DELIVERANCE CHURCH UGANDA

By Titus Oundo - Chairman Leadership Team:
“We are Marching into our Inheritance”

by Rebecca Rugyendo and Wilson Balenzi

The smartly dressed waitress at the restaurant at Shoprite-Lugogo makes her way to our table. Pastor Oundo reads nametag and lights up to her, “Hello Martha, are you saved?” I am staring straight at her to see her reaction. She jerks a little; stares back at him and says “Yes. I pray from St. Augustine.” Before she can finish the sentence, the jolly pastor looks at her coolly with a smile and says, “Jesus loves you. You need to get born again.” It suddenly hit me that, to Pastor Titus Oundo preaching is as natural a thing as breathing. He doesn’t need a pulpit. He preaches the gospel anywhere!  It is his lifestyle. As the interview commences, I am sure we are going to have a great time discovering where all this “evangelistic approach to life” came from. With a reflective, contemplative aura, Pastor Titus divulges:  

“Deliverance Church was birthed through a vision in 1967. We were boys in secondary school. Nicholas Wafula got saved in 1965 when he was in S5. Stephen Mungo’ma and I got saved in 1966. I was in S.2 while Stephen was in S.6. Ben Oluka got saved in 1968 and came in much later. We were young Christians, doing what we were doing by the grace of God. When Joe Kayo came to our school in 1967, he told us of the dry ground of Uganda, and how the rain poured on it and it sprouted. He then said he felt there was going to be a revival, and that it was going to begin with us.”

Joe Kayo did do his part, and after prophesying thus, went back to Kenya in 1974. There were no bazungu missionaries to help set up the church. It was the doing of the Holy Spirit. We sprouted from the ground like mushrooms (beams Titus), we did not come from above like hailstorms.”

Forty years later, the energetic boys have matured to become the pastors, evangelists, managers, lecturers, professors and directors that they are now. They have worked hard and made the money that explains the existence of the vehicles that grace the parking lots of Deliverance Churches on Sunday mornings. Those are blessings from God to His people. They have been taught the principles of working to earn so that they can be able to give in appreciation to the God who said, “I am the one that gives power to make wealth.”