DELIVERANCE CHURCH UGANDA

LABAN MWESIGWA JJUMBA
The Multitalented and Prophetic International Minister and Man behind the Prayer Movement
by Rebecca Rugyendo and Douglas Odoki

Laban Jjumba was born on the 1st of August, 1950 in Masaka-Uganda. He started school in 1957 at Kaboyo Primary School Masaka. After passing in grade 1 in Primary Leaving Examinations Laban joined Kako Junior Secondary School in 1963, where he completed the 2-year Junior Secondary course and passed in Grade 1 being one of the top students in the entire Masaka District.

In 1965 he joined King’s College Budo, and became part of the express stream that did O-levels in three years instead of four. While at Budo, in November 1965, Laban accepted Jesus into his life as his personal saviour.  In 1968 he joined the HSC course in King’s College Budo doing Double Maths (i.e. Pure Maths and Applied Maths), Physics at principal level, and Divinity at subsidiary level. In 1969 he completed HSC, obtaining three principal passes and the subsidiary pass in Divinity.

In 1970 he was admitted to Makerere University in the pioneer class of the BSc Engineering Faculty. As part of his training he worked with Ministry of Works in a country-wide traffic density roads surveys project, and also for some months with the Department of Agricultural Engineering at Kabanyoro University Farm as a Draughtsman. After completing only the first part of the Engineering course, in 1973 he resigned his Engineering career for Christian ministry. However, this should not make anyone think that Laban had any other motive to join the ministry other than the fact that it was the call of God upon his life. He also believes that all Christians are called. “I am not in Christian Ministry as a professional. Like Amos the prophet, I was a farmer of sycamore trees and then God called me into ministry. I believe that God has called every Christian to be a minister. We are all soul winners. When we begin classifying some people as professional soul winners and other believers as ordinary Christians, I think we are doing something that is not biblical. I believe that someone like Dr. James Magara who is a professional dentist is busier in the work of the ministry which he does alongside his work as a dentist than most pastors I know.”