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8/3/2019 WSF Newsletter No.11
1/4Designed by Aspire Concepts www.aspireconcepts.co.uk World Shine Foundation is a recognised Scottish Charity SCO36750
Preparing the Church to shine for Christ for the healing of the nations (Rev. 22:2)
News rom World Shine Foundation
This is the condence we have in approaching God: that if we
ask anything according to his will he hears us. (1 John 5:14 NIV)
At the AGM of World Shine Foundation, held on 22 January
2011, our Chairperson Aidan Burn-Murdoch gave thanks
for another successful year. This was Aidans last AGM as
Chairperson, although he will continue as a trustee. We
would like to thank him for his gracous leadership of the
trustees since the formation of World Shine Foundation. We
are pleased that we will continue to have the benet of his
wisdom and experience. We welcome Vicki Shaver as our
new Chairperson from August. You will nd a statement of
accounts prepared by our long suffering and hard working
Treasurer Ron Hockey later in this issue. Thank you to our
wonderful supporters.
this issue, the focus is on the healing ministry of World
Shine Ministries. David Coates report gives an overview
of the different facets of this ministry. In Uganda medical
care is scarce and out of reach of many. We cannot fail to
be impressed by the self-sacrice and tireless dedication
of those who voluntarily
give their lives in prayer
and caring for those in
need.
We are pleased to have
Rev. Medad Birungi in
the U.K. during June,July and August to
promote his new book
Tombstones and Banana
Trees. This book, co-
authored by Medad and
Craig Borlase, tells the
amazing story of his
turbulent and distressing
childhood and young
adulthood, and how hislife was transformed by Gods grace.
The book, subtitled A True Story of Revolutionary
Forgiveness spells out how the Holy Spirit took a young
life blighted by hatred, anger, and a thirst for revenge
and replaced it with one dedicated to love, humility and a
desire for reconciliation. The book is launched in the UK
in July and is available on Amazon.com and from most
Christian booksellers. There will be an opportunity to hear
Medad speak at different locations in the UK this Summer,
including the New Wine and Soul Survivor conferences.
Flora Mackenzie
WSF Secretary
Prayer, Praise and Parliament in Uganda
One of the trustees of World Shine Foundation, David Coates
and his daughter Hannah and a church friend Nana Fynn-Garbrah went to Uganda from 17th September to 3rd October
2010. Here is his report:
The three of us went to visit some projects that World Shine
supports and to attend a prayer conference in Kampala.
Two months I had recently broken my back in three places
in a boat accident in Greece, so was nding some daily
tasks quite tricky! Nevertheless, the Lord answered our
prayers and provided Cowboy to help me get out of bed,
tie my shoelaces and many more practical things without
which I could not have managed!
On arrival at Entebbe on Saturday morning, we wasted no
time resting, but raced up to Kabale to preach on Sunday
Newsletter No. 11 email enquiries to [email protected] July 2011
Rev. Birungi & David Coates at the Prayer Conference
Medads extraordinary life storyavailable now!
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morning at Lydia Balores home church. She and her
assistant Johnson run a healing house just outside Kabale
and they were very pleased to see us again. The work was
very busy with typically twenty people coming to the house
for prayer every day. Lydia is getting older and has had some
ailments herself but through Gods grace she has kept up
the busy work. Johnson and Moreen have been growing in
spiritual stature and were also were blessed this year with
a baby boy.
The Church of Uganda Bishop George has been singing
their praises and endorsing their ministry and encouragingpeople with persistent health problems to go and see Lydia
and Johnson. Since then they have been even busier! The
intercessory support team has grown to 50 on a Wednesday
night and 150 once a month when people from all over the
diocese come and meet in Johnsons house (the bigger
of the two) to pray for the work and join in praying for
sick people who are there at the time. This is a wonderful
way for people who have a desire to learn more about the
healing and deliverance ministry to be taught and receive
practical instruction and demonstration. Many peoplewho are now in this ministry have been members of Lydias
prayer group.
One of the problems of such intense ministry is never having
a break or holiday, or being able to get away and talk and
plan for the future, as you are so busy with everyday chores.
We invited Lydia and Johnson to the prayer conference in
Kampala and stopped on the way at the game reserve at
Lake Mburo. We trusted the Lord that they would have
enough room for our vehicle load of people and they had
the exact number of spare beds for us, praise the Lord.
We had a lovely supper by the lake with the hippos, and in
the morning did a walking safari among the Impala, Zebra
and er, buffalo - oops! Good job we had a gun if we had
needed it!
Lydia is nding it difcult to climb the large hill to get to
the village church nowadays, and Johnson said a motorbike
(1,500) would be a perfect solution. She could then ride
on the back while Johnson drives. The motorbike wouldbe useful for getting supplies from town, such as sacks
of beans, rice and matoke bananas for the ever growing
household. All the sick people there need constant feeding,
but rarely bring food with them! Lydia also needs to rebuild
a commercial property which was left to her when her
husband died. If 12,000 was spend on it, it could generate
enough income to run the healing centre and make them
self sufcient and provide her grandsons with somewhere
to live and an inheritance after she has gone to be with the
Lord. That would enable the current land and property tocontinue in the Lords work with Johnson and Moreen. In
the meantime, World Shine supports the work with regular
payments to help with their food and running costs. We took
with us a Yamaha Keyboard with a car battery attachment
to enable it to be played by Johnson at evening prayer and
worship times. This was a much needed piece of equipment
and they were absolutely delighted to have it. Currently
Hannah Coates with Lydia and Johnson at the Prayer Con-ference In Kampala
Rev. Birungi & David Coates at the Prayer Conference
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there is no electricity at
their house but they have
the opportunity now
to have it installed for
400 as a new cable is
being laid through their
village.
