Baptisms in Fort Portal

I taugh, discipled and mentored David Kabiito....David taught and is discipling Switiza...Switiza has been teaching these young men and now they have come to put on Christ in Baptism.
Some plant. Some water but the Lord gives the increase. Praise the Lord for His goodness, mercy and love.


How many of you have come prepared to be baptised in the river today?
We talked about God's love in sending Jesus.
I told them the story of the first African who was baptized by Philip.
We talked about the baptism of Jesus. We talked of the baptism of Saul/Paul.
We talked about puting on Christ and what that means for them.
Ephesians 6 was discussed. The idea of the burial...Being United with Christ.
Each person who came today for baptism said that they have repented of their sin.
They are sorry and they want Christ to turn their lives around and lead them on His path.

While we were still sinners Christ died for us. This kind of baptism/immersion is a wonderful picture of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.


After each baptism we prayed for our new brother in Christ.


"I believe that Jesus is the Son of God!" Each young man shared with everyone about his belief in Jesus.


Because you believe that Jesus is the son of God, I am going to baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and Holy spirit for the forgiveness of sins. You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Are you ready?


"I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and He is my savior. He is going to wash away my sins!"
Did everyone, even the guys on the bridge hear that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Jesus is the way the truth and the life no come to the Father except by Him.






He is raised to walk a new life in Jesus.


He faced the crowd of people from different religions and said in Rutooro.
"I believe Jesus is the Son of God!"





"But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved." Eph. 2:4-5 NIV









One of my friends saw this picture and said, "look at that garbage!"
I honestly didn't see the garbage I had only seen the beautiful ones I love.
I think that is the way Christ sees us. He focusses on what he loves not the garbage.





































After the baptisms I shared the story of the prodical son with everyone who was listening. One Muslim man listeded closely as I acted out wanting to eat the pig slop. "this young man had taken his inheritance before his father had died and sold it for money which he wasted on women, drinking and wild living. Once the money ran out so did his friends. He got so desperate that he hired himself out to a pig farmer. (Which was against his culture, customs and religion.) They loved how the father treated the son when he went home. The father in the story is God and we are the ones who ran away.






We have several friends who are Muslim. This man in the back appears to be a devout follower of Islam from the Tabliq group.




This morning I had loaded up the trailer and the baptistry but the power was off so there was no city water to fill it. We changed our plans and went down to the river. This kind of public river baptism is really great as many people stop to watch what we were doing. What a great day! We were able to share the Good news of Jesus with some who would never step inside a church building. And all of these young men have put on Christ.
Praise the Lord for what He continues to do in the lives of people.

Today is a day to Praise the Lord!