Bishop McRae draws Kenyan orphans with his harmonica

Evangelist George Calvas giving candy to orphans

 

Preaching to Malakisi orphans and Street Children

           In that same spot, the preachers would be stoned by Muslims the very next year, baptizing the work in blood. From that stoning would highlight the bravery of one young Ugandan, who stood fast with his white brothers, when two other African ministers ran away. That young Ugandan would obtain God’s favor at the risk of his own safety, as he charged forward to try and stop the Muslims from throwing their stones. The Muslims would tear his Bible to pieces throwing it at Brother McRae. The next projectile would be a baseball size rock that would strike Brother Charles Gould of New Hampshire, and seriously open a deep cut above his left eye. Howbeit, that single act of selfless courage by the tall young African, with wire rimmed glasses would set him aside before God Almighty, as the National Bishop of Uganda.  

                              

Bishop Rashid Arinoli of Uganda
Preaching in the market of Bungoma, Kenya

        The Anabaptists Churches of Africa were officially established in December of 2007 with the formation of the Continental Presbytery ordained and seated at Malakisi on December 10^th, 2007. That beginning occurred after the white preachers from America introduced open air preaching to the native ministers gathered in Malakisi in December 2006, which fervent calling from God took to the African preachers in such a way, that one would have thought they were born street preachers. However, Bishop McRae refused to allow the SPF to control the churches, insisting rather, and Biblically, that the churches must control the SPF in Africa just as in America. In order to do that, Bishop McRae drew up a preliminary Articles of Faith for the Anabaptists churches in Africa, and in a meeting that lasted until the third watch of the night, presented the document to the African ministers from three different countries and advised them to take them back to their villages and study them all this next year. Instructing them to review them thoroughly, and decide by the following year, if they could follow them, in a sacrificial devotion to Jesus Christ, that would lead to a momentous undertaking for all of Africa, but which might cost them much as the years neared the second coming of Christ. With the Articles of Faith, the white ministers presented each of the African preachers a wide margin, large print King of Jacobs Bible, to read and study all this next year. By the following year, the African ministers had not only accepted the Articles of Faith, but were already instituting many of the things found therein throughout the village churches in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the DR Congo. Present at the 2007 meeting, were over two hundred ministers and their families, anxiously praying the Lord would select able men amongst them for the seating of Continental Presbytery, to oversee the establishment of the Anabaptists Churches of Africa. From those ministers, and through much labor and conflicts, God set aside National Bishops over Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and with three Bishops from America, the Anabaptists Presbytery of Africa was seated at Malakisi, Kenya. The Continental Presbytery of the Anabaptists Churches of Africa presently consists of the following Bishops of the Anabaptists Churches.

• Bishop Muliro Kulu Adolphe, National Bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with headquarters out of Goma, DR Congo.
• Bishop Rashid Arinoli, National Bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of Uganda, with headquarters out of Busia, Uganda.
• Bishop Alphonce Lutakakwa, National Bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of Tanzania, headquartered on the southern shores of Lake Victoria at Biharamulo, Tanzania.
• Bishop Constant Makoka, National Bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of Kenya, with headquarters out of Kitale, Kenya.
• Bishop Marvin Holmes, Statewide Bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of New York.
• Bishop Charles Gould, Statewide Bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of New Hampshire.
• Bishop Stephen McRae, Statewide Bishop of the Anabaptists Churches of Pennsylvania.

    The Continental Bishop of North America sits as the Presiding Bishop of the African Presbytery until such time as a Continental Bishop of Africa is ordained and the African Presbytery is strong enough to support itself. As a testament to the power, fellowship and unity of the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus, God has bound all of these men together as one as never before seen in the history of the New Testament Church, where the actual principles of the Presbyterian self governing ministry are carried forth, not just in word, but in deed and truth.

