Mukono Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Mike Ssegawa has called on born-again leaders to always make self-appraisals, and in effect make appropriate adjustments for their evangelization mission to be successful.
Ssegawa predicted that unless preachers critically analyse their performance and make due changes to cover up gaps, they may fail to realise benefits out of their spiritual building mission.
He was on Thursday addressing Greater Mukono born-again leaders who gathered at Mukono Mt. Lebanon Church for a one-day retreat organized by their umbrella body, Love, Peace and Unity Pastors’ Destiny Forum.
The RDC urged preachers to go out of their way and engage government officials handling poverty reduction interventions, with a view to initiate processes of making a difference in the lifestyles of their followers.
“Government has put up many poverty reduction interventions at various levels; but as leaders, have you done enough to tap these arrangements for the benefit of your flocks?”, Ssegawa inquired.
The head of State House Investors Protection Unit Col. Edith Nakalema was represented as chief guest by the Administrator at the State House Investment Protection Unit Steven Kaheru who expressed recognition for the born again church’s support to the president’s anti-poverty drive.
Kaheru was sad to note that 38 percent of Ugandans survive on subsistence production with no surplus to take to the market to earn an income. “But food is not the sole domestic need; we need money for transport,medical care, education and other requirements, so believers must be organized to join government programmes like emyooga, PDM and others”, he noted.
Kaheru observed that when every household in the country engages in some form of income generating activity, the country will be on track in the transition to a money economy as prescribed by President Yoweri Museveni.
In an earlier address, the head of the mobilization department in the President ‘s Office Capt. Dan Barigye called on church leaders to engage in physical exercises to avoid health problems like obesity, which he said are likely to deter their work.
He observed that rural church leaders are in a privileged position because he noted, they engage in exercises like digging and walking, compared to their urban counterparts who almost fully engage in church work all day long.
Capt. Barigye appealed to them to desist from eating simply to kill hunger, but start eating to avoid getting hungry, saying that this is possible when one gets into planned nutrition especially when one gets into advanced age.
Toavoid preaching without influencing people, he asked church leaders to teach their followers to look at gaining win-win situations in all engagements.
“If you preach without making an impact among your flock, you are as good as just taking a walk”, he said.
