Welcome to Always Abounding. This podcast will encourage you as a believer to continue on and always abound in the work of the Lord. Now your host, Keith Stensis. And welcome once again to our podcast, Always Abounding. This is your host, brother Keith Stensis, here in Kalido. We are up in the, I should say the eastern part of Uganda, kind of halfway up, close to what is known as Lake Choga. And we are up here in the Caledo region. This is where many of you, as I've been talking on the podcast, and as well as I traveled to many of the churches while back on furlough, and being able to share with you the works and the ministries that we have going on up here in Caledo. Once a month we travel up here at the end of each month and do teaching and training and trying to help these men as they serve the Lord, help them in their churches, help them with Bible doctrine, as well as materials that they need to help them do the work of the ministry, whether it be Bibles or gospel tracts, whatever it is. And so we came up here, not necessarily for teaching this time. We came up in order to meet with the leadership. And so today we had a Good meeting going over what we are planning on in the this next few years as far as what we believe the Lord have us to accomplish through our team and Through the ministry that we are doing here in Calito The Bible says in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 and verse number 58 therefore my beloved brethren be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord and truly Our labor is not in vain in the Lord, and I'm so grateful that I have a team of men to be able to help me in the ministry. You know, sometimes when you think about the Apostle Paul, and by the way, I am not comparing myself to the Apostle Paul, but you know, you look at the Apostle Paul and he did a lot of great things, but it was because he had a great team behind him, and you think of Epaphroditus, you think of Timothy, you think of Titus, you think of all the different men that Paul mentioned over and over, Aquila and Priscilla, all these people that helped Paul in the ministry. And so Paul, yes, did a great and marvelous work, but he had a great team behind me. And I just want you to know that being a missionary here in Uganda, I am just one person. And there's only so much one person can do, but I am so grateful for the team that God has given to me. And so what we're going to do on this podcast is I'm going to introduce you to our, what we call the VMAM team and VMAM, V-M-A-M, stands for Village Mentorship and Assistance Ministry. And so our purpose is to mentor pastors, to mentor pastors' wives. My wife works with the ladies, and my sister as well works with the children's ministries. But we try to mentor our people in the word of God, mentor them in the ministry, as well as wherever possible, we try to assist them. Sometimes it might be to help them get a piece of property. Sometimes it might be to help them to build a church, get Bibles, get gospel tracts, whatever it might be. And so we try to assist them in that way. Now, before I introduce our team, though, today, I would like to send a couple of shout outs, and I really, really appreciate when those of you send messages in who have been listening to the podcast. I just got a message last night, even while I was getting ready to go to bed and I saw my phone come on, and I got this message from Brother Nate Simpson there at Capitol City Baptist Church. He says, hey brother, I just listened to your podcast from week before as I'm working out. Really brother, are you really working out? I'm sure you are. Enjoyed so much, Sally, joining you on the podcast, praying for you all. And so it was great to hear from Brother Nate Simpson, a good friend of ours. Brother Nate, thank you so much for that encouragement. And then brother Nate's brother, Adam Simpson, and Elena, Adam and Elena Simpson, their two children always are a joy to my heart. And they sent a message through my daughter the other day and just said, hey, tell brother Keith, thank you for the podcast. And so I want to send a quick shout out to Mr. Titus and to his sister. We sure appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for listening and thank you so much for being a part of our, just a part of our friend, being a friend to us and a great acquaintance to us. Thank you so much, Adam and Elena. And we sure appreciate your kids and the way you're raising them for the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you so much for that. Well, let's go ahead and get into the podcast today. And we're going to be, like I said, I want to introduce you to the team. Now, if you hear an occasional snapping in the background, it is because Khalido is infested. with mosquitoes and they are everywhere. So we have these little zappers all around the house killing these mosquitoes on a daily basis. Millions have died in our house through these zappers and so if you hear that in the background that is what is happening. Another mosquito Bites the dust and so so don't be disturbed about that and once again when we do travel obviously the sound is not What it would normally be like in an enclosed Controlled environment, and so I hope you'll forgive me for that and because as soon as I turn on these microphones We're gonna start hearing a lot of what's going on Around the room. And so once again, I want to thank the Lord for our team and I'm gonna introduce us first of all to the oldest member of our team and That is brother one ballet Robert brother one ballet. It's good to have you on the podcast today, sir I'm privileged to be on the podcast today. How long have you been in our VMAN ministry? I