Ssekiwunga gets new breath of life as they break ground for new Church

The place Ssekiwunga in Busiro sounds as if it is located deeply in the villages yet it is just 12 miles from Kampala Capital City off Entebbe Road at the outskirts of Akright City and just a kilometer away from the Entebbe Express High way.

For sure this place used to be one of the remotest villages along Entebbe Road, thank God, with the coming into place of the Akright City Kakungulu, this place has got a new breath of life. A small but neat Anglican Church named St. Marks Church Ssekiwunga used to be located here in a very isolated place. It was actually in the midst of the bush with no nearby houses apart from a small brick house adjacent to the Church where the Lay Reader used to reside.

It used to be every Lay Reader’s nightmare to be posted to this place. One would think twice before accepting to be posted to such a place. First and foremost, there were a handful of Christians in this area. Secondly, a typical Sunday service would attract not more than five people. This meant that at the end of the month, the Lay Reader would never think of every getting his/her monthly payment in full.

All that is now history, ever since Herbert Muhumuza, mobilized his fellow Akright residents to start worshipping at this place, the place has changed for better. For now the place has changed, they have a state of the art master plan for the whole place and they have given themselves one year to complete a 700 seater church complex with a modern primary school and other developments on the 10 acres of land in this part of the Akright City.

On Friday 17th August 2018, the Bishop of Namirembe Diocese the Rt. Rev. Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira was hosted to this area to break the ground for the construction of the new Church.
In his sermon, Bishop Luwalira said that if the work survives on the foundation, each one will be rewarded. He said that he had seen the people of Ssekiwunga with all the guts of completing the construction in one year. He said that he had the faith that God the Master planner was going to put in place the plan and was going to accomplish it. He thanked the people of this area for knowing the signs of the season and also getting to know what they are supposed to do.

The Bishop said that God had called all of them to build a new Church building and he was sure the congregation would do like God had called them to do so. “None of us is called to be a spectator. We are all called to serve” he said amidst clapping and ululations.
He went on to say that God had called us to be faithful since faithfulness is one of the greatest attributes of our God. He further said that when God begins a good work, He will definitely accomplish it.
“God is the master planner, the master builder and has good plans for us” he said. He then asked the people of Ssekiwunga to consult God for the best plan, consult God for the resources and that God had called them to do monitoring, evaluation and supervision.
The Bishop also said that when people get to know Jesus, He also opens their wallets and they start contributing generously. He warned them that in Uganda today, people have become so much obsessed with love for “enjawulo”  “omuntu omuwa omulimu natandikirawo okukubaza” meaning that nowdays you give someone a job and he starts forging the way he can cheat you.
He later on broke the ground at the place where the construction of the Church is going to take place.
On his part, the Assistant Archdeacon of Entebbe Archdeaconry, Rev. Emmanuel Kenneth Ssewanyana thanked the people of Ssekiwunga for the speed at which they were carrying out construction in the area. He said that he had hope that the Church won’t take long to be accomplished.

On her part, the Government Chief Whip Hon. Ruth Nankabirwa thanked the bishop for sparing time to come and break the ground. She said that as Christians of Ssekiwunga, they were requesting for a very good Anglican primary school in the area which one of them would run on behalf of the Church to ensure that the church is sustainable. She contributed 100 bags of cement which will be delivered the following day.

The Head of Laity Mrs. Margaret Kawumi elaborated how this work would be accomplished in phases of 52 days each from the foundation, construction of walls, Roofing and furnishing the Church.
The MC of the day Alex Kamukama who is also the head of planning and development, spiced the function with the way he narrated how all this had been done.
The outgoing Head of Laity and also Chairman of LC, Tom Tenyigwa gave a history of how that Church was started in 1966 up to the present day.