Jenifer came upon 8 men sitting around drinking their local beer and she asked if she could have a few minutes of their time.  She begun sharing the gospel presentation with them and in the middle one man stood up and threw up his hands and cried with tears “I have killed so many people can God forgive me?” then he fell on his knees. At the end,  all eight men were saved! Afterwards the warriors took her inside their homestead where she shared with the women and children and several more surrendered their lives to Christ.

We immediately sent a team to Kotido another Karamajong town. From that trip they saw 486 salvations, 44 water Baptisms, 12 leaders emerged and were trained,  and 26 disciple-making groups were formed.

Today we have 841 adult Disciple Making groups with 23,748 members meeting in groups on a weekly basis. We also have 333 Children’s Disciple making groups with 24,360 children meeting. With a 74% illiteracy rate in the region, most of these children have never gone to school.

We have spread to 7 of the 9 Karamoja regions and have also reached out to the IK community who are an indigenous ethnic group living in the Morungole mountains in northeastern Uganda near the Kenyan border.  The Karamojong and the IK tribe, were enemies, raiding and killing each other.  Now the Karamojong Believers are taking the gospel to the IK! 

What was once a very violent, primitive and hostile environment has been transformed  through the spread of the gospel. One government official in the region commented “Whatever is happening in these small groups has brought about a lot of change among the warriors. What we have been trying to do for years, you have been able to achieve in a very short time”