Bishop Muliro Kulu Adolphe of the Congo
Preaching in the Marketplace at Bungoma, Kenya

Bishop Constant Makoka of Kenya
Preaching in the market place of Malakisi

The Young “Timothy” Bishop Stephen McRae of Pennsylvania
Gathering a Crowd in the Marketplaces of Kenya

Bishop Marvin Holmes “The Elder”
Praying with a Street Orphan of Bungoma
A world away from New York

The Bishop of Tanzania
Alphonce Lutakakwa Preaching to a Crowd of 400

New Hampshire Bishop Gould
With “the marks” of the Malakisi Stoning

 “From henceforth let no man trouble me:
for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”

                                                                                               -Galatians 6:17

                                                                 Ugandan Bishop Arinoli
                            With an Undaunting Task before him… “The Care of the Churches”
                                           In The Killing Fields of the Martyrs of Uganda 
  

              The Presbytery along with Bishop McRae are already working with  preachers in the Ivory Coasts, Nigeria and Ethiopia, with Brother Kweli Shuhubia from Kenya having just returned from a preaching tour in the Sudan. The preachers from North America will again tour the African churches this next December, preaching in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Anabaptists Churches of Africa are established upon the Antioch principle of the churches sending their own into the world (Acts 13:1-8), in obedience to the command of Jesus Christ to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15). The beginning of the Church Age Story started with the Church at Antioch, whose members were white, black and brown, bound together in work of love to send their own into the world (Acts 13:1-8), and God helping us, it is going to end the same way. In so doing, the saints of Africa, as Anabaptists of old, go out and “preach every where” (Mark 16:20). 

           
                          Bishop McRae Preaching in the Open Air Market
                                      With Brother Daniel the Translator

         The first three days of the African venture of the Anabaptists Church of North America were spent in a constant ministration of teaching, preaching and baptizing converts in Malakisi River flowing toward Eastern Uganda. Lord’s day services were held in the open market area of Malakisi with Brother George Calvas preaching his first message in Africa, a long way from the Design Screens of Detroit’s Ford Motor Company.

                                 
           Kenyanese Christians gather around Bishop McRae
                      On the banks of the Malakisi River

                                 
                       Bishops Holmes and McRae baptizing
                      African converts in the Malakisi River 

                                 
Anabaptist Evangelist Calvas Preaching in Malakisi

 
            The Anabaptists ministries throughout Africa focus upon the Biblical perspective where “Simeon that was called Niger” (Acts 13:1) is one with “Paul the aged” (Philemon 1:9) and “Phillip the evangelist” (Acts 21:8), “where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all” (Colossians 3:11). The typical white missionary will not venture outside the large cities and capitals of the African nations, nor do they venture into the jungles, bush country and thousands of unprotected villages and mountain regions where disease is routine, orphans sleep in the bush and jungles and abject poverty is a normal way of existence in mud huts and grass roofs, with the most modern toilet being a hole in the ground inside a banana leaf lean-to.

             In the Great Rift Valley of Africa, along the mountainous border regions of Kenya and Uganda, the Anabaptists constantly meet elderly natives in the 70’s who have never seen a white man’s face. They have been told stories that he will come some day, and the children run ahead of the Bible toting white preachers making their way through the bush, scampering down the countless mountainous foot paths crying out, “Mzungu bwana!”

                            
                                                    The Anabaptists Enter Another Village

                             
                                                      The Bush Country of Western Uganda
                                                        The White Man-“Mzungu Bwana” 


                            

A Kenyan Orphan Living in the Bush
Discovers the White Preachers along jungle path

                                                               An Eight Year Old Orphan
                                                Caring for another Orphan in the Bush

                            
                                        Evangelists Bruce Perrault and Brother McRae


                            
                                                An Orphan’s First Look at a White Man

                           
                                            “To visit the fatherless…in their affliction.”
                                                                                                     -James 1:27


                               
                      “Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, 
                                 Known and read of all men.” 
                                                                            -2 Corinthians 3:2


                                
Tribal Circumcisers First Look at a White Man

             Africa has always remained a land of Divine opportunity for the minister with the courage and love of Christ to preach where others would never venture. The hardships are beyond the character of the average American minister that has never worked a single day in his miserable life. The sacrifices are a daily opportunity to grow closer to God, and to the people you preach to, with dirt floors, mud huts, God and nature daily demonstrating to you about the humility and character of the Hamitic people through the “great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abound[s] unto the riches of their liberality” (2 Corinthians 8:2), teaching you daily this great principle of God, that “in Christ  there is neither Jew nor Gentile”, white or black “for ye are all one in Christ” (Galatians 3:28). The Christians of America, white and black refuse to understand this very principle, which was the building blocks upon the very foundation of Christ in the Antioch Church (Acts 13:1). With the racial divide of the United States and the present day presidential race, much has been said of the “black church experience” in America versus the “white church experience”, and neither one is Biblical, nor can work alongside the other. Much of it is the refusal of both white and black Christians to maintain the unity of the body of Christ while maintaining the boundaries of the races beyond it. 
  

