Churches in the Slums

In the early 2000's, Pastor Jonah felt led to start a church and a school in the Moslem dominated slums. Today there is the main church building and several smaller rented church spaces. I was asked to speak at one of the rented church spaces below.

The main church building below can hold about 200 people. The building took about 6 years to get where it is now today. They build, then wait for funds, and then build some more. I don't think they have down here. They also made it a priority to improve the surrounding water drainage channel ditches before working on the building. Pastor Jonah told me that several babies were killed in the flooding which gave the ditch priority. Here in Uganda meeting the needs of the people is always top priority. Pastor Jonah is standing with the church to his right. This large clean church building stands out in the middle of the surround slum area.