know I'm taking you by surprise here. Yeah, about six years. About six years you've been with us. And you help me out so much with cultural issues, property issues. You're a teacher by profession. But you've had a lot of experience in these type of things, and so you've been a tremendous help in the organization of V-MAM. And I just want to thank you publicly for the work that you do for the Lord with us here. Praise the Lord. Thank you for leading us well. Amen, amen. I have had a good time in the ministry, and I've learned a lot. Now, one of the things that I appreciate about you is, and we're not gonna go through the whole story here, but several years ago, right after you got saved, your wife left you, and you have three wonderful children. And those children, you have raised them in church, you've raised them under the preaching of the word of God. And I'm telling you, those are some of the best children I've seen in Uganda. And I just want to thank you for the effort and the work that you put in as a dad, a single dad, raising those kids for the honor and glory of the Lord. Yeah, by the grace of God, the children are growing up well. I'm sure parents have weaknesses as parents, but when the church comes in, things can go on better. Amen. Now, your daughter is trying to get into nursing school, is that right? Yeah, she's trying to get into nursing, or we may also choose teaching. We are still looking on. OK. So she has finished here in Uganda what they call the O level, right? Yeah. And so after the O level, which is ordinary level of high school. She can now go either to high school for two more years or to a nursing school for two and a half years. Amen. Amen. Now, I know that many, many years ago I brought you on this podcast and you gave your testimony, but there's many new listeners that we have. And so, just briefly, if you don't mind, Brother Robert, tell us how you got saved, how you came to know Christ as your Savior, and how you came to be involved with Massaka Independent Baptist Church. All right, I thank God for this opportunity again. Not until 2016 did I realize that getting saved was not a religious activity. And all my life, for 37 years of my life, I thought that going to heaven needed certain religious rituals, religious progressions. I thought that continuously we had to go to church, we had to marry in the church, we had to be confirmed by our bishops. And also we had to do good things all the time to go to heaven. So not until 2016, April, did I realize that salvation was free. And I always talk about this, and I know very many people know it, about the man who got saved on the cross. Yes. Uh, in the book of Luke, I, I always have that on my mind. Uh, that verse taught me a lot about salvation. Amen. And so I, uh, I, I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior, him and him alone being responsible for my entry in heaven. Amen. And when, what, what year was that? When did you get saved? And that was April 2016. Amen. Yeah. Amen. Now, so after you got saved, you got involved with the church and you joined Bible College. Yes, Bible College. I joined Bible College 2018. Okay. Of course, 2017 and part of 2016 was discipleship. I went through the first discipleship. and even through the Second Discipleship and the first 33 lessons of the Baptist International Mission and Doctrine, all of them. By the time I went to Bible College, I had gone through them. Wow. Now, you graduated from Bible College, correct? Yes, that is two years ago. Amen. And now you're helping me teach in the Bible College. Yeah, I've just completed my year in Bible College as a teacher. When I was in the U.S., Brother Robert helped me teach in the Bible College. That was a great... It was a privilege. I always appreciate the videos that you would send me of the students singing. And I never heard you teaching, though, so I'm wondering if you guys just sang songs. Because I was the only cameraman in the room, so I could not camera myself teaching. Amen. Yes. Now, what we have done, we have two different ministries in Uganda with VMAM. We have what we call the Masaka region, we have the Kalido region, and in the Masaka region we have 11 churches that are down there. And so what we have done and what we discussed today in our meeting is that instead of you coming up always to Caledo, you're going to remain down in the Massaca region and help me to oversee those churches in that area. Yes. And what do you see? I realize every church has a physical physical needs. But what do you see as you look at our churches, independent Baptist churches, a lot of our churches are new churches, they're just getting on their feet, and some are doing well, some are struggling. What do you see as the greatest need that we have in helping our independent Baptist churches to thrive? The heart, according to my observations, the six years I've spent in ministry, I realize that the heart of of church planting, of evangelism, mainly church planting is missions giving. uh... if uh... if we cannot if judges cannot thrive if grown-up judges cannot thrive in missions giving then we cannot do much in the field of of of evangelism and church planting uh... it does not matter how big the missions giving is uh... i know here in uganda at the level of just one thousand shillings which is like a third of a dollar can do tremendous work if you put it in missions. So missions is the heart of church planting, missions is the heart of starting churches, especially in a world where religion has deep-rooted itself all over. We need to support men in the field for the work of the Lord. That is it. Now, you mentioned something to me today that I thought