KPC Gulu a.k.a. KPC Project Gulu

For anybody wherever they are, as long as they have been following news about Uganda for any section of the past 20 years, Gulu is not a new name. Well, I need to be fair to those who could have missed it. Gulu is one of the towns in Northern Uganda whose residents have suffered greatly both in the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) led by Generals Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti and due to the effects of the war between LRA and the Uganda government forces.

Thank God for the current peace talks taking place in Juba and the ceasefire thereof. On this occasion, I will not comment directly on the talks or whatever is happening with it except to wish it the much needed outcome of total piece in the northern part of Uganda. I keep my hope alive for this.

I am interested in a local church’s (Kampala Pentecostal Church - KPC) involvement in bringing the healing of hearts and the love of Christ to the people of Gulu through what it calls 'project Gulu'. On the 5th day of August 2007, KPC Gulu will be launched in a celebration in the city of Gulu and I believe it will be graced by a cross section of the community, the local leaders in Gulu and probably some high-placed government officials. I pray I make it to Gulu again after over 27 years.

I was last in Gulu as a little boy. Besides looking forward to revisiting a town I have a beautiful child’s memory of (one of the memories is that of the air force planes doing beautiful manoeuvres over the city during training / rehearsal sessions), I would very much love to be part of the ceremony that ushers in yet another body that has already been proven to deliver hope to the community. I believe with the whole of my heart that before long, the significant contributions of KPC Gulu towards lifting up the hearts of a good proportion of the affected people of Gulu through meeting their spiritual and physical needs will become obvious to the open-minded and objective assessors both local and foreign. This is yet another contribution (by locals and foreign partners) that I will follow with great interest (for its good intentions and anticipated contributions) and hence will write quite a bit about in this space. Watch it.