Into the Mountains as God’s Individuals Are Ready
By Owen Sweitzer, Bible Runner
Our vacation spot was the Nande sub-tribe that lived on the border between the Congo and Uganda, particularly the Rwenzori mountain vary. The Kinandi Bible was commissioned in 1980 and accomplished in April 2016. To our information, the Uganda Bible Society obtained its very first cargo in December 2023, with 800 copies bought by Venture Bible Runners. To succeed in the bottom of this mountain vary, we confronted a 12-hour bus trip to the tip of the street. From the bus cease, we then took a motorbike taxi (boda boda) for roughly an hour to achieve the mountain’s base, the place we might start our ascent.
Every day, we climbed up and down numerous sections of the mountain to achieve distant church buildings scattered all through the vary. Our boda boda drivers would drop us off after which return to house base to gather extra Bibles, assembly us additional up the mountain after every trek. Each night time, we camped at a mountain church simply to ascend even additional to satisfy the following group of believers at larger altitudes within the morning. Because the hikes lengthened, church members would come down to help us in our climb. Many of those believers, predominantly ladies, insisted on carrying our luggage – some weighing over 50 kilos – crammed with Bibles.
The breathtaking views from the mountains had been rivaled solely by the enjoyment of the folks and their eagerness to serve their fellow believers, guaranteeing that the Phrase of God reached their villages. By the third day on the mountain, phrase had unfold forward of us that God’s written Phrase had arrived within the space.
Whereas tenting far up the mountain, we encountered our first opposition. “Nightwalkers” is the time period used to explain a gaggle of cannibalistic, Devil-worshipers who roam at night time abducting folks – typically young children – to devour. Accounts from youngsters who handle to flee their abductions affirm that victims had been stored alive for 3 days. Satanic dances had been carried out every night time earlier than their ritualistic killing and consumption.
One night time, the Nightwalkers moved round our camp all night time, chanting ominously. A younger members of our group, sleeping within the church, recalled seeing a number of figures leaning over him as he lay nonetheless in mattress. As day broke and church members gathered by the decision of a drum, whispers of final night time’s encounter circulated all through their village. God had protected us all. Nobody from our crew or the village was taken, and the worry of the encounter was quickly overshadowed by the enjoyment of receiving full copies of God’s Phrase of their mom tongue.
We realized that the spoken phrase of God had first reached this area via a missionary in 1952, 72 years in the past! We witnessed a rare manifestation of the ability of the spoken phrase of God, as this physique of believers has continued to embody the 2 best commandments: demonstrating their love of God by loving one another. From that preliminary preaching of the Gospel, over 9 church buildings and two Christian colleges have been established, resulting in 1000’s of believers, extending into 4 generations. Now, armed with “Swords,” we pray the Gospel will attain all through your entire mountain vary.
Venture Bible Runners sole objective is to achieve these tribes and nations that have already got Bibles of their languages, however don’t have entry to them or can’t afford them. This ministry is lively in 26 international locations and is a 100% volunteer group. If you want to assist convey God’s Phrase to believers, please go to www.projectbiblerunners.com or www.fb.com/projectbiblerunners to search out out how one can become involved.