was very interesting, and that is, you know, within Uganda, Uganda is a country of about 45 million people. We've got about 52 different languages. Tribes are, you know, everywhere. And what you explained to me is that many times We don't think that in Uganda, Uganda is a country with many countries. Yes. And within those many countries are many different languages and many different customs and things like that. And sometimes as Americans, we think, oh, I'm just going to go to Uganda, and I'm just going to. But In Uganda, you have to learn culture, language, the way things are done, almost within an hour drive of anywhere you go. Explain that to me. Yeah. Um, uh, when people out there, you hear of countries, most countries in Africa are multinational per se, that there are different languages in the same so-called nation. You're all Ugandans. You're all Ugandans, but you're not. Yeah. Right. Every, there is a nation within a nation. So even us now, as we preach now, we are, we are like, we are in another nation because we are from Uganda. Now we are in Busoga. So when we come to Vusoka, we are like we are in a foreign place. The way people do things is different. The favorite food is different. The way of life, the way of looking at things is different. So sometimes we have to adapt to new things. We have to learn some words in new language. Sometimes we need to struggle to assimilate a few things so that people can get closer to us. So we are always conscious of that. And you have to be very careful coming into somebody else's culture that you don't try to bring, even though you're Ugandan, it's, you're bringing in your own culture because you, what is, what is ironic is, all right, we're in Busoga and we're from Baganda area, but you're, you're a Bakonzo. Yes. And so you had to come to Baganda and learn Baganda culture and language and, assimilate into there. So I have to learn the Lusoga now. Yeah, yeah. So are you ready for that? Yes. Yes. I'm learning slowly. Though it's not easy, but I am. Amen. Amen. Well, Brother Robert, I cannot thank you enough for the years that you've been with me and traveled with me. Your advice and counsel has been tremendous and it is saved me a lot of a lot of heartaches and I really appreciate your openness with me and and I Again, I could not do the ministry that we do here without you and I really want to thank you so much for that Praise the Lord. Amen. Thank you so much brother Robert the next guy we have coming up here on our team and I'm just going in order of how long they've been in our ministry and Whoa, that just really changed the sound and so I'm gonna try to brother Charles Yes, sir. Are you there with me? I am. I'm going to turn you down just a little bit because the sound was just way up there. There we go. It's not that I don't want to hear your voice. Charles, I've known you for a long time. I've known you since you were a teenager. Nineteen. Since you're 19 years old. Yes. And through the years we've enjoyed a great relationship, a great friendship. And when was it that you joined our V-MAM team? When was that? I did join V-MAM team. now coming to two years. Two years ago? Yeah. Okay. That's when I did join. All right. Now we have, there's a call of God in your heart to preach the gospel and I have known very few and I'm not saying this to build you up and give you a big head because that's very easy to do, but I'm serious when I say this, you have been a student of the Word of God and you love the Word of God and I've known very few Ugandans that have a command of the scripture when you preach. And so you have been able to become a tremendous asset to the ministry as well. While I was gone in the States, you helped me teach in the Bible College. You graduated from our Bible College. Just real quickly, tell our listeners how you came to know Christ as your Savior. How did you come to get saved from that time we met you when we lived in the same village together in Mutuba Gardens was the name of the village, and that's where we met you and your sisters. Yes. And tell us how you got saved. Well, in 2007 is when my dad died. And so when my dad died, I had to move to Masaka to live with my mom. And so in 2009, That's when I met a preacher that you were living with. It was called Brother Ojera. Yes. Who invited me to come to church. And at first I wasn't interested because my background unlike his, my background is not a religious background because my dad was a a witch practitioner. So he was a witch doctor. Wow. And so I was not raised in the church in any way. And so when I came to Masaka to live with my mom, that's when I was introduced to church. And when I came, actually during that time we were preaching verse by verse in the book of Ecclesiastes. Wow. Yeah, every evening. When I was actually exposed to the truth and seeing how our church was expounding scriptures truthfully, there was a very big difference from all the preachers that I have heard because it wasn't my first time to hear about Bonnie Gaines and so on. All the born-again's were like miracle promotions and so on. And so I wasn't interested. But when I came to Massaka in the Pentecostal, I found that really they open a Bible. And by that time they give you a visitor's Bible. And someone sits with you to open a Bible with you. And so when I really saw that, and you can see it from the scripture and the preachers preaching what is in there, it really caught my mind. And on that Sunday, I really said, this is after preaching and hearing the gospel. And I was taken out by a brother. outside and I came to confess Christ to be my firstborn. Amen. Now you also had a chance of finding your wife in our