involvement in traveling and attending conferences, seminars, and workshops within the continent and overseas, and pray for God’s provision and safety.

4. Pray specifically for the GAFCON IV which will be held in Kigali Rwanda in April, pray for God’s guidance for the entire gathering, pray for the right delegates, discussions, and strong commitment to being faithful to the Holy Scriptures. I will personally attend and pray for God’s favor and anointing. Since many delegates are self-sponsored, there is discouragement among the believers who wanted to attend, pray that godly men and women will be able to meet the requirements.

Please share with us in case you have a prayer request on squareministriesafrica@gmail.com 

Follow SMA 2022 in pictures on the following link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gg57Mon2UvmFO-nzf1uVZjHe7wJzGKul/view?usp=share_link 

‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ Mt 25:35-36.

We have been struggling with the Pandemic, as it was getting over the war in Eastern Europe erupted, and if that was not enough, climate change of unpredictable drought and heavy rains hit many areas where people are dying everyday.

We have been praying, but as the word of God is clear that faith without action is dead, at the University we have been collecting money to help the affected areas due to drought in the North -East. When we started praising God for the rain just few days ago the rain hit the Eastern part of Uganda whereby several people died in the floods.

Part of this Eastern area, is where SMA has been conducting training on Theology of Work. We thank God for guiding us because at least church ministers in the area are able to cope with the situation through self sustaining projects they have established and initiated to the communities.

We still pray that God will open a door for SMA to have a training in the region where the drought has been rampant, sometimes we say, “do what you can, and God will do the rest.“

In response to the high cost of living we are facing the moment, SMA has started a hospital ministry outreach to take hampers of uncooked food to the patients in the nearby hospital. We really thank God for his provision and allowing us to pray and feed those who were sick and hungry. The idea began three years ago where we thought that we can mobilize community to take cooked food. However, as time went by, we approached the Hospital management, and we were advised to take food items in which the in-patients through their caretakers can prepare good meals through the available services at the hospital. From there a memorandum of understanding was signed between SMA and the Hospital management. This last Tuesday was our second time to offer prayers and gift in-kind to the patients. We believe that God will continue to expand our initiative as he brings in new players and partners for this noble cause.

May the good Lord continuously be with you, as you keep praying for those who are suffering from the high cost of living all over the world.

Do not hesitate to contact us through
squareministriesafrica@gmail.com

Five years ago, I had a dream to train and give Africa Study Bibles to the church leaders. Little did I know that God can work in his own way to achieve that! I am so glad that some of you have played a big role in getting these Bibles which we were able to give to the church leaders in the first half of 2022. (_{see photos here:} https://photos.app.goo.gl/hBmeTQGcmkDYeNHs6, https://photos.app.goo.gl/XyW54K5oxpEWzmsV9, https://photos.app.goo.gl/By2vtZdtMQk9UPxV8

Square Ministries Africa, in partnership with Bible Society Uganda, carried out a fruitful training of 250 priests, deacons, and Lay readers. The main goal of the training was to equip church leaders with the Bibles which speak into their context but also to be conversant on how to use them. ASB is a handy Bible any Christian can possess but the problem we face over here is to know how to get information out of it. We took them through that Bible on how to identify its signs and features, and their interpretation, application, and delivering the message to the congregation.  

You can watch what the Bishop is saying here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hNcN1ZcapiPdE6E29

As I conclude, special thanks to OASIS International for providing and shipping the Bibles to us, to the church men and women of Bukedi Diocese for their partial contribution for the ownership and to all of you for your prayers and support towards this noble cause. Again and again keep praying for Square Ministries Africa and those involved in expanding God’s kingdom in various capacities.

Blessings!!

(_{In case you would like to be involved in one way or another contact us at squareministriesafrica@gmail.com})

THE YEAR 2022

Happy New Year 2022!

I hope you had good celebrations of Christmas and New Year’s Day!

At Square Ministries Africa, we rejoice in the Lord for the far he has brought us. He is and He will be on the throne forever, despite some challenges but our God still reigns.

The year 2021, has been a challenging one like the previous one but God has transformed challenges into opportunities for Square Ministries Africa. We were able to reach out to many people more than before.  

Apart from many activities SMA is involved in; the climax was the training of 500 hundred pastors and their spouses on Theology of Work. Talking as a person on the ground, women have been so much appreciative to sit together with their husbands as they plan for self-reliance family projects for which was not there before. There is much improvement in the pastors’ homes!