“There were in the church that was
At Antioch certain prophets and teachers;
As Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger”.
                                              -Acts 13:1

             It is not a doctrine or a principal that Christianity today, in America or any European country wishes to admit or acknowledge, that a Nigerian helped ordain the Apostle Paul. But the Bible is very clear from the beginning of the Antioch principle of church governance, that the very church where “the disciples were called Christians first” (Acts 11:26) should embrace a multi racial presbytery and congregation, to prove from the Holy Scriptures, that though they maintained “the boundaries of their habitations” (Acts 17:26), in Christ they were all one (Galatians 3:28). They worshipped as one and ministered as one (Acts 13:1-7); they prayed as one (Acts 13:3); they were imprisoned as one (Hebrews 13:3/ 2 Timothy 1:16); and they could die as one (2 Corinthians 7:3). One of the Apostle Paul’s ordaining elders was black. They called him “Niger” (Acts 13:1), from which comes the words Nigerian, Niger, Negro, Neger and the infamous American word “nigger”. The word simply means “black”. It wasn’t the preacher’s name. His name was Simeon, but he was called “ Niger”. They called him that. His Christian brothers called him that. God called him that (vs. 1), and wrote it down in the everlasting word of God. The word means “black”, like in the Latin “ Niger” (pronounced "Neger" with a short e sound) and Spanish “negro”. In America the blacks and the whites use such terminology to divide. In the Bible and in the church of the Living God they used it to unite as one body in Christ Jesus. The church at Antioch had no racial prejudices, nor ecclesiastical boundaries though they maintained habitational boundaries (Acts 17:16), and adhered to the Biblical prohibition against mixing of the races, since the Bible calls such sin "fornication" (see Revelation 2:14/ c.f. Numbers 25:1/ 31:16). Howbeit, the early church at Antioch, where the disciples were first called Christians (Acts 11:26), they ministered and worshipped God as one in Christ (Galatians 3:28). They were brothers. They were friends and companions and fellow soldiers  (Philippians 2:25). Fellow ministers, were they who became the “master builders” (1 Corinthians 3:10) of the New Testament “building of God” (1 Corinthians 3:9/ 2 Corinthians 5:1) on a presbyterian principle of “one body in Christ” (Romans12:5) that can “go into all the world and preach” (Mark 16:15) and also abound to the “edifying of itself in love” (Ephesians 4:16). The Jews and white Gentiles were not above the black Christians, whom they called "Niger" with a capital 'N'. That name was a crown, a title of glory, and a mark of distinction that highlighted the Biblical fact that one of the elders of the very first "Christian" New Testament Church was a Nigerian named Simeon. And God said unto that black elder at Antioch, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them" (vs. 2). And verse three highlights for all eternity, that the ordaining Elder of the greatest Christian that ever lived was a black preacher from Antioch.  

            To maintain such Biblical mandates and to prove this spiritual union in Christ as one body, and with the entire trip of 2007 centered around founding the Anabaptists churches in accordance to that same New Testament principle, the Americans commandeered Brother Charles Mukamba’s bus, and transported all of the African ministers into the closest major town to set them to preaching in the open air, to examine their “gifts and calling of God” (Romans 11:29). Traveling to Bungoma, the white men began preaching in the center of the market area, and soon the Africans would demonstrate, that they were “in nothing…behind the very chiefest” of white preachers (2 Corinthians 12:11). Said Bishop McRae concerning the young Kenyan evangelists Simon Cheminingua, “That young man can out preach this old grey haired white man on a moment’s notice! I may be able to out teach him and out read him, but he has me beat hands down on preaching!”


                                    
Kenyan Evangelist Simon Cheminingwa

   The Call to Preach the Words of God is the same in every
    man, regardless of the color of his skin or where he lives!


                                                                                    
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, 
   and shew my people their transgressions!" 
                                                                -Isaiah 58:1

             The fires of Open Air Evangelism are now burning in the hearts of the African Anabaptists, where they are mighty in demonstrating that the Preaching of Repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ in any language is always unmistakable!