church. Yes, yes. Wow. Actually she found me in the church. Because I was in the church before she moved. But yeah, so she found me and in 2012, 2013, that's when she started to attend our church and then she got saved and being discipled by the ladies in our church and so that's when we got interested and so by that time I was in Bible college almost coming to my end to finish up and so we got engaged and she joined Bible College as well. And so when she graduated, we got married. Amen. And I have never sat under your wife's teaching, obviously, but my wife has. And she says the same thing. There's a There's a depth to her teaching where you can tell that she studies and she gets in the Word of God. And so I know that my wife has just been tremendously blessed by her. Now you have two children. Yes, expecting the third. Expecting the third, who is due in two weeks, around two, three weeks, something like that. And so you're keeping your phone on and everything. Very good. So when I was on furlough, I asked Brother Charles and his family to pray about something. And it's like Brother Wambale was talking a minute ago, within Uganda, there are so many different types of cultures. And so when you move from one place to another, it's not like you're in America where you can move from one state to another state and it's still all the same culture. When you go from a district to district here, many times it's a totally different language, a different culture, different type of people, different way of thinking, different foods, different weather and things. And so I asked them to pray about moving up here to Caledo because we needed somebody up here that would be up here on a consistent basis, working with the churches on a day in and day out basis. Pastor Kasadja has been up here. His health is not what it ought to be. And so he's gonna be, Brother Charles is gonna be coming up here and helping our churches on ground level. And instead of just coming up once a month like we have been and working with the men in a classroom type setting, Brother Charles will be able to come up here and be able to work with the men on the ground level in their churches, with their people. Uh, his wife is going to be able to interact and be able to try to influence the ladies in the churches. And, uh, so, uh, first of all, brother Charles, thank you for praying about that. And, uh, and then secondly, thank you for being willing to come. It's, that's not an easy thing to move. up here, and praise the Lord, he found a good house that he's gonna be staying in, and living in, and it's gonna be very conducive to his family. We were able to raise the money, as many of you know, for a truck that we're going to be bringing up here, so Brother Charles will be able to use that to get supplies and food and things like that brought in for our teaching sessions. And so, again, God has just been so wonderful in providing all of this for us, and so we're excited about the future. And so, again, Brother Charles, I would like to thank you for, ever since I've known you, being a good friend. And you've been a friend to all my boys. I know my boys think a lot of you. And so even you give my daughters a hard time. But anyway, it's just been a blessing having you as a friend through the years, and I appreciate your faithfulness, and looking forward to seeing how God's gonna use us together as we continue working here in the Caledo region. So thank you so much. And if you do think about it, and I'm gonna ask you at the end of the podcast to pray on a regular basis for our team as they help me to be able to do the work of the ministry here, but be in specific prayer over these next two or three weeks Brother Charles's wife Beatrice and just pray that there'll be safe deliveries there a safe delivery. I don't know why I said deliveries One delivery, right? You don't want twins But anyway safe delivery there for both mom and baby And so if you'd pray about that, I would sure appreciate that. Then our newest member of our team is also the newest married man. Brother Nsembi Richard. Brother Nsembi, how long have you been married? Two weeks now. Two weeks? Oh, come on. One and a half weeks. One and a half. I was going to say, does it seem like two weeks? No. In the last podcast that I did, I explained to our listeners some of the things about the culture of the introduction and the wedding and different things like this and how so much of it is different from what we're used to. But really, for the most part, everything went, in any time that there is a wedding in Uganda, there's always going to be something that happens. But I would say for the most part it went very well and you have a very beautiful wife and so praise the Lord for that Miss Sharifa and so glad that you guys were able to do that. Did you ever think it would happen? I used to think it would happen, but not now. Not the time it happened. Now your father is, I think our listeners actually met you one time because we interviewed your father when he was having a need for the land. out there on the islands. And we had a church in the U.S. that raised the money to purchase that land. Brother Bombali went over there with you and helped your dad to get all of that taken care of. And so you're not new to this. You've been on this program before. But one of the things that Brother Nsingbi helps me with is translation. And for, I don't know, Was it just you had a good teacher in school? How did your English become so good? I had a good teacher at school. You had a good teacher? That's what I can say. Okay. I had good teachers of English. Wow. Because, I mean, your grammar and, you know, I have you translate our Bible