Baraka is currently the Executive Director of the Uganda Chapter of the US-Based Words of Hope Ministries, the Director for Missions Outreach Uganda and a televangelism pastor since 2020.
Canon Baraka Assigned Caretaker Archdeacon For Feared Bbaale Archdeaconry – Daring Evangelist Defies the ‘Place of Death’ Mystery
Renowned Christian youth mobiliser and time-tested evangelist, Rev. Can. Capt. Titus Baraka has been assigned as caretaker Archdeacon for Bbaale Archdeaconry in Kayunga District, hitherto dubbed the place of death after successive death of two ministers assigned to serve there in recent years.
Baraka who is assuming his new office effective 2026, is starting work at a time when no minister would volunteer to take it over after death of their colleagues, a situation that compelled the Bishop of Mukono Diocese Rt. Rev. Enos Kitto Kagodo to assign archdeacons to the place in a rotating manner, interchanging them on a monthly basis.
The first to die was Paul Lubega, who was serving as a parish priest before elevation of the place to an archdeaconry.
On its elevation, Can. Jesse Ssendege was assigned to work in the place as a pioneer archdeacon but, as nature would have it, he perished in a motor accident at Naminya village along Kayunga-Njeru Road.
Can. Ssendege tragically passed away in a road accident on the night of Sunday, January 23, 2022. He was riding a motorcycle when he was struck and killed by a speeding Kenya-bound bus at a police checkpoint, as both he and the bus driver attempted to maneuver through the block.
He was replaced by Rev. David Ssekimpi who was later transferred in what is considered a ‘normal transfer’, to be replaced by Can. Lubega Mesach in 2024, who succumbed under natural death. Lubega died on January 18, 2025, at the Bbaale Health Centre III, only three months after his posting.
Unofficially, ministers started looking at Bbaale as the place of death but, because it could not be left unattended to, the bishop directed that all Archdeacons take up its ministry in the monthly rotating manner.
Announcing his assignment as caretaker Archdeacon during the Sunday 30th November 2025 service at Sts. Philip and Andrew’s Cathedral Mukono, Can Baraka who is slated to retire from ministerial work after an uninterrupted service 45 years from a lay reader to higher offices up to the province, said he takes his assignment as a calling from God, and added that he relies on God to offer him the protection he has always provided.
He is outrightly opposed to the idea of calling Bbaale Archdeaconry as the ‘place of death’, noting that death is a natural phenomenon that will strike anytime and anywhere once God decides it is the time to take his people.
“I keep asking people, who has never been affected by death in their various places? But did they first go to Bbaale? I am ready to go and serve and continue turning over souls as I have been doing, to honourably retire, and at the right time according to my creator’s programme, to go and join Him,” Baraka determinedly noted.
Baraka is currently the Executive Director of the Uganda Chapter of the US-Based Words of Hope Ministries, the Director for Missions Outreach Uganda and a televangelism pastor since 2020. He has been an evangelist, preacher and pastor for over 40 years.
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