WORLD SHINE MINISTRIES (WSM)

P.O. Box 10262, Kampala, Uganda Plot 17 Kakungulu Road, Ntinda, Kampala, Uganda

WSM HOLDS ITS FIRST AGM FOR EASTERN & NORTHERN UGANDA EVANGELISM & EDUCATION ARE AT THE CENTRE OF ACTION

Some of the participants to the annual general meeting (AGM) outside, All Saints Church, Kachumbala, the venue of the day-long conference:

INTRODUCTION
Dear Brethren,

Minute 1
Opening Prayer by the Management Committee Chairperson, Rev. Francis Ebur

Minute 2
The Local Council 1, Chairperson, Stanslus Aryong thanked God for enabling WSM to operate in his jurisdiction. He said he has received many reports about the excellent deeds by WSM among his people.

Minute 3
All the participants introduced themselves with speeches characterised by Ituritete Yesu, Ituritete Edeke & Ituritete Ejakait, (Ateso for Praise Jesus and Praise God & Praise Him)

Minute 4
The Management Committee Chairperson, Rev. Ebur commended WSM for promoting unity. He highlighted the theme scripture of the AGM from John 17:21 in which Jesus prays for the Unity of all believers. He called for humility, patience, love, trust. He urged the participants to become active members of WSM by paying

membership fees of U20,000/= per individual and U50,000/= per Church or Organisation per year.

Minute 5
The WSM Coordinator for Eastern & Northern Uganda, Rev. Robert Erone addreses the AGM. Behind him is the Management Committee Chairperson, Rev. Francis Ebur. He welcomed all. He explained that WSM is an inter-denominational, nonprot, non-political, interracial, international Christian non-governmental organisation founded in 2000 with the aim of reaching, raising and releasing trained leaders to build the Kingdom of God. He reported that the WSM Kachumbala ofce has a Management Committee of 9 members who guide WSM activities in Eastern and Northern Uganda. The Kachumbala ofce is headed by the Coordinator assisted by volunteers.

Minute 6 (Achievements)
He reported that through evangelism (the core activity), his ofce has managed to win souls for Christ through door to door ministry, crusades and lms especially the Jesus lm Recent outreach missions in this region include:

Kachumbala Mission in 2012 where over 600 souls came to the Lord Katakwi Mission in 2013 where 917 souls came to the Lord Schools outreach to St. Johns College Kachumbala, Lifeline SS Bukedea and Bukedea Progressive SS in which hundreds of students gave their lives to Christ. In 2011, several primary schools were reached. Among these include Kachumbala PS, Amus PS; Akwarikwar PS. Hundreds of children gave their lives to Christ. WSM is planning to visit more schools as soon as the academic year begins. On discipleship, he reported that WSM has established & strengthened fellowships, home cells, Scripture Unions in schools. WSM has conducted Pastors & Clergy conferences, workshops and seminars. These were also conducted for other Christian groups.

Minute 7: (Social Concerns-FGM)

Female Genital Mutilation is a very painful and in cases very fatal evil practiced against girl children and women for generations by several communities in this region. In conjunction with our overseas partners, WSM has held anti- FGM conferences & other actions in the Sebei area, where the evil is most concentrated in Uganda & Kenya.

Minute 8: (Social Concerns-Education)

WSM is involved in helping the needy for education in the region. WSM is currently paying for 2 orphans in primary school, 4 orphans in secondary school and a needy student at university.

Minute 9: (Social Concerns-Anti-Poverty)

WSM supports several womens group in Kachumbala, Bukedea and elsewhere. We also support inter-denominational womens groups in Nyero, Kumi District to generate household incomes and ght poverty. These groups have been receiving support in forms of goats and cash.

