My name is Emmanuel Maganda. I'm a Ugandan by nationality. I was born and raised in a Catholic & Muslim family in a small remote village on the showers of lake Victoria. I'm a husband to one wife and father of 10 children - 5 of these are biological and 5 are adopted. I'm a radical believer in the Lord Jesus with an apostolic calling, set apart for the gospel of the kingdom to the lost around the world. Prior to my conversion shortly after my high school (2007) got connected to one businessman. He was doing business in South Sudan.  My parents were too poor and could not afford to take me to the university or college. And being the edest of 6 children born to my parents, expectations were upon on me. This bothered a lot till asked to accompany this business man on one of his business trips. The man accepted and so I got chance to have a business tour in the republic of South Sudan. While in here (South Sudan) I started some small business. However, the business did not do well.  I made a few friends here. It was a wrong company - most of these friends were drunkards. As a result, I also got influenced and started a serious business of drinking. Even when I had no money, my friends could buy me alcohol.  I could drink and even sleep in the bar for some nights. I enjoyed it. I couldn't live without it. Alcohol became part of my everyday life. I was so addicted and processed that I said to myself; this is the way to go. My life completely lost meaning and purpose. I even forgot about where I came from. Seems like I was going to die in South Sudan. But one evening, while I was walking to the bar, I met a stranger. This guy greeted me and introduced himself to me. On hearing he was a missionary, I never wanted to hear from him. The spirits of drunkardness could not allow me give attention to this gentleman. However, some strange feelings of guilt were going on inside of me. He asked to know where I lived. Gave him direction so fast so he could leave me go. I knew he would not come. It was so disappointing that the man did not give up on me.  Very early the following morning was this missionary at my door. On hearing his voice, didn't want to open for him. The more he kept knocking at my door the more I got irritated. I began to regret why I even shared my location with him. Sick and tired of his persistent knocks at my door, I got up - opened for him. He came in with a Bible in his hands. I never wanted to look at it.  He sat down next to me and looking straight in my eyes, he began by telling me how God loved me and how special I was before God. This sounded so strange in my ears. He opened his Bible and if I can remember well, he read to me from the books of John and Romans. This time, I could not help the feelings of shame and guiltiness which were going on in my heart. I asked him a few questions regarding salvation and being born again. His responses to my questions satisfied me.  At the end of our long discussion, I had no option but to surrender my life to Christ as my personal Lord and savior. I believed in my heart that Jesus is Lord and confessed with my mouth my sins. Instantly I felt a very heavy burden being lifted off my shoulders following my confession. Felt so much peace. My heart filled up with joy. I began to come back to my senses. My eyes opened. Seemed like I had been unconscious and now I was being restored. It was a sweet experience.. This man prayed for me. And so my friendship began with him. Because I had stayed in South Sudan for some good time, I had learnt to speak the Arabic of South Sudan. This man invited me to help him with translating from English into Arabic language.  I started moving with him from place to place as he nurtured and discipled me. We reached out to my old friends in the bar. Preached the gospel to them - they all believed and got saved. They joined us. We began to move together preaching the good news. We led many to the Lord. We established a couple of home cells. Formed a number of Bible study groups and home fellowships. Six months later, our mentor left us.  In the same spirit I led the team. We moved from bar to bar, village to village preaching the gospel. We made more disciples. We opened our first Church. The turn up shocked us. People were so thirsty and hungry for the word that many got to walk miles and miles on foot to come listen to the word of God. South Sudan was in flames for Jesus.  Unfortunately amidst this amazing revival, were forced to leave the country due to increased insecurities during a political transition that officially gave birth to South Sudan as an independent nation in 2011. Glad the gentleman who led me to Christ also introduced me to the missionary training school here in Uganda. I attended the school 2015 - 2016. After my graduation, under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, God put a fresh burden on my heart for the lost as never before. With this vision heavily weighing on my heart God led me to a Muslim community. I have lived in this community since December 2016 reaching out to the prodigal sons and daughters. By God's grace, I found a man of peace who was a Muslim. Preached to him the gospel, slowly by slowly he believed, and later on his whole family believed.  Through this Muslim man and his family, more doors opened to reach more people. As I write, by God's grace, we have our main Church and missions base in the heart of Islam. We also have 9 other local churches planted in different remote and hard to reach villages here in Eastern Uganda, making us a total of 10 local churches as a ministry. By grace, my wife and I help oversee the progress of our ministry works and monthly mission trips. We serve with faithful and committed indigenous daughters and sons of God with varying spiritual gifts and callings. We are a church planting mission movement dedicated to taking the gospel of the kingdom to the lost especially those in the hard to reach places. We are praying that God picked me from the depths of lostness and hopelessness to make me His vessel and fisher of lost souls. Thank You, Jesus. We live to proclaim His saving grace, freely available t all who believe. We are passionate about watching lives transformed, families empowered, disciples multiplied and nations prepared for eternity. But we can't hit this goal alone. We love to work in partnership with others. Join us so that every person hears of God's saving love at least once.

Emmanuel Maganda

Founder & Vision Bearer