Ngara Mission Area

Ngara mission area is formed by two main parishes Ngara Mjini and Njia Panda. These two parishes comprises a total of twelve congregations and one outreach service point in the refugee camp. Ngara Mjini consists of eight and Njiapanda of four congregations.

School children dancing. (Photo: Frieder Ackermann)Boys and girls are dancing at Ngara
Missionary work in Ngara started in 1990 when Ngara Christians decided to separate from the Anglican Church. Until now, quite a significant progress has been made so far both spiritually and bodily. For instance in 1991, there were only 50 church members led by the evangelist Emmanuel Rwoto. They requested for spiritual service to Karagwe, then the evangelist Marco Buchwechwe was sent there and after six months, Rev. Jackson Kanyiginya came there for ministering them. At 1st January 1992, a special service inaugurating Ngara Mission was led by Bishop Paul Mkuta of the Karagwe Diocese. Eighteen years later there are up to 2.095 members in Ngara Mission. The number of congregations has increased from three in 1991 to twelve currently.

Ngara Mission has two parishes namely Ngara Mjini led by Rev. Stewart Karugaba and Njiapanda led by Rev. Jesse Mutelani. These parishes are then sub divided into a total of twelve congregations.

Personnel:
    2 Pastors
    11 Evangelists
    3 Sunday school Teachers
    1 Aids Control Project (ACP) worker


Activities

Bishop Benson Bagonza at 31. July 2008. (Photo: Frieder Ackermann)
  • Maintaining people spiritually by sermon and services
  • Construction of permanent churches, extension of service to new areas within the district i.e Kabanga congregation,
  • Diaconic services to the orphans, old, disables and the needy,
  • Environmental conservation by tree planting,
  • Capacity building and empowerment by seminars and school fees payment to the needy,
  • Training the evangelists and kindergarten schools teachers,
  • New life in Karagwe Diocese taken place in our area we received 20 cattle,
  • Friendship among congregations started, each Ngara congregation is attached to Gladenbach Germany parishes as a friends.

Here you can download the
Data Base Ngara Mission
Information on members and prospects 2009 Karagwe Diocese – Data Base Ngara Mission
.


Partnership

Karibu! You are welcome! (Photo: (Frieder Ackermann)
Since 1993 there Ngara Mission has a partnership with the Deanery of Gladenbach (Protestant Church of Hesse and Nassau). The partnership website contains all information on our connection.The key areas are the mutual visits and a variety of projects. The partners have created different funds according to the running projects.

Ngara Mission Area is part of the New Life Project. For further information about the agricultural development project, please click here.

Contact

Further information through District/Mission Pastor Rev.Stewart Karugaba cellphone +255 786 490 800



Text: Uzima B. Tirumanywa