Minute 10: (WSM Challenges)

The AGM noted that all the above activities require nances and personnel. Most of the people working with WSM are volunteers. A few, mainly at the WSM headquarters are not volunteers and need to be paid. WSM gets support from partners, mainly from overseas. Local pastors and other well wishers support WSM too. Funding also comes from the U20, 000/= from individual membership and U50, 000/= from churches or organisations. The AGM was encouraged to join membership so as to fulll the Great Commission (Mathew 28:16-20) The AGM appreciated that the benets of WSM membership include the excitement of seeing people come to Christ, involvement in ministry (missions, conferences, seminars etc), sharing compassion work with Christ for example helping orphans,

widows, other needy by contributing nancially and spiritually, the joy of knowing that we are answering to the Great Commission (Mathew 28:16-20). The AGM also heard that other challenges facing WSM in this region include: rent default of U300,000/= (@U100,000/= per month), public address system, furniture, printer, computers (2), electricity (U5,000/= per month), fuel (U25,000/= per week), communication (U10,000/= per week), volunteer assistant in the ofce (U20,000/= per week including lunch), among others.

Minute 10: (Reactions)

The AGM passed a motion of thanks to the WSM head ofce in Kampala and the WSM ofce in Eastern and Northern Uganda for all the work being done inspite of the challenges. In reactions, the AGM resolved to wait upon God for these challenges.

Minute 11: (WSM Presidents Remarks)

Rev. Dr. Medad Birungi was represented by the WSM Communication Coordinator, Alfred Wasike. He thanked the Coordinator and the Management Committee for organizing the inaugural AGM. He also thanked God and the members for making time to come to the AGM. Referring to the AGM theme scripture, he (Alfred) called for unity inspite if the challenges facing WSM. He thanked God that Rev. Erone raised a God centred family based on Jesus and education that is raising money for the ministry of Gods word and meeting some of these challenges. He urged the AGM to encourage membership payments to help raise funds for Gods work. He reminded the AGM that Rev. Erone is a WSM Board Member so their concerns are handled at the highest level. The AGM was informed about the various missions planned for 2014. Some of these include the International Healing Conference set for Kampala in May 2014. We have plans to hold massive crusades and revival weeks in Uganda including in the Eastern and Northern Uganda. In the ofng, we also have revival weeks in East Africa and beyond to South Africa (code-named Elephant Stampede in East London), North America and Europe. He said that we shall need missioners from among the AGM for all these missions. The WSM Communication Coordinator took the AGM through the REVOLUTIONARY POWER OF FORGIVENESS, based on Matthew 18:21-35. He recalled that Eastern and Northern have gone through a very bloody past and so the paramount need for forgiveness to help cleanse these societies torn by hatred.

He gave them the example of Rev. Birungi who grew up under a cruel and drunken father who repeatedly beat up members of his household. Rev. Birungi grew up with intense bitterness and wanted to kill his father and other people. He even tried to kill himself. But he was overcome by revolutionary forgiveness and changed his mind and heart. He went back home and evangelised his people to salvation. Rev. Birungi wrote a landmark book called Tombstones and Banana Trees in which the story of revolutionary forgiveness is enshrined.
Title: Tombstones and Banana Trees: A true Story

of Revolutionary Forgiveness

Authors: Medad Birungi with Craig Borlase Pages: 207 Publishers: David C Cook in Colorado (USA) Published: 2011 Price: US$14.99 (USHS40, 000) Reviewer: Alfred Wasike

Minute 12: (Memorable Moments)

Some of the young people led by Denis Aisu, a student of Ndejje University (white shirt) perform a skit for the AGM.

A sumptuous meal to crown up the AGM

Our children did not miss out on the sumptuous feast (above and below):

Even the DJs participated in the feast

Then came the LIVE surpriseat the WSM ofce

The WSM ofce block

The worlds longest River Nile at the Owen Falls Dam, Jinja, towards dawn:

Minute 13: Conclusion

This is a very fruitful AGM. We need to encourage more of these AGMs and other meetings because they act as audit trails into the activities of our people. Our activities are focused to building the Kingdom of God by helping all nations shine for Christ Our people are hungering for missions We need funding We have accountability We go for it

Thank you all for praying & supporting us To God be the Glory Alfred Wasike WSM Communication Coordinator