Sarah, a former pipe smoking witchdoctor living in the slum Natete in Kampala, Uganda, has destroyed her pipe! Why? She has given her life to Jesus Christ.
Douglas Aliro, Manna Ministry leader, tells her story. It will bless your heart! Man, I love to get these emails.
Sarah Bewoze is one of the Manna beneficiaries from the slum Natete. Sarah has lived a very frustrated life! She lost her husband to AIDS/HIV and her in laws came in grabbed all the property she had with her late husband. They also took her children away from her! Sarah and her husband had business of selling metal scraps which gave them a middle class level of life, but she lost it all!
Sarah lives below poverty. She rents a house for 10,000 schillings a month (5 US) and she is always indebted to a tune of 6 months rent moneys! But because the house is in a location where the landlord cannot get any tenants, she is left to stay just to keep the house! The house is in the middle of the floodwaters. She has to wade into her house when it rains! That house and compound is always wet and muddy.
In a way to recover her former life and property, Sarah’s friends introduced her to witchcraft! Smoking on the pipe is what they use to summon the dead persons spirit and ask them for anything! But as for Sarah this has not worked either! Just as it has not work even for the other witch doctors! But threats made daily in her life by her friends and the witchdoctors, keep her doing it again and again without any gain!!
Sarah felt she was a real loser in life until Manna came in her life!! For over 12 years she believed that one day the dead spirits would work out miracles for her, but they didn’t. Jesus did! He sent for her Manna, a message from the Gospel and a mission team visit (real messengers from Jesus).
Sarah had never expected her neighbors to visit her house. No body around has done that. But when Manna came in she saw muzungus in her house that blessed her big time! To see muzungus in her house was sign enough to tell her that God cares and that Jesus loves her deeply!
In that day of the team visit to her house, Sarah gave her life to Jesus and was offered a Bible as a gift! She attends a house church that meets very near her home! She said that she will longer have to smoke, she got Jesus!!
With the courage she got from the word of God, she broke the pipe she used for over 12 years in witchcraft! She broke it into pieces and trashed it into the latrine! This I saw with my own eyes. She has continued on with Jesus!
I want to thank all the teams who take their time to minister in the homes of our Manna beneficiaries, your presence sends a love message better than “I love you” said from afar”
Thanks to our partners for providing the funds and all the support that makes it possible for us to look up people like Sarah and minister in their own homes! Your gifts and support gives access to persons like Sarah and many more others and also to locations like Natete where Sarah lives.
Today Sarah is another that you brought to Jesus!
It never ceases to amaze how receptive the poor are to the gospel of Jesus Christ and how powerfully God moves in their lives.