We proceeded on to
Kampala where we
stayed in a hotel near
the Church of Uganda
prayer conference. It
was very comfortable,
and I enjoyed immensely
having a week to share
and pray with Lydia,Johnson and another
prayer team member
Kibedi Jackson. Cowboy
and I shared a room
where he looked after
me with great patience.
Hannah and Nana stayed with Rev Christine Shimanya
who was hosting the conference. We prayed powerfully for
the nation of Uganda, and also for the UK. The Intercessors
for Uganda asked me to introduce the night when theyprayed for our nation. The highlight of the conference was
to hold a service in the Parliament Chambers where the
Government and M.P.s meet. A worship group sang for an
hour before a visiting speaker from Nigeria talked about
Biblical Government and Integrity versus corruption.
We then prayed for the up and coming elections that they
would result in godly men being elected. A Bishop gave a
closing address on what sort of men Uganda wanted to see
running the country! We were greeted by two government
ministers who are Christians and were part of the prayerconference. These were the Minister for Integrity and
the Minister for Planning and Development. This was an
amazing meeting to be held in the House of Commons
of Uganda, and moreover, we were there to take part in it!
Lydia and Johnson were also there and it was as much a
treat and honour for them as it was for us. May God hear
those prayers, and may such meetings take place in or own
parliament assemblies in the UK!
At the Prayer Conference, Rev. Medad Birungi, a muchsought after speaker, gave a couple of powerful messages
on healing and asked Lydia to receive commendation for
the work she was doing in Kabale district. We left feeling
there would be more conferences like this.
Several nights during the week I was at the conference I
awoke in the early hours of the morning hearing loud and
intense prayer in the local language. I repeatedly heard my
name being mentioned, and realised that Lydia, Johnson
and Kibedi Jackson were praying for me and my back to be
healed from nearby rooms. A very humbling experience!
Opening o Francis Prayer House
The last Port of Call in the Rukungiri Area was to visit
Francis Musoke who visited the UK three or four years ago.
Francis Musoke (next to David Coates) & the Prayer Fellowship at the New Prayer Centre at Rukungiri
The Glory of God Fell at the Dedication of the Prayer Centre
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You may remember his testimony of healing after a spear
was thrown at him by the local community and entered his
belly at the front and came out of his back! Ugandan spears
have blades a foot long attached to a stout wooden shaft!
You can imagine the damage that injury would cause! It
would be fatal in normal circumstances. He was attacked
because he became a drunken terrorist to the locals and
broke into their houses and beat them up in their own homes
and robbed them. In African society, because the police
force can be bribed, locals agree to remove troublesome
criminals by mob violence where no single person can
be accused of killing the person. If the elders say to the
police that somebody died through mob violence, they walk
away and think there must have been good reason. No one
expected Francis to live, after the community took matters
into their own hands. However, local Christians found him
bleeding and dying like the man on the Jericho road. Like
good Samaritans, they took him to the hospital and paid for
treatment and laid hands on him and prayed! Miraculously,
he survived, gave his life to Jesus and became an evangelist!
If you meet him you can ask to see the massive scars where
the spear entered and exited his body at that time.
On recovery, Francis attached himself to Lydias prayer and
healing centre in Kabale, and learned a lot about the healing
and deliverance ministry. He then went to Rukungiri district
and started a similar ministry there in his own home. Sincethen, over sixty cell groups have been started in the North
Kigezi area and many hundreds of people have been healed
through prayer.
Since we were near Francis, I had asked if we could call by
and visit him. It turned out that he had bought a new plot
of land on which to build a much larger prayer centre as
there had been local complaints from neighbours about
noise and singing through the night from his other house
and he had been arrested by police and put in prison for a
few days a couple of times! He needed a place away from
close proximity to other homes where locals would not be
disturbed by overnight praise and worship.
When I arrived with Rev Medad, there was a gathering of
a hundred or more people to meet us, and I was asked to
preach and ofcially dedicate the house for prayer ministry
and declare it open! As we prayed afterwards, it seemed
like the glory of the Lord had come down and everyone fell
on their knees before the throne of God.
I preached on Psalm 18 and also on the story of Bethel
where Jacob discovered that there was an altar to God set
up by his grandfather Abraham (Gen. 12 v. 7) but he knew
it not! We prayed that angels would descend and ascend to
the throne of God in this place just as Jacob saw them doing
so at Bethel. Jacob had said, How awesome is this place!
This is none other than the house of God and this is the gate
of Heaven! (Genesis 28 v. 17). We were not disappointed!
God heard our prayers! May that place be the gateway of
Heaven to many that need healing in future. Amen.
As you can see, the prayer centre has only got the framework
in place and tarpaulins on the roof. About 12,000 is
needed to nish the property. Please pray for this need to
be supplied!
Davids report will be continued in the next issue.
News rom World Shine Ministries
Appeal or Land or the Secondary School
After a promising start where 3800 came in, the appeal
has not yet raised the required money to meet the necessarydeposit to secure the land. We ask for urgent prayer that
sufcient money will come in to meet the new deadline set
by the land owner.
WSF STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT 2010
Statement o Account or the year ending 30th June 2010
Receipts 2009 2010
General Donations 54,335 50,482
Git Aid tax recovered 11,219 8,604
Bank interest 8 5
Total Receipts 65,562 59,091
Payments
Payments or charitable activities
Funding or projects WSM Uganda 55,102 55,355
Printing/Postage 829 1,523
Travel 2,612 100
Bank charges 187 -
Expenses - Missionary Coordinator 783 500
Website 104 -
Fundraising Expenses 476 366
Total Payments 60,093 57,844
(Defcit) Surplus or the year 5,469 1,247
A ull copy o the Annual Report and Accounts can
be obtained on request rom the Secretary.