WSM Western Uganda Mission Report - March 2012

WSM Western Uganda Mission Report

Progress Report from World Shine Ministries

World Shine Ministries Progress Report January 2012

Update on Jonathan Jabez Omega's operation

Beloved. Jabez Jonathan Omega is now in the theatre undergoing a 6 hour brain surgery right now here in Lebonheur children's Hospital in Memphis USA. Kindly keep him in prayer all day, all doctors and for quick recovery. The message this morning was: Omega is very small but loved by a very big Dad. His impossibilities are His possibilities. Where he ends, He begins, When he run out, He takes over. Underneath Omega are His everlasting arms to hold him up, to raise him up, to catch him if he falls. He is holy because He ever lives to hold him like this, under, under, His love seeks the place of service; under, supporting, lifting up. He has destined Omega not for the dust but for unimaginable heights carried in His arms. All His purposes for him are GOOD. So keep praying for him through the 6 hour surgery.

Medad & Connie Birungi

Update on Friday, November 25, 2011 by World Shine Foundation

Thank you for all your support and prayers. Jonathan Jabez Omega had a very successful surgery and the tumour was completely removed. He is now talking and eating. Thank you for all your prayers and contributions. He will need 2-3 weeks for recovery and needs more prayers. Thank the church for their love. 

Father in heaven, to Whom the impossible becomes possible - the One Who is able to do abundantly above all that we are able to think of, talk of, pray for; according to the power that worketh within and among the believers; to You be all the glory, the honor, the majesty, the splendor and all the dominion forever and ever. For Jonathan's complicated but successful surgery: recovery and life - now and forever more - Amen! Amen! Amen!

Medad & Connie Birungi

Update on Saturday, November 26, 2011 by World Shine Foundation

Dear Friends, I thought you might like to see this article in a Memphis newspaper today about our little Omega Jabez Jonathan Birungi and our smiles after brain surgery! (Click on the link below.)

Photo by Alan Spearman

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/nov/25/a-large-helping-of-cheer/

With love,

Medad

Update on Monday, November 28, 2011 by World Shine Foundation

Omega Jabez Jonathan Birungi is recovering very fast. He can eat, drink and walk. He remembers well and his brain is functioning normally. He is doing physiotherapy and occupational therapy to recover the full use of his leg and arm which had been damaged by the brain tumor. The brain tumor was not cancerous and its removal did not affect the nerves for his brain is functioning well. He will recover in the next 2-3 weeks but we shall leave the hospital on Wednesday and keep bringing him for therapy in the hospital.

Kindly keep praying for complete restoration and recovery. Psalms 126. We are surrounded by very good Christian friends here and we thank God.

Medad

Update on Friday, December 2, 2011 by World Shine Foundation

Thank you for your prayers. Jabez Jonathan Omega Birungi is recovering rapidly after a 6 hour brain surgery in Lebonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He is now walking without big difficulty and plays using both legs. Yesterday he started lifting up his left arm properly which was very weak and for the first time since surgery last Wednesday, his hand has recovered and can hold things. What a miracle! Pray for his physiotherapy and occupational therapy going on and that he will be able to recover the use of his left eye, left leg and left arm normally. We are leaving the hospital on Friday and will go to an apartment from where we will be taking him for physiotherapy until 22 December when we are planning to go to Uganda. My USA cell phone until then is 18634094063. God bless you abundantly, exceedingly, more than you can think or imagine.

Medad and Connie

Update on Saturday, December 3, 2011 by World Shine Foundation

Thank you for prayers and encouragement. Jabez Omega Jonatha Birungi was discharged from Lebonheur Hospital today. We shall be living in an apartment until 22 December when we go home for Christmas. We shall be taking Jabez for Physiotherapy and occupational therapy until 22 December when a review will be done. Then we will be allowed to go home and complete the physiotherapy in Uganda but bring back the boy for a medical check up after three months. Dr Boop told us that within 6 months he will have recovered the use of all the parts of his body. His brain is functioning properly and we are happy. We are looking forward to having Christmas with the rest of the kids with Omega alive.

Medad & Connie

Urgent operation for Medad's son Jonathan Omega Jabez

We are actively raising funds for an emergency operation for Medad & Connie's  6 year old son Jonathan Omega Jabez who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour and is scheduled for an operation at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital on 12 November. We urgently need your donations to ensure this little boy gets this operation as soon as possible. A note and encouragement from Rev. Medad follows. 

Please donate at http://www.justgiving.com/Jane-Hutt

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Dear Comrades, as you heard my son was diagnosed with a brain tumor and he is going to be operated in London on 12 November and I desperately need your help as we still have a shortfall. I kindly appeal to you for financial assistance to save my son.

I have also pray for a breakthrough in your life. Comrade, are you thinking, 'If I don't get a breakthrough, I'm not going to make it?' Try to understand these two things.Micah 2:13. First, your problem is just an opportunity for God to work on your behalf. You are positioned to experience the truth of these words: '[The] One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their king will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.' By God's grace you can prevail over your circumstances. You can rise above discouragement and the self-defeating mentality that says 'Nothing's going to change for the better'. You say, 'But I tried and failed!' Fine, mark that off your list and say, 'Now I know what doesn't work.' Rejoice, God knows the way, and He's going before you! I am also speaking to myself too as I expect a breakthrough.

Second, before you experience a breakthrough there's usually a shake-up. Chuck Jaeger, the World War II hero who broke the sound barrier, fractured his ribs in a horse-riding accident the day before he hopped into the cockpit and attempted to do what had never been done with a plane before. His friends said, 'You're in too much pain. Don't do it.' His fears told him, 'Nobody's ever done it before. You won't either.' At 700 miles an hour the plane began to shake violently. Then suddenly he broke through into what he described as 'a great calm'. That's how it is when you're about to experience a breakthrough. When everything around you starts to shake and your fear level skyrockets, you're not about to crash and burn, you're on the threshold of a breakthrough!

Solidarity,

Rev. Dr. Medad Birungi

Update on Monday, November 14, 2011 by World Shine Foundation

EDIT: Due to problems getting Visas and funds for Jonathan to get into UK these plans were superceded by an offer of expert help from a hospital in Memphis, USA. Further details will be reported in later postings. 

Rev. Medad Birungi's life story - now published

We are delighted to annouce that Medad's extraordinary testimony and life story has now been put into print and is receiving rave reviews. Tombstones and Banana Trees is available to order online and from all major booksellers right now. 

Growing up with a violent father in the country of Uganda in the 1960s, Medad Birungi faced physical and emotional pain that few people can imagine–yet today he speaks of a revolutionary forgiveness we all can experience.

Once a boy who begged to die by the side of the road, once a teenager angry enough to kill, once a man broken and searching, today Medad is a testimony to God’s transforming power. Through his story of healing, Medad calls readers to find healing from their own emotional scars. As Medad’s remarkable journey shows, when people forgive each other, they are doing something truly radical. They are changing relationships, communities, countries. They are welcoming God into the corners of the human soul, where real revolution begins.