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Harvesting Hope: Cultivating our Domestic Church through Prayer
Harvesting Hope: Cultivating our Domestic Church through Prayer
Kampala, Uganda
Prayer can be an expression of love and hope a way of affirming core values and connecting with God.
HCFM is so grateful for sowing into harvesting hope through prayer over the years and seeing lives change as hope is restored to the hurting through our programs.
During our home visitation, we reached out to Antonia our volunteer who had a motorcycle accident and has been bedridden for three months with a fractured leg. We are journeying with her through follow up check-ups and prayers.
‘’The visits, calls, prayers, and follow-ups have encouraged me and makes my life move on smoothly, am feeling better now," noted Antonia
In the Month of November 2023, we reached to the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu and the Leaders of Family Life and Marriage in Gulu Archdiocese training them on how best they can reach out to families in the Parishes through home visits and encouraging the family prayer, ‘’Rosary Prayer.’’
Northern Uganda lived in war for more than 20 years and now as the Lord's Resistance Army LRA threat has subsided in this region many families are united.
The current generation of residents grew up in internally displaced person camps where there was abuse, disruption of positive cultural values, violence, mistreatment, loss of religious norms and no formal work training hence no good family life.
‘’This training has opened our eyes to God and we have realized that there is unity in having the family prayer because it brings us together as a family, we are going to share this good news to families in our community that ‘’The Family That Prays Together Stays Together,’, noted Mr.and Mrs.Ochen after the training.
Harvesting Hope: Cultivating our Domestic Church through Prayer
Harvesting Hope: Cultivating our Domestic Church through Prayer
Fort Portal, Uganda
We have witnessed the power of prayer in expressing love and hope as a core value in connecting families with God.
We are blessed that we have seen lives if people change and families unite after our efforts of restoring hope through encouraging people to pray together starting from their homes before coming to community churches our programs and efforts are not wasted evidenced by the testimonies we get after the follow-ups and re-visits that we make to homes and individuals that we have previously visited.
In the outreaches that we have made, we reached out to Mr. Tugume Vincent who testified to us how he was getting addicted to alcoholism but after getting a healthy sharing with our team and being empowered to pray, his life changed back to normal and he is back to doing his work and saving all that he was taking for alcohol, his wife who had left the home with children due to violence, they are all back and they are happy again as a family.
We have a monthly program of Peyton Prayer Guild where members from different guilds meet monthly and pray together for their families and personal needs they also visit the sick and we have seen people narrate to us how their lives are getting healed and peace is being witnessed in their home, their spiritual and prayer life positively change every day and they vow not to stop the praying habit and teaching others to pray mostly praying through the intersection of Venerable Patrick Peyton.
A World at Prayer is a World at Peace.
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