The History of Kyengera Victory Christian Life Church

Before coming to Kyengera, David Mukasa had already been in ministry for a number of years. God called him when he was 17 years old. From that point, he began evangelism, moving from town to town and village to village. He saw hundreds of people come to Jesus Christ through that work. Between the ages of 18 and 19, he began opening churches in different places and getting other pastors to pastor those churches.

In 1997, God called him specifically to Kyengera town. When he arrived, he found great resistance from the Muslim and Catholic communities in the area.

David Mukasa began by renting a piece of land from a certain woman. He paid six months of rent in advance. On that land, he put up a temporary bamboo structure, which served as the church. In those early days, he was in the church alone until five people became members.

When the church grew from five to ten members, the Muslim community decided to act. They paid the landlady a larger amount of money, which she used to replace the temporary church structure with a new house on the same land. David Mukasa and his members were pushed out.

They moved to another place, where they spent a week before being evicted again. They then went to another location, constructed another temporary structure, and continued. After four months in that place, the church broke up and only ten members remained.

The Catholic community also rose against them at that time. It was at that point, by David Mukasa's account, that God gave them their own piece of land.

With their own land secured, the ministry began to grow. Many people came to Jesus Christ, and this enabled the ministry to hold crusades and conferences. The ministry acquired land in the heart of Kyengera town. The first plot of land acquired was described as too small, but the ministry was in the process of acquiring another piece of land neighbouring them.

The church started with eight people in July 1997. Its stated objective from the beginning was delivering lives from the hold of the enemy, which was evidenced through a lot of witchcraft in that area.

The International Ministry.

In 2004, David Mukasa received a vision to begin an international ministry. Over 1,500 pastors joined this ministry. The ministry held a revival conference in which they hosted many pastors and ministers. They held two pastor conferences annually, which gave many ministers an opportunity to serve the Lord.

David Mukasa travelled internationally as part of this work. 

The photo above mention ministry trips to Indiana in the USA, a crusade in Warsaw in July 2008, and a conference in London, England in November 2008. He also ministered in Manchester. The files mention that God placed ministers in his life from Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the USA, and across Africa.

The vision of Kyengera Victory Christian Life Ministries, is to develop a fully functional ministry that reaches the local community, including Muslims, and beyond, by serving the needs of the community and training and equipping believers in service to Jesus Christ.

The mission of Kyengera Victory Christian Life Church is to care for, nurture, and uplift multicultural families in the knowledge and application of the Word of God, and to reach orphanages, prisons, and widows.

The practical mission work includes equipping pastors with the Word of God, holding revival meetings in bush churches, constructing churches, providing Bibles, and providing primary medical care to communities where churches are planted.

The ministry had one orphanage located at Seeta, Mubende District, with 200 children. There were also plans to build a primary and secondary school at Kintuntu sub-county, Mpigi District, because most schools in that area were built by Muslims, which had been difficult for some of the Christian children.

For widows, the ministry had a mission of providing income generating projects such as piggery and cattle rearing. The ministry also lists needs such as musical instruments and a PA system, and trucks and buses for evangelism.

The ministry states clearly believes in the following. We believe the Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God. We believed in one God existing in three persons  God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, his virgin birth, his sinless life, his miracles, his atoning death, his bodily resurrection, his ascension, and his future return.

We believe the only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the blood of Christ. We believe in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, which indwells the Christian and enables him or her to live an overcoming life. We believe in water baptism as a symbol of identification with Christ.

We believe in restoration of the whole person through the power of the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ.

The music ministry of the Kyengera Victory Christian Life Church was built around the belief that praise and worship brings you to the altar of God, and that it is not about the culture, style, or having a good voice, but about pleasing God. 

Prayer.

The ministry placed strong emphasis on prayer. They taught from 2 Chronicles 7:14 and from the book of Joshua. We describe Christians as joint heirs of Jesus Christ with the authority to uproot the works of the enemy and establish the kingdom of God. We reference Mark 11:23, teaching that Christians speak to mountains rather than merely talking about them.

In its own words, the ministry describes itself as a networking ministry that opens up its arms to the body of Christ. It describes its beginning as coming in a refreshing anointing, with people committed to being not just Christians but consumed by the power of the Holy Spirit, with no other agenda but Jesus Christ as the foundation and the rock.