| Prisons Ministry |
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Victory Christian Centre Church- Ndeeba works to make as many People in Custody as possible to become followers of Jesus Christ, and to enjoy a good earthly life, that the Kingdom of God offers.
OUR VISION Victory Christian Centre - Ndeeba works to make People in custody godly, and good, prosperous citizens in their after-custody life.
OUR MISSION To take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to incarcerated persons, world-wide, and to help improve welfare during custody, and livelihood, after incarceration.
TARGET GROUPS
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Humanity has physical and spiritual needs. Both necessities should essentially be addressed to achieve healthy living for all mankind. According to the Holy Bible, one of the major prophets, Jeremiah said, “The heart (that is the spiritual part of man) is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9. Unfortunately, the spiritual aspect has often been ignored or given very little attention. This has resulted in gross immorality that has caused untold misery to many individuals and communities, worldwide. Incarceration and its effects are just a mention of such agony, and it is children and women that are most affected. Most prisoners’ families live in low-class settlements. Their children are often timid, fearful, and fond of loitering around. Some become ‘street children’, join petty thieving, crime, sex trade, and, sometimes get adolescent pregnancies. Similarly, many households headed by women who are widows, single mothers, or married women with absent or polygamous husbands, often follow the same stance.
ACTIVITIES:
ACHIEVEMENTS
Between the period 2007 to June 2010. (Please refer to Table ‘A’ , and Uganda Map ‘B’ below)
Year 2007 ….. 160 “ 2008 ….. 248 ” 2009 ….. 782 June 2010 ….. 445
3. Donations: Donations, especially, in form of soap, blankets, razor blades, sugar, have been made to various prisons over the years to help improve their well-being.
Rachel Nantongo leads the Prison Ministry ( she is also Founder/Chair Person of Build Prison Ministries(formerly known as Build Up Again Ex-prisoners Association (BAP), received Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord in 1983, at Makerere Redeemed Church, in Kampala, Uganda. This is a church where Pastor Joseph Serwadda, now Chief Pastor of Victory Christian Centre-Ndeeba, was serving as a young pastor then.
The idea of Prison Ministry came to Rachel in February 1992, when she was prayerfully seeking God’s direction concerning a women’s church group that she was leading then. Though Rachel had never been to any prison, or been related to any prisoner, she immediately responded to the call.
After some inquiries about how to get to prisons, Rachel and the other women in her group made their first prison visit to Luzira Maximum Security Prison (for condemned prisoners) in Uganda, East Africa. It was in this prison that the zeal and passion to reform prisoners was born in the hearts of these women.
During the 17 (seventeen) years of ministry, Rachel has preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ in 44 (fourty-four) different Prisons of Uganda. She has also been very instrumental in helping ex-prisoners in their resettlement, as well as improving the well-being of prisoners’ families, and of similar poor women-headed households.
Rachel Nantongo was born on 23/05/1953 in the central region of Uganda in a strong Anglican family. She has four grown-up children, two sons and two daughters. Rachel is also mercifully blessed with four grand children – two boys and two girls.
Contact: Ms Rachel Nantongo Tel: + 256 70 656769 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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