College material tests and, you know, then whenever I do teaching and things, you also translate for me in the teaching. And it's... First of all, translating for somebody preaching is difficult in itself. But then when you're listening to an American accent, when Ugandans are more used to a British type accent, it makes it even harder to do. But you keep up very well. And I just want to thank you so much for the part that you play. Very important part. I know a couple days of the week you're in the office and translating material. You travel up with us and translate for me when I preach and teach, and so thank you so much for that. I really, really appreciate that. Real quick, tell us, I know you were raised on the island. Your dad's a fisherman, and so that was the life that you grew up with, being a fisherman. And so how did a fisherman out on the islands in Lake Victoria, how did you come to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ? As you said, I grew up on the islands, but I didn't study from there. I had my education in Entebbe, near the airport. So my parents got saved in 2003 when I was a little boy. But they had a Pentecostal background because the preachers who came by our house to preach, they were Pentecostal preachers. So they got saved. My father was a Catholic and my mother was a Muslim. I did not know that. Your mom was a Muslim? Yes, she was. Did you know that, Charles? No. I didn't either. She was called Jawaria. She was a Muslim. I did not know that. I'm sorry. I learned something new today. Go ahead. Yeah, sure. So surprising, my mother was the first one to get saved. My father was a little bit hard. But after my mother got saved, she convinced my father also. And in a short run, my father also got saved. So we began going to church, because by then we used to go to the Catholic churches. We used to go to the Catholic churches. So after our parents got saved, we began to go to the churches. But they were Pentecostal churches. So we began with a Pentecostal background. So, but for us as kids, we just, you know, we just went. Because whatever our parents would go, we'd just go with them. Just follow up. So, during the first years of our education, we are on the islands, because there's a government school there. But when our dad got some little money, he got us to a boarding school in Entebbe. But that school in Entebbe had a Presbyterian background. So the church at the school was Presbyterian. Then the church at home where we used to go was Pentecostal. So we had two... Dad Catholic, Mom Muslim. That Catholic, more Muslim, then you have Pentecostals here, then you have Presbyterian here. So we were confused, which is which. And I spent the last part of my education in Entebbe. So meaning I spent part, the most part of my early life in a Presbyterian setting. So when I was in senior three, I think it was 2015, My dad listened to the radio. Yes, Word of Life Radio. Word of Life Radio, by then, in Chittabazi. So the preaching on the radio was different, as Charles said. And so my dad inquired, as in he was curious, wanted to know where is this radio, where are these people who preach this strange message in a good way. So he he took on an initiative of finding the radio and the people and the place. So he came in Chittabazi and I don't know who he met there but he phoned people there, they discussed and he was introduced to the church of Chittabazi. So, the men from this church of Chitawazi, Masaka, MIBC began to come to our place. We didn't know them as kids, just saw people coming at home and we used to see them in different colors. But before our dad got in contact with you, people from Chitawazi, there is a certain missionary. I'd say he was of a Southern Baptist setting. Man, you had all the religions. We had multiple religions. We had many people. This guy came and he built a house there on the islands. He began a church there. So he got in contact with my dad, and they began working together. So this missionary, Ricky Smith, had to go back to the US, and he left all the property with my dad. So my dad stepped in as the lead of the church. But it was a southern Baptist city. When my dad got to contact with you, people from Kitavazi, you began to come. You began to come to teach, to disciple people, to baptize. So you introduced new doctrines to the people on the islands. So they were interested in something that was new and which was biblical. So in 2015, because I think we began coming on the islands in 2011, so in 2015 there is a brother, you had come to preach and there were some people to be baptized. So that's when I, because for me, I thought I was a Christian. Being raised in a Christian home, I thought I was a Christian. And I thought even when I died, it's clear to heaven. Because my dad and my mom were Christians. There's a brother with whom you came that time was called Brother Kagey James. I just found him there because for us in our culture, the Baganda culture, when visitors come, you have to find your way out as kids. You leave the house for the guests. So for us, when you guys used to come at our place, we used to move and find other things to do. So, I was coming from the town and I met a brother who was called, was sitting on a bench, a brother, so he called me. He said, young man, come, what's your name? My name is Richard. So we began to converse, we began to exchange. He asked me, are you a Christian? I said, yes. Then he asked me, how did you become a Christian? I said, my parents are Christians. That makes me a Christian. He said, no. So he began to go verse by verse explaining to me how you don't become a Christian simply because your parents are Christians. You