Faith in Iganga Town
A highly populated town of 50% Muslims, where Friday sees the streets filled with white gowns of the faithful. This frontier town for the gospel has quite a number of churches and pastors struggling to become established.
Pastor Perez and his wife, Florence,
started a ministry in 1999 called Mission Harvest Ministries, through which he has planted nine churches across eastern Uganda, each under his oversight. He is the senior pastor of a church in Iganga town called Faith Power Assembly.
We have helped him to buy land and construct a temporary church. A permanent building is their ultimate goal.
They also have a ministry called Hands of Hope for Children, currently reaching out to 21 children with clothes, gifts, books, and sometimes offering medical care. It is for ministries like this that we are recruiting a Children's Ministy Specialist.
Nigel Harding first met pastor Perez at a leaders’ conference in Busia, where he was speaking back in 2002. He warmed to Perez immediately and felt there was a future together. Perez received a motorcycle courtesy of Christian Motorcyclist's Association in 2007 and it is still in excellent condition after two years of use. This is remarkable and says much about his careful character. If you can get him to talk about himself, he has a tremendous testimony of deliverance from a suicidal spirit as a young man that led to his salvation and later ministry.
Florence is a remarkable lady, who took courage and returned to the local secondary school in recent years as an adult, eventually completing A-levels, and has now completed an undergraduate degree in education, with a vision to establish her own school for vulnerable children.