How DC Started
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BY NICHOLAS WAFULA
“ As It Was in the Past, So Shall It Be Even Now”
Background
Nicholas Wafula was born in 1945 in a small village called Mukangu in Eastern Uganda. “Wafula”, means “rain” having been born during a heavy downpour, behind their small grass thatched hut that was shared by both the people and their livestock. He grew up in a dedicated religious home, having a devout father who taught his children the bible and the principles of prayer.
In 1956, Nicholas started pre-primary at Mawanga Sub-Grade School where his father worked. Here instead of paper and crayons, toddlers wrote in the dust, using sticks and fingers. By 1963, he had made it to Nabumali High School for Senior Secondary. In 1965, he got saved while attending a Scripture Union Conference in Kenya. By 1967 he was Head boy, begining his career as a leader.
Nicholas’ childhood ambition was to be a doctor. He was health prefect in junior school, in charge of the first aid box. In HSC, he studied physics, biology and mathematics. One day, the Scripture Union organised a trip to Mulago Medical School for those aspiring to do medicine. Then in medical school that they were taken to a room having numerous dead bodies that were being used as study samples for students. The room frightened and disgusted him. That is when he walked out on any medical ambitions.