have to make a personal confession, you have to repent. From that time, on that very bench where I was sitting, I confessed to Christ as mother and savior. And on that same day, I was baptized. And I think that it was April 2015 when I got saved. Amen. Was that the same time that Brother Charles went swimming? in the lake and he splashed so much the lake level went down. I think it was brother Mike who threw me there. Threw you in? Yeah. We have a lot of good memories on the islands. I remember those early days going over there when your dad used to have those old fishing boats. Man, I thought we would never get across. I mean, we were bailing water out as we're going down across the country. But now, I have not had an opportunity since being back to go visit your dad. I do plan on doing that. I know that we've got the new property over there purchased and things like that. Just give us an update on how things are going with the ministry there. I know that We're going to be moving the existing church building that's kind of in the village area up to the new property and things. Has that started at all? When you talk to your dad, what's the plans right now? First of all, I thank God for the opportunity and for the grace. God provided the funds to buy the new property for the church because the other one had some wrangles in and out. So when I talked to my dad last time, he told me they are planning on to begin making the bricks. of the new building, and so they have not yet shifted the new area, but they are making bricks, getting things ready to shift the new property. Amen, amen. Well, I am looking forward to getting out there and seeing him, and your mom is always such a blessing. She's such a blessing, sure appreciate them. Very, very gracious host whenever we go and Go and visit and so I appreciate that very very much Well, I do want to make one small little adjustment at the beginning of the podcast. I was sending a shout out to Titus and his sister because I had a brain freeze where I forgot his sister's name, but I just remembered it's Titus and Addie and And so Addie, there you are. I got your name in there. I'm sorry I forgot you at the beginning of the podcast. But anyway, Titus and Addie, thank you so much for your friendship and I hope you're being very obedient to your mom and dad and not giving them too much of a hard time. Anyway, I do want to thank these men and again, I don't have the whole team here. We have Monika that helps my wife there in the Massaca region. We also have brother Charles's wife, Miss Beatrice. who's going to be helping up here in the Calita region. So we've also got ladies, my sister and Ms. Sharon that help out with the children's ministries. And so we've got a great team and it's just a blessing to be able to work. Obviously, through the years, we've had ups and downs. We've had difficulties here and there, but God has just been so good to us and allowing this team to be a blessing and a help to so many churches and individuals. And so just continue to pray for wisdom. We need wisdom. We need God's grace. We need his provision to be able to transport and get to the different places. And so I am so excited about what the Lord is doing and what God is going to do through these men's lives. And so, Brother Robert, thank you. Thank you so much for your work. And thank you so much for all that you do for the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Brother Charles Dungu. Dungu. Do you want to tell our listeners what dungu means? Are you going to be honest about it? Yeah, actually dungu is a a traditional name for the small gods that are being worshipped in the world. But what is the word dungu? The word dungu assumes it to be the desert. It's the desert. The wilderness. And then, brother, Nsimbi Richard, his name, Nsimbi, is money. Yeah. And so we call him Mr. Cash. And remind me, Bwambale, You told me, the second born. So all second born boys in your culture are named Wambale, Wambale Robert. And Robert is a name that is very common here. So I found out, I think you told me just recently that Pastor Biaquaso, his name means excuse. Yeah, yeah, Biaquaso is, yeah. I didn't know that until just the other day, so. Yeah, Stensis just means Stensis. Although my first name means man of the forest. Yes, just think of me as the man of the forest. Amen. You guys don't look very impressed. I am. Amen. Well, once again, I'm so grateful that you had an opportunity to meet the team. And again, I love these guys so much. I enjoy spending time with them, fellowshipping with them. They're not only fellow workmates, but they are friends in the ministry, brothers in Christ. It is a joy to be able to serve the Lord alongside of them and I'm so grateful that God brought me in contact with them and I look forward to many more years ahead serving the Lord with them as we try to help our churches here in Uganda. Don't forget the bible says in first corinthians chapter 15 and verse number 58 therefore my beloved brethren be steadfast unmovable Always abounding in the work of the lord for as much as you know That your labor is not in vain in the lord. Please don't forget that what you do for the lord. Jesus christ your labor is not in vain. It is not in vain. Keep on serving the Lord. Look for ways to always abound in His work, and I guarantee you this, God will bless you for it, and you will have an opportunity. You'll have opportunity after opportunity to have an influence on people's lives for the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't forget if you haven't done so already, let me encourage you to subscribe to this podcast. 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