Ministry
VILLAGE INITIATIVE for CHRIST:
WHO WE ARE;
African Village Initiative for Christ is a Born- Again Christian non-profit dedicated to empowering churches in the villages of Uganda.
Our Vision:
Bringing down God’s dominion in the villages of Uganda (Mathew 6:10)
Our Mission:
Empowering churches in villages to possess their territory for our Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 1:8).
Objectives;
- To bring down and maintain God’s presence through unceasing prayer on the village altar.
- To establish a foundation for Christian doctrine through discipleship
- To fulfill the Biblical mandate of carrying each other’s burdens in the body of Christ through our resource center
Activities
- Holding unceasing prayer on the village altar
- Equipping church leaders with knowledge of the word of God through discipleship
- Facilitating churches with material supplies through our resource center
Why churches in villages?
More than 75% of Uganda’s population live in villages yet they are the most underserved regions of the country with poor infrastructure like roads, health centers, places of prayer, schools, among others that make it difficult for Ugandans to access social services on time.
This makes inaccessibility one of the biggest challenges that Born again churches face in villages in Uganda. For example, just three hours away from the capital Kampala is enough for a church to be remote and conveniently unreachable. On insistence, one may incur extra costs like accommodation due to the poor state of roads and network connectivity that make the process of traveling time consuming, expensive and tiresome. Due to this burden, there is little networking between churches making the churches in villages isolated.
In villages, there is an extremely poor electricity supply, hardly any clean water sources and a devastating domestic system where toxic patriarchy takes the lead. The church has a lot of responsibility on educating the people, praying for them, counselling and mentoring them into Christ-like individuals yet they have no support at all.
Infestation of evil altars;
In villages, almost every household has an evil altar in form of small shrines, baskets under the beds or in pots situated at specified corners or positions in the house, smoking of the pipe, bars, carrying out animal sacrifice and child sacrifice. Additionally, there are many witch doctors claiming territory. This makes it difficult for Churches to be fully established unless they have a stronger spirit of God than the evil spirits from their altars.
Ignorance;
People may be aware of their calling in Jesus Christ but without knowledge and understanding of how to fulfill it effectively. So they are likely to start a church without any training or commissioning.
The Bible clearly states that we must study to be approved. However, today church leaders are most likely to casually open up a church without sufficient knowledge of the word of God which leads to personal doctrine teachings instead of Bible based knowledge and guidance.
Our Programs:
Village Altar
We carefully constructed the village altar with eight corners as instructed by the Holy Spirit. People from the village join for prayers, fasting, Bible study to seek the Lord. This also unites them to have corporate prayer to invite the presence of God for not only themselves as individuals but as a collective.
Discipleship School
We started our Discipleship program with the young generation to enable us to start with a stronger foundation. At the moment, we disciple children through our Nursery and will open for those in Primary school after the construction of that section. We offer a foundational education program where children learn everything from scratch including writing, reading, counting and Bible Studying. This gives us a strategic opportunity to instill Christlikeness in the new generation with a hope that they will become Ambassadors of Christ in the near future.
Once we get the required financial support, we shall immediately start our Discipleship school for the youth and church leaders as well.
Resource center
Currently, we are open for basic material support for the churches that need an extra help especially with Christian content like Bibles, Books, literature, children Bible stories, sermons both written and audio in our Library.