The day following the Anabaptists open air meeting in Bungoma, Bishop Gould called for another evangelistic open air meeting in the market of Malakisi. Howbeit, no one showed up but Christian ministers. With no lost people present, it became apparent that evangelizing the lost was not on God’s schedule for that day. There was continually growing an atmosphere amongst certain of the African ministers, an air of pride and superiority above their fellow Africans that could be seen on some few of their countenances, their heady attitudes, and their three piece suits amongst the poorest of African ministers. And then there was Simon, the young Kenyan evangelists. That young preacher stood at the back of the congregation, clutching his Bible in his hand, with his index finger stuck between the pages, marking a text that was burning in his heart. As his Brother Gould finished speaking, and followed by another African evangelists Jesse Mustafu, the atmosphere began to change. As Jesse preached, and everyone’s attention was straight forward upon Brother Mustafu, young Simon’s eyes were locked upon Brother McRae, with a smile and a countenance that declared with an “open face beholding” (2 Corinthians 3:18) that the young African had a message from God.

            Seeing the brightness of his countenance, Brother McRae motioned for Simon to come near, which the young man did like a rabbit, still clutching his Bible at the ready. Said Bishop McRae, “when Jesse finishes, you go preach what God has given you, and don’t compromise with any of these rascals!” And did that young man ever preach! Taking his text from Isaiah 56:10, the young evangelists cried in Swahili, “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.” And within ten minutes, most of the congregation were on their face in the dirt, except those “greedy dogs” to whom the word was sent. It was unmistakable! The young evangelists, with a heart after God, had flushed the trouble makers into the center ring. And though they knelt for show, they were not humbled, as the remaining members of the congregation fell on their faces before God. You could spot their arrogant countenances in the very midst of the deepest of African “godly sorrow” (2 Corinthians 7:10).

“These are spots in your feasts of charity,
when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear:
clouds they are without water, carried about of winds;
trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots.” 
                                                                            -Jude 12

“You are not going to heaven because you are a bishop!”
                                                                    -Simon the Evangelist



Simon Cheminingwa Leading the Mourners

“And they fell upon their faces.”

                                                                                            -Numbers 16:45   

As Evangelist Simon falls upon his face as Brother Isaac exhorts!

 
“The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself,
God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.”
                                                                           -Luke 18:11

                               
Simon the Evangelist, Crying Alone!

 “Oh that my head were waters,
And mine eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night for the
Slain of the daughter of my people!”
                                              -Jeremiah 9:1

           Though Anabaptists ministers could sense the trouble brewing, and the entire trip was immersed in a spiritual warfare from the very start, little did they know of the trouble  brewing, and the evil hearts of those “princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown” (Numbers 16:2/ Genesis 6:4) that always sought to take over every church, and spiritual work of God throughout the history of Christ’s church. Every major apostate denomination, and every dead orthodox, fundamental independent Baptists fellowship in America was taken over the very same way. While they profess to be the bride of Christ, they live like a wanton widow, “dead while she liveth” (1 Timothy 5:6). Said Bishop McRae, “God deliver us from so great a death from the start. We did not come all the way to Africa to start here what we are forsaking over there!” 

             Thirty years had gone into the creation of the Anabaptists Articles of Faith, to finalize 2,000 years of church history’s lessons of the New Testament acts of the Holy Spirit in the lives of God’s martyrs, who for the life of the church, refused to be silent in public about the Lord Jesus Christ. Those Articles had been written “with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever” (Job 19:24) through years in “the furnace of affliction” (Isaiah 48:10) in teaching God’s “witnesses” (Acts 1:8/ Isaiah 43:10-13) that the Lord is not interested in having anymore churches just like the one’s He already has. Neither can you reform the apostasy running rampant throughout the known ecclesiastical religions commonly known as Christianity today, of which the Bible calls Laodicea! But in Africa, though the American influence is there, and the “sect of the Pharisees that believed” (Acts 15:5) are there, the riches are not (Revelation 3:14-17). And one of the foundational principles of God’s grace by which we draw nigh unto the throne of God is going “through his poverty” (2 Corinthians 8:9). Africa knows this as a daily walk with or without God, that keeps ever present before them the hope of the poor (Job 5:16) and needy. Laodicean Christianity is “in need of nothing” (Revelation 3:17), and can be taught even less.

