Masaka Baptist College
Masaka Baptist College was founded in 1999 with just two students and a clear burden to train full-time Christian servants for the work of pastoring, church planting, evangelism, and teaching. Through the years, the college has remained committed to equipping men and women of God for faithful service in the ministry. Many of its graduates are now serving the Lord in their local churches or have gone on to start churches of their own.
Masaka Baptist College offers a four-year course of study, meeting for evening classes every Monday and Tuesday from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The school year consists of three 11-week terms, following the Ugandan academic calendar.
The college provides instruction in a wide range of practical and biblical subjects, including The Christian Home, Christian Leadership, Christian Finances, Philosophy of Christian Education, and Baptist Distinctives. By the completion of the program, students will have worked verse by verse through the entire New Testament. As a result, they graduate with a solid working knowledge of the Scriptures and the ability to preach and teach the truths they have learned (II Timothy 2:2).
At present, Masaka Baptist College has nine students enrolled. The Bible reminds us that the laborers are few, and we ask that you would pray with us that God will continue to send students with teachable hearts who can be trained to carry the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to others.
Church Planting
Starting churches out of other churches is the natural, biblical way to continue the propagation of Christianity and the church. Since 1997 we have had the opportunity of seeing eleven existing churches established. Please pray for these churches and their individual specific needs.
Click on the images below to read more about each Church.
MASAKA INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH
WORD OF LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH
BACK TO THE BIBLE INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH
NEW HOPE INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH
LUSANA INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH
KYAZANGA INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH
MBIRIZI BAPTIST CHURCH
KABASESE BAPTIST CHURCH
LAKEVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH
GADUMIRE BAPTIST CHURCH
BUTEBO BAPTIST CHURCH
NANTWANA BAPTIST CHURCH
NABITENDE BAPTIST CHURCH
LIGHT INDEPENDENT BAPTIST CHURCH
Tri-Annual Bible Institute
The Tri-annual Bible Institute (TBI) is a training program designed for pastors and church leaders who are unable to attend the regular classes offered at Masaka Baptist College. Held three times each year during school breaks, TBI provides an intensive week of instruction, with classes running eight hours a day from Monday through Friday.
Because many of these men serve in village ministries, this format works especially well with their schedules. During the institute, we provide meals, lodging, and the books needed for each course, while the men are responsible for their own transportation to and from the training.
When we held our first TBI in August 2012, we had eighteen men representing ten different churches—either ministries started out of Masaka Independent Baptist Church or churches that had come to us for assistance in getting established.
Since that first institute, the ministry has grown to approximately 65 men from 11 different churches. In addition, the Lord has allowed us to begin another TBI in northeastern Uganda, where approximately 25 more men are now being trained.
If you would like to give towards this ministry in the training of men of God for the ministry, please send your gifts to BIMI account #793
and earmark it: TBI. These gifts will go towards providing for these men when they come. Please pray for our next TBI that will be August, 2015.
Village Mentorship & Assistance Ministry
This ministry is focused on assisting the churches mentioned above, along with their leadership, in areas such as evangelism, discipleship, open-air meetings, medical clinics, counseling, and church planting. Through this effort, we believe the Lord will help us further expand our church-planting vision and make an even greater impact on Uganda for Christ.
God has also given me faithful men to labor alongside in this ministry, including Brother Ddungu Charles, Pastor Sserunjogi Paul, and Brother Nsimbi Richard. Sally, together with Miss Aikoro Monica, is also actively involved in training pastors’ wives.
Another important part of this ministry is our Village Preaching Ministry, where our men, under the leadership of Rutabagyisha Grossvenor, go into various villages to conduct public preaching and evangelistic outreach.