What is 2022 bringing to us? The master planner is God of the Universe, but as individuals, we have dreams of what we need to achieve.

Apart from the existing programs, this year we would like to reach out to the remote area where Female Genital Mutilation is still the order of the day. SMA would like to join other stakeholders to break that cycle of ignorance by training church and local leaders for Theology of Work. Let us pray and believe that by the time we have three to four trainings, there would be a change of the mindset. 

Please take some time as little as 1 minute and pray for SMA to reach out and to get enough support to sustain the ongoing programs and to be self – reliance in the near future.

In case you need to know more about SMA you can contact us on

squareministriesafrica@gmail.com

 +256 750 604 978  

Just recently I was meditating on the well-known words of Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” There are four key words in this verse of prosperity, no harm, hope and future. Having wealth without harm is my prayer for everyone. It is good to have basic needs and also have extra coins to share with others. Again having hope in God for the future someone said that it is like “sleeping like a baby” whereby the mother is always in charge.

Friends, time is going by and things are changing tremendously but let us have hope in God for a better future for all our needs will be provided accordingly. This is the hope we are now preaching today! Just a few days ago, the churches and other related activities were lifted after three months of lockdown. At least last Sunday congregants were able to meet, to sing, to pray and to hear the word of God in a fellowship, how beautiful it is!! Yes the virtual services on zoom are fine but it is always better to move to a sanctuary named “God’s meeting place.”

Thank you so much for your prayers, churches have started fellowships up to 200 people. Schools are still closed but Universities will resume by November 2021 with physical learning to those who are not able to be online. We also thank God so much for the “drops” of vaccines which are coming in as donations, now people have different options of AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, and Janssen & Janssen to arrive at the end of October. Some people are still reluctant for the jabs but many are actively going to nearby centers for the vaccine. I do not know your perception but in all let’s keep praying for the pandemic to go the way it came.

At Square Ministries Africa, we are re-organizing to see how things can continue to move, please pray as usual for the following items:

1. Africa Study Bible distribution: If you have been following my updates, we have been praying and fundraising for 250 Bibles to give to the pastors in Eastern Uganda. Now the Bibles are ready to be distributed with a training of how to use them effectively. Pray for God’s guidance.

2. Training Of Trainers: Square Ministries Africa in partnership with another organization will conduct a training of 120 people selected among the 500 trained since last year for equipping them to train their Christians in Theology of Work. Pray for the smooth planning, execution and resources for the whole process.

3. Pray and act as God will direct you!

May the good Lord be with you as we pray for one another

Love and prayer

Dear Friends

We are in daunting times. People are sick. Others are taking care of their loved ones who are badly off, while others have lost their loved ones, their jobs, their livelihoods and so on.

However, much we may try to say we can be strong and will overcome the pain, at some point, one can break down. The situation is not normal at all and it’s taking its toll on so many of us, emotionally, mentally, physically and financially. We can’t pretend any more that is well.

Knowing that your loved one is very ill, in pain, holed up somewhere and you can’t extend a helping hand physically and emotionally is so draining, so daunting. Being ill and you’re locked up somewhere where no loved one can reach you, you’re fighting it all alone, is very painful. We can’t pretend any more that we are strong. We need one another now, more than ever before, yet our hands are tied.

But we can do something. One, let’s kneel before our Almighty God, the giver of life and pray for protection, for all those that are going through emotional, mental, physical and financial distress.

Pick up your phone, call that friend, that relative, that workmate, and find out how they are doing. Talk to them and give them hope and strength. It helps a lot.

Send a message to them and find out how they are anytime. It helps to know that whatever pain, trouble you’re going through, someone out there cares.

If they are experiencing some financial stress, share with them the little you have. Don’t wait to get a lot to be able to share. Even 5k ($1) or 2k (50 cents) can do something for someone in distress. It could be all that is needed to save a life. It can buy a strip of paracetamol, a liter of milk, a glass of juice or a few fingers of matooke (banana). Don’t feel shy sharing the little you have. It takes the burden off someone’s head.

But you can only manage to do that if you make an effort to keep in touch with people, of course through a phone call.

This disease is not only affecting people’s health. It attacks from all corners mentally, physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, financially, and all that. Let’s be compassionate, let’s offer the little we can, let’s be there for one another, give love and care, and above all let’s pray for one another, give love and care and above all let’s pray for one another. Covid-19 is real, but we can conquer the monster if we stand up for one another.

Psalm 142