            Howbeit, with the poverty of Africa is a child like calm, and trust that witnesses every day an unseen hand from God, guiding the personal affairs of His children, that instills in those who desire to “follow on to know the Lord” (Hosea 6:3), that God is still able to “exhort and convince the gainsayers” (Titus 1:9). By Monday, December 10^th, the Presbytery from America were convinced of the selections for Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the first Anabaptists ordination service was held. In announcing the selections for the National Bishops of those countries a solemnity came over the congregation like was never seen before, as Brother McRae announced the selections for the National Bishops. The selections from God for Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were highly anticipated by the congregation and all of the minsiters. Howbeit, the younger selections for Kenya and Uganda were clearly unexpected, and the two young men chosen were without words as the soberness and shock of the moment came upon them. Nevertheless, the saints with one accord began to rejoice, clap their hands and sing unto God for the consolation…except for certain after the order of “Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them” (3 John 9).

Brother Muliro Kulu Adolphe
Is chosen as the National Bishop of The Democratic Republic of the Congo

As anticipated the congregation applauds as
Brother Alphonce Lutakakwa is announced as National Bishop of Tanzania

And suddenly there is a quiet somberness about the congregation as
Brother Rashid Arinoli is chosen as National Bishop of Uganda!

Brother Constant Makokha [rear center]
Soberly reacts as Bishop McRae announces him as God's choice for the Bishop of Kenya

Then it is radiatly clear that God had made choices amongst them,
as the Congregation sings unto rejoicing!

                                   Brother McRae preaches the charge to the new candidates. 
                                                "I charge thee therefore, before God,
                        and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
                                                at his appearing and his kingdom;
                                                        PREACH THE WORD!" 
                                                                                     -2 Timothy 4:1, 2
 

Muliro Kulu Adolphe is ordained
The Bishop of the Congo

                  Alphonce Lutakakwa of Tanzania ordained
              “by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery”. 
                                                                               -1 Timothy 4:14

                                 
Bishop Rashid Arinoli of Uganda

Bishop Constant Makokha of Kenya

Following the Ordination, Bishop McRae
Prays with the Children’s Choir from Tanzania as they
Prepare to return home on a five day’s journey.

          
        Following the setting of the African Presbytery, in a demonstration of the unity of the body of Christ, the African bishops in turn, then examined and ordained three of the American evangelists in the Anabaptists tradition of Acts 13:1-6. 

  
Bishop McRae introduces the three American Evangelists to the
newly seated African Presbytery
Stephen McRae, George Calvas and James McDonald



The African Presbytery Examining Stephen McRae



"We never saw it on this fashion."
-Mark 2:12



The father watches the son ordained in the Heart of Africa



"And they chose Stephen,
a man full of faith and the Holy Ghost."
-Acts 6:5



The Greek Evangelist George Calvas
Though "the Greeks seek after wisdom" (1 Cor. 1:22)
This one can also humor his African Brothers



Ugandan Bishop Rashid examines James McDonald



The Bishop of the DR Congo Muliro Adolphe
Delivers the Charge to his white brothers


            Throughout Anabaptists history, there has always been a work of the Holy Spirit of God in small men, and in small places that set down the foundational elements of “the principles of the doctrine of Christ” (Hebrews 6:1) that lead to “perfection” (vs. 1/ Philippians 3:12-16) in the knowledge and love and ministration of Jesus Christ, that have been recorded for all eternity as miles stones in the “witness of Jesus” (Revelation 20:4). In 1525, three young men chose to stand alone against both Protestant and Catholic reforms of apostasy in Zürich, for which they all three bore witness with their blood that “God was in Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:19) even as they “were baptized into Jesus Christ” (Romans 6:3). On September 5, 1524 Felix Manz, Conrad Grebel and George Blaurock were just saved young men with a love of Christ burning in the hearts that formed a courage to stand alone against insurmountable adversity in establishing the New Testament principles of a presbyterian self government of the body of Christ in a complete rejection of all other ecclesiastical traditions of popery, Lutheranism and Protestantism. They would sign their names and shortly sacrifice their liberty, and in three short years would give their lives for the sake of the truth of Christ. Little men, with little names in little places, but with great grace and courage from God, the events of whose lives now stand as monuments to the redemptive power of God in the lives of those who dare be called Anabaptists. Their boldness and witness in the public domain marked them to all the world, men and angels “that they had been with Jesus” (Acts 4:13). The Malakisi revival and the establishment of a continental church Presbytery of Anabaptists churches in four major African countries will stand forever in the annals of Anabaptists history for the sure boldness of the endeavor; to think that six white Anabaptists open air preachers would dare to venture in the Great Rift Valley, and presume to think and pray that Africans would receive them. But the reception was as marvelous as it was difficult. And though a great door and effectual was opened, 24 hours would demonstrate that “there were many adversaries” as well (1 Corinthians 16:9).


