Seven Baptisms in Kacwamba

On Sunday morning I did not go to church with the family. Cheryl took the kids to the town church and Ronald and I drove to Bundibugyo district.
We met under a tree as they do not have a church building of any kind. There were members of the little "church of Christ" group as well as some from the Eternal church of God.
They asked me to preach after one of the men got up and said, "We in the church of Christ do not believe that we are the only Christians. There are many people meeting in many different places this morning to worship the Lord. We are a part of God's kingdom. Those of you from other churches welcome! We all worship the same Lord! Let's worship him together!
I preached in English while Ronald translated in Rutooro and another man translated into Swahili. There were people who understood each language so that is how we did it.
After a thorough teaching session we sang. These guys can really get into their singing.
There was even a childrens singing group from the Eternal church of God. They were really good singers. They don't have a baptistry so we walked a few miles down to a stream. They had blocked the water with banana plants to make a deeper pool.

Here Ronald and I taught about Jesus, sin, baptisms and being buried in Christ.



There were seven people Baptised.


At this point in each baptism the women would let out a shrill and everyone would clap and sing.






Most of the ones baptised today are Congolese who have fled the war and found refuge in Uganda. I pray now that their true refuge is in the Lord.


This process took from morning until five in the evening. They wanted us to spend the night but we had planned to just attend the morning service.
The morning service turned into the noon/afternoon/evening service. That's life in the village.
We stopped after Ronald lost his voice. They would have liked for us to keep going all night long.

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