Many students find the holidays a big challenge for many reasons. They go back to their communities and villages and the only thing they know how to do is to go to school. Many of them have never been shown how to spend spare time profitably. The tendency therefore is to try and find out what other young people are doing and imitate them. This often leads to behavior they themselves have not known.

Most times Communities and societies we live in try to make us conform and unless we stand up to them and only do only that which is good and right, we will end up looking like them. The illustration is when all the guys and the girls want you to do what they think is good in their own eyes. Often they try to get you believe that what they are offering is better than what you know. Or they show you that what you know is not good enough or completely ignore your opinion. What we need to know if we do not know it already is that those people are trying to devalue you and suggest that until one is like them one does not have a life to be excited about.
 

Shadrach, Meshak and Abednego Stood for the Truth
But the truth is often the reverse of what they are suggesting to you. An excellent example is a story from the Bible in the book of Prophet Daniel chapter 3. This is the story of three Hebrew boys who had been carried into exile when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon destroyed the country of Judah in 352 BC. Shadrach, Meshach and Abedinego were serving in the palace of the King when he had a dream and acted upon it. He built a golden statue and put it in the plains of Ono to worshipped by the whole of his Empire. (more…)

By Benoni Mugarura-Mutana

Joy and I have gone kookoo!

Earlier this year we decided to raise free range chicken at the Joy Center in Wakiso. We were prompted into this venture when a friend brought us a hen that hatched seven chicks.  You cannot imagine our excitement at the thought of starting our own chicken farm.

Joy hired a young man in our village to keep our small food garden and take care of the chicken.  However a few months later the young man fled with the hen and all, but one chick.

The lone chick quickly grew into a proud cock and needed a friend, so we decided to buy another hen. The new hen grew in popularity around the Joy Center.  A tryst with larger cock in the neighborhood led to seven new chicks! (more…)

I am writing this from Wakiso at the Joy Centre for Leadership Training. In case you do not know me, I am the Rev. Canon Benoni Mugarura – Mutana. When the Lord found me on the street in my home town of Kabale and saved my life, I was all alone and in gratitude, I offered my life to Him and to his service. (more…)

To all who may be leading the worship services in churches anywhere.

This note is my personal reaction and feelings as I continue to shop for the place to call home after I step down from the podium of leadership in the church services. I bound myself to as far from the City of Kampala where I have worked for the last 35 years to a Mpunga village in Wakiso District to start new life which my wife and I are enjoying very much. The challenge has been finding the church which we can call home. (more…)

“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in the land of deep darkness on them has the light shone”, (Isaiah 9:2)

We shall begin with the definitions so as to get the same meaning out of the main words used in this text of study. (more…)