The 9-year-old healing pastor
Dec 05, 2005
A NINE-year-old born-again preacher is pulling crowds of fascinated believers to his mother’s newly-established church in Kasoma zone, Luweero. The crowds throng Jesus Salvation Church for blessings, healing and miracles.
By Frederick Kiwanuka
A NINE-year-old born-again preacher is pulling crowds of fascinated believers to his mother’s newly-established church in Kasoma zone, Luweero. The crowds throng Jesus Salvation Church for blessings, healing and miracles.
Pastor Kisa Kya yesu (Jesus’ Grace) claims to have died and resurrected. His over 200 followers, many of whom have run away from other churches, testify that he has powers to recoup squandered fortunes, tame errant spouses and heal terminal illnesses including AIDS. Some believers, like 60-year-old Nora Namubiru, have testified that he resurrected their dead relatives.
The fiery juvenile preacher, who works his audience into a frenzy, came into the limelight three months ago after ‘demons’ allegedly forced him to drop out of Makindye Lwagula Memorial school in Kampala, where he was a pupil.
He says he cannot read the bible, but ably interprets and preaches by it due to powers of the holy spirit.
Kisa’s mother, Pastor Rose Muwanguzi, a divorcee, who established the church in April this year, tells believers that her son had been killed by ‘demons’ at the age of three but she prayed very hard and he resurrected by the grace of Jesus, hence the name “Kisa kya yesuâ€. His original name was Vincent Sango.
Outside church, Kisa kya yesu is like any other child of his age. He plays with toys and asks innocent questions. But his mother cautiously bars him from going very far. “The lord cautioned me not to let him loiter around or else the demons might take him for good,†she says.
Kisa kya yesu sometimes goes out to minister to born-again congregations in Luweero and Kampala, where his preaching works crowds into a frenzy.
Amid a hallelujah chorus from the congregation, Kisa kya Yesu in his innocent testimony narrates how he ‘tasted death.’ “I saw the demon in form of a giant figure that was dressed in black,†he says.
Kisa kya yesu says the demon was stretching out to grab him when Jesus, in form of another giant figure wearing white glittering robes, cut the demon’s hand with a panga. His mother chips in: “At that moment, the dead boy resurrected all of a sudden. At first he could not talk, but we continued to pray until he suddenly started to talk. We praised God that whole day and many people got saved.â€
By then, Pastor Muwanguzi, who had divorced from Kisa’s father, Francis Tamale, was staying with her son at Kawuku near Entebbe.
Muwanguzi says in April 2005 she had a vision in which she was being urged to go and preach God’s word in Luweero. She then set up a church in a car garage. Muwanguzi’s coming has, however, been received with mixed feelings by other born-again churches, who complain that she has drained their churches.
The rival pastors, who allege that the new church is preaching demons, last month took their complaint to Luweero Resident District Commissioner Geoffrey Kyomukama, in a bid to have the new church closed, but their complaint fell on deaf ears.
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A NINE-year-old born-again preacher is pulling crowds of fascinated believers to his mother’s newly-established church in Kasoma zone, Luweero. The crowds throng Jesus Salvation Church for blessings, healing and miracles.
Pastor Kisa Kya yesu (Jesus’ Grace) claims to have died and resurrected. His over 200 followers, many of whom have run away from other churches, testify that he has powers to recoup squandered fortunes, tame errant spouses and heal terminal illnesses including AIDS. Some believers, like 60-year-old Nora Namubiru, have testified that he resurrected their dead relatives.
The fiery juvenile preacher, who works his audience into a frenzy, came into the limelight three months ago after ‘demons’ allegedly forced him to drop out of Makindye Lwagula Memorial school in Kampala, where he was a pupil.
He says he cannot read the bible, but ably interprets and preaches by it due to powers of the holy spirit.
Kisa’s mother, Pastor Rose Muwanguzi, a divorcee, who established the church in April this year, tells believers that her son had been killed by ‘demons’ at the age of three but she prayed very hard and he resurrected by the grace of Jesus, hence the name “Kisa kya yesuâ€. His original name was Vincent Sango.
Outside church, Kisa kya yesu is like any other child of his age. He plays with toys and asks innocent questions. But his mother cautiously bars him from going very far. “The lord cautioned me not to let him loiter around or else the demons might take him for good,†she says.
Kisa kya yesu sometimes goes out to minister to born-again congregations in Luweero and Kampala, where his preaching works crowds into a frenzy.
Amid a hallelujah chorus from the congregation, Kisa kya Yesu in his innocent testimony narrates how he ‘tasted death.’ “I saw the demon in form of a giant figure that was dressed in black,†he says.
Kisa kya yesu says the demon was stretching out to grab him when Jesus, in form of another giant figure wearing white glittering robes, cut the demon’s hand with a panga. His mother chips in: “At that moment, the dead boy resurrected all of a sudden. At first he could not talk, but we continued to pray until he suddenly started to talk. We praised God that whole day and many people got saved.â€
By then, Pastor Muwanguzi, who had divorced from Kisa’s father, Francis Tamale, was staying with her son at Kawuku near Entebbe.
Muwanguzi says in April 2005 she had a vision in which she was being urged to go and preach God’s word in Luweero. She then set up a church in a car garage. Muwanguzi’s coming has, however, been received with mixed feelings by other born-again churches, who complain that she has drained their churches.
The rival pastors, who allege that the new church is preaching demons, last month took their complaint to Luweero Resident District Commissioner Geoffrey Kyomukama, in a bid to have the new church closed, but their complaint fell on deaf ears.
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