"Barnabas and Simeon."
-Acts 13:1
Preaching in the street at Malakisi


            Time will tell the matter, and history will hold the affects and impact of the Malakisi meeting upon Anabaptism in both America and Africa in its truest since. But just as with any great movement of God in the hearts of “the common people” (Mark 12:37), and as in every major revival and movement of the Holy Ghost, “there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed” (Acts 15:5) that “think of themselves more highly than they ought to think” (Romans 12:3). Following the African ordination, it did not take long, before Diotrephes introduced himself to the congregation as the chief speaker of the children of Belial who “knew not the Lord” (1 Samuel 2:12), but he knew enough to know they were not going to have these men over them (1 Samuel 10:27/ Luke 19:14). The night before, just hours after everyone was rejoicing over God’s choice amongst the congregation for the National bishops, Diotrephes rose up and “laid many and grievous complaints against” two of the Bishops “which they could not prove” (Acts 25:7), and “the victory that day was turned into mourning” (2 Samuel 19:2). The night was spent in prayer, which by the third hour of the next day, the African Presbytery had resolved any issues, and had determined to press forward. In explaining the consolation to the congregation, Diotrephes again rose up to murmur even more about Bishop McRae’s hired translator and that Bishop Rashid was not a member of the majority tribe. But little had to be said from the elder, for while the young man Stephen waited for the answer of his father, the newly ordained Bishop of Pennsylvania thinking “Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom” (Job 32:7, 8), “his spirit was stirred in him” (Acts 17:16). And the elders took the back seat, as the young preacher stood to speak, and within 24 hours of his ordination, that young made “full proof of his ministry” (2 Timothy 4:5) and demonstrated why he was named of God after the first two martyrs of the Book of Acts. There are men that are full time in some church ministry fifty years, that go their entire miserable life never able to prove that they could ever actually get up and preach and minister “the spirit of the New Testament” (2 Corinthians 3:6-9). But the hundred African ministers with the American counter parts witnessed the power of a prayed up life fired with the Holy Ghost to a right tempered two edged sword that in that bamboo brush arbor cut both directions; and cut quick. Taking his text from Numbers 16:1-40, Stephen, ordained the first Anabaptists bishop of Pennsylvania pointed his carpenter’s finger right at the rebels and “lifting up his voice as a trumpet” (Isaiah 58:1) cried aloud, “This is nothing more than Korah, Dathan and Abiram all over again, rising up in the congregation to over throw the will of God”. And before he could say another sentence, the rebel Wamato jumped and fled the tabernacle, jumping on his scooter to flee, as the young Pennsylvanian rebuked him sharply.

"Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry!"
-Stephen McRae (1 Samuel 15:23)



"For the divisions of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart."
- Judges 5:16



In just 2 short days, the youngest African and the youngest
American proved that they could preach to you and pray
for you and cry for you in a moments notice!



The Ugandan Ministers
"Being convicted by their own conscience." -John 8:9



"God is not impressed, and neither is the preacher with what tribe
you are from!  Do you see this young man's face from Uganda?
  It's not the same color as mine!  But the two are one in 
Christ Jesus,  and they are going to stay that way
with or without the rest of you in Uganda!"
-Bishop McRae



All the ministers of Kenya, the Congo and Tanzania
come forward to stand with Bishop Rashid of Uganda
The line is drawn in the dirt of the Malakisi tabernacle
and Brother McRae declares as Moses of old,
"Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come unto me."
-Exodus 32:26



And if there were ever a troubled bunch of
Ugandan ministers, there they sat!



"This young man is God's choice as the Anabaptists
Bishop of Uganda. If you choose not to follow him, you
will never see my face in your church again."
-Bishop McRae



The Ugandan Patriarch, Elder Peter Wakweya
Contemplating the will of God



"Yes! I will follow him!"
-Peter Wakweya



"We have a long way to walk together for all of Uganda!"
-Brother McRae



"And they rejoiced for the consolation!"
-Acts 15:31



"Mzungu Askofu"
Bwana Mwana Madaha!