Bweyinda the child singer is back

May 27, 2005

Do you know of any children in Uganda who have adopted children? David Bweyinda has. He was only 15-years-old when he adopted his first child, and today he is a ‘father’ of two.

By Elvis Basudde
Do you know of any children in Uganda who have adopted children? David Bweyinda has. He was only 15-years-old when he adopted his first child, and today he is a ‘father’ of two.

Bweyinda adopted two beautiful children, Kwagala Kundwa who is two-and-a-half-years-old and seven-year-old Valentine Sword, from Rwanda where he had gone for missionary work.

He says he cried when he saw Valentine at a conference in Rwanda, where he had been invited to speak. “He was very sick. He was in a bad shape. He had syphilis. I saw the young innocent boy suffering and I cried,” he says.

Bweyinda says he pleaded to God to heal the boy.

“The boy’s mother said her husband had disappeared and she did not know whether or not he was still alive.”

“I was surprised when the boy suddenly started calling me ‘dad,’ and refused to go back with his mother. He stayed with me in my room for two days.” Then one night the Lord told me to go with the boy to Uganda and take care of him,” Bweyinda recalls.

His only challenge was how he would support the boy since he had no job and was still young under his mother’s care. Bweyinda’s mother was not very pleased when she saw Bweyinda with the little boy.

“My mother asked me how I was going to support the boy and I told her to ‘leave everything to God. He would provide. And God has since made provision and we have never gone without food,” says Bweyinda.

Sword was two years old when Bweyinda adopted him in 2000. Today he is seven and in primary three at Faith Junior Parents School in Masajja.

Kundwa (meaning love in Rwandese), the second child, was also adopted from Rwanda last year after Bweyinda prayed for her mother. The girl had overstayed in the womb for 13 months and when the mother delivered, she asked Bweyinda to take the child.

“God has a plan for these children. I want them to grow in the fear of God. I don’t want them to become victims of things they do not know. You never know they might become the next presidents of Rwanda,” Bweyinda stresses.
The children look healthy and happy and speak Luganda.

Bweyinda is the youngest in the family of two boys and three girls. Betty Namaganda, a renowned gospel singer is his sister. Bweyinda’s mother, pastor Nakafeero, founder and senior pastor of Redeemed Church of Christ in Masajja, taught Bweyinda the Bible right from childhood.

In the early 90s Bweyinda was the eight-year-old boy who used to play a keyboard while singing and preaching the gospel on the streets with his mother.
Bweyinda will be turning 20 in December.

Bweyinda has been going places. His name has featured in East and Central African newspapers and magazines. Today, he is a full-time pastor at Redeemed Church of Christ, where he is the assistant pastor while his mother is the senior pastor.
He preached his first sermon when he was six years old.

“While preaching at crusades, I have seen people running to the altar to receive Jesus. I have seen the youth surrendering their drugs, cigarettes and condoms on the pulpits, kneeling down and crying to the lord to forgive them,” he says.

Bweyinda says at 10 years old, as he was growing up, he used to ask his mother many questions about life and death. He was particularly worried about death. His mother told him the only way a man could escape death is by believing in Christ as his personal saviour.

Pastor George William Sande of Redeemed Church says he has known Bweyinda to be a teacher of social discipline.

“He is a natural boy. When time comes for him to associate with his peers, he does it and brings out his youthful attribute and if time comes to serve God, he does it unreservedly and he has touched both the young and the adults,” says pastor Sande.

Bweyinda is remembered for his 1990s Birigwawo album which urged children to repent and return to God, because ‘all would come to an end.
He has recorded five musical tapes.

For the last eight years Bweyinda has not been active on the music scene. He has been undertaking theological training.

But today, he has bounced back on the music scene with a sixth-track album titled Gologoosa, released last Monday by Lusyn Enterprises. The tracks are Gologoosa, Forgiveness, Olina Ekitiibwa, Anameremeta, Bwana wa mabwan and Nafunye Omusajja.
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