Twenty Years Of KPC!
Apr 13, 2004
PASTOR Gary Skinner’s flock turned up in thousands to celebrate 20 years of existence on Easter Sunday at Namboole Stadium. It was a sight to behold.
By Joe Nam
PASTOR Gary Skinner’s flock turned up in thousands to celebrate 20 years of existence on Easter Sunday at Namboole Stadium. It was a sight to behold. As in football matches and the other crowd pulling events, the stadium came to life with jubilant worshippers singing and waving in the open air.
It was one big joyful party. The melodious voices of a mass choir brought down the feeling of a heavenly fete, as the worshippers sang and danced for the Lord. For three hours, an atmosphere of celebration engulfed the mammoth crowd. The worshippers sang, wept, prayed, laughed and joked. Tim Lwanga, the Minister for Ethics and Integrity, was among the dignitaries present.
Having left Canada to settle in this beautiful land in the troubled times of the 1980s, having been robbed at gunpoint several times, and having endured much to start an assembly of tongue- speaking, ‘fire-spiting’ and demon-chasing believers, Skinner can now say ‘Ebenezer,’ which means ‘thus far has the Lord brought us.’ And what better day is there to say this than on an Easter Sunday to over 10,000 ears.
Kampala Pentecostal Church (KPC) has now become synonymous with lots of good things. Most youth now go to KPC, where they yell, gyrate and boogie in prayer as opposed to the mainstream churches. Young ambitious men have stormed KPC looking for ladies to marry –– because word in town is, that is where the best gals are. And yes, thieves come too. Edward Lule, now a caretaker at KPC, became ‘the man of service’ on Sunday, when he testified how he had come to steal a mobile phone during a Sunday service in December 1999 and ended up getting saved. There are many stories of evil- lives-turned-round. Some are still too young to tell it like the two abandoned babies adopted by Pastor Chris and Heather Komagum, and another abandoned sweet little girl adopted by Pastor Mark Kigozi who were all dedicated to God on Sunday. And off course the many AIDS orphans under the Watoto Childcare Ministries, will one day tell their stories as adults.
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PASTOR Gary Skinner’s flock turned up in thousands to celebrate 20 years of existence on Easter Sunday at Namboole Stadium. It was a sight to behold. As in football matches and the other crowd pulling events, the stadium came to life with jubilant worshippers singing and waving in the open air.
It was one big joyful party. The melodious voices of a mass choir brought down the feeling of a heavenly fete, as the worshippers sang and danced for the Lord. For three hours, an atmosphere of celebration engulfed the mammoth crowd. The worshippers sang, wept, prayed, laughed and joked. Tim Lwanga, the Minister for Ethics and Integrity, was among the dignitaries present.
Having left Canada to settle in this beautiful land in the troubled times of the 1980s, having been robbed at gunpoint several times, and having endured much to start an assembly of tongue- speaking, ‘fire-spiting’ and demon-chasing believers, Skinner can now say ‘Ebenezer,’ which means ‘thus far has the Lord brought us.’ And what better day is there to say this than on an Easter Sunday to over 10,000 ears.
Kampala Pentecostal Church (KPC) has now become synonymous with lots of good things. Most youth now go to KPC, where they yell, gyrate and boogie in prayer as opposed to the mainstream churches. Young ambitious men have stormed KPC looking for ladies to marry –– because word in town is, that is where the best gals are. And yes, thieves come too. Edward Lule, now a caretaker at KPC, became ‘the man of service’ on Sunday, when he testified how he had come to steal a mobile phone during a Sunday service in December 1999 and ended up getting saved. There are many stories of evil- lives-turned-round. Some are still too young to tell it like the two abandoned babies adopted by Pastor Chris and Heather Komagum, and another abandoned sweet little girl adopted by Pastor Mark Kigozi who were all dedicated to God on Sunday. And off course the many AIDS orphans under the Watoto Childcare Ministries, will one day tell their stories as adults.
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