Pastor Moses Nkwatsibwe has been a dear friend of ours since our first mission trip to Uganda in 2011. He is a strong and faithful man of God, who The Lord has shaped into a mighty evangelist for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This is Moses Testimony:
Moses Nkwatsibwe was born in Kabale, on Christmas Day, 1972, as the second born in a family that eventually included five living children (two boys and three girls). Kabale is in the hillside region at the southwestern-most part of Uganda. It is a town located on the main road on the way to the Rwandan border.
The family suffered greatly through poverty. As a child in Nyancwamba, Moses would have rice, sugar, or meat to eat, or soda to drink, only on Easter and Christmas. Some years there was no money to purchase rice, sugar, meat, or soda even on these two holidays. At one time in his childhood, Moses’ only clothing was a sweater that would cover him from neck to foot, serving as both a pair of shorts and a shirt. This confused the village children, and brought ridicule.
When Moses and Jenina, his sister reached the second grade, their mother became ill. Their father was working far from home, living with another woman and provided little financial support to the family. These conditions required Jenina to drop out of school to take care of their mother, saving tuition money for Moses’ education. In 1983, a dramatic event occurred. An old man named Zedekiah Kibariroha, arrived in the community. He preached of Christ and His power. When Moses heard this man speak, in his desperate need to find truth he received Christ Jesus, even though he did not yet fully know what this meant. After receiving the truth of the Gospel, Moses immediately went home and burnt all the fetishes that his parents had purchased from the witch doctors and brought into the home. This became the starting point that led to his call into the ministry, although he did not know it at the time.
He has said;
“The world and its riches cannot give you the kind of peace that God gives to those who trust in Him. Whoever receives Christ Jesus can experience a peace and joy that transcends circumstances and human understanding. Even though you may pass through a “furnace” of affliction and many kinds of temptations, God gives a special grace to those in Christ, so that you will be able to endure hardships without experiencing despair and hopelessness.“
At the age of 24, in February 1996, he relocated to the Kiburara Trading Center where, by God’s grace, with his evangelistic gifting, he planted his first church with just two members. Prior to the church’s inception, he spent an entire year in intercessory prayer and house-to-house evangelism. There was no financial support. Moses owned only one set of clothes, which he would clean each night, lay out to dry, and put back on in the morning. It was a difficult life that, to many, looked like a foolish waste of his education.
During this time, Moses decided to apply for a teaching job in Kiburara Primary School but in 1998, he resigned from his teaching position and departed to study at the Alpha-Omega Seminary in eastern Uganda.
The trials during the seminary years were almost unbearable. It was difficult to believe that he would ever graduate. At one time he sat down with his wife, Sarah, (they married in 2002) and decided to abandon graduation from Seminary, because of the school debt. Later, however, Sarah told him,
“You have to make it!”
Thinking back to those times, Moses says: “I thank God who gave me such a kind woman as Sarah for a wife. She was strong enough in her faith to support me in this kind of life.”
He asked;
“What is a Call to the Ministry? A calling is God’s personal, individual invitation to carry out a unique task – a form of service to Himself – that He has for you.“
This sounds simple, but how do you know when God is calling you and what form of service, He is calling you to perform? Is there any way a person can be sure they are doing the task God has assigned?
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