New Life Bible College – Why Indigenous?

Favor of God’s New Life Bible College began with the strong conviction that God wants to raise up leaders in every country and community. Many people in northern Uganda have never heard of the name of Jesus and  still do not know His saving power. They don’t know hope, and they are in bondage to what their surroundings offer them – despair, witch doctors, fear, anger, and poverty.

Who should reach out to these people? Who is the most powerful witness when preaching to a people who have suffered so greatly? Obviously, God can use anyone and anything. He can use someone from 5,000 miles away or he can use a tree or rock to declare his message. But, we also believe that God wants to use the Ugandan people to reach their own people.

They speak the same language, for the most part. The people being reached have no prejudice, good or bad, because of a different country origin or a different color of skin. They share the same history. They have a collective understanding of  fears, anger, and hindrances to forgiveness. Ugandan Christians have personal stories of deliverance and present hope and joy that are powerful among their people!

New Life Bible College began in 2005 and since has sent out hundreds of leaders believing that northern Uganda can be changed by the power of the gospel. And we continue on as we have seen that transformation occurring and have a steadfast hope for more.