Muslim Evangelizes for Christ?

One of the projects I’ve been working with the church on here in Kampala, is starting a network of Cell Groups. These are small groups that meet in home all around the city on a couple designated nights each month to pray and care for individual needs. There are several more challenges to launching such a project here than in the United States. For example, both transportation and communication are much more expensive and complicated here. Most people do not have a car and therefore must take public transport to a meeting. Because most roads are not paved outside of downtown and there are no traffic lights, traffic congestion is usually awful, therefore, it takes a long time to get places. Furthermore, while everyone has a cell phone, the system here is not by monthly contract, but by prepaid airtime that you load on your phone. And, many of our cell leaders can not afford to call the members of their own Cell groups to check in on them or remind them of the next meeting.

Despite, these challenges, Cell Groups have gotten off to a great start! The Church has 15 Groups that meet in different neighborhoods, and every week we are hearing different testimonies of how groups are growing and people are getting saved. But, here is one particularly astonishing story.

In Uganda, it is very common for every household to have help with cooking or cleaning, no matter how poor. I view it as the way they help distribute the wealth. Anyway, the “help” for one particular Host Home is Muslim. While she does not participate in the Cell Group, she is always present to help serve tea. So one night, the Muslim Helper invites a friend to visit the Cell Group. Her friend ends up receiving prayer and accepting Christ into her life! What a stunning conversion story - to be invited to a Christian Cell Group by a Muslim friend and then end of following Christ! It’s a good reminder that God does not see the same social barriers that we do.