"Ministering love in a hurting world"

About Us

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We are a non-denominational, Christ-centered church located in Ntungamo Municipality. The Church honors the Holy Bible as the Word of God to man, accepts that salvation is found only through faith in Jesus Christ, welcomes the infilling, guidance and leadership of the Holy Spirit, cherishes the freedom to unceremoniously worship and praise God, shuns the bondage of unscriptural religious restraint, and embrace the Kingdom of God as our culture. The Church exists primarily to serve the needs of the community of Ntungamo; and then the ends of the earth. The community is comprised of Banyankole tribe as the majority; the migrant Bakiga from Kabale district and Banya-Rwanda from the Republic of Rwanda respectively.

Our History

Lift Up Jesus Church - Ntungamo was established by Pr. Roberts and his wife Sarah in the year 2010. God ministered to him to move from Kabale and pioneer a new work in Ntungamo community (a virgin ground), having served in ministry for over a decade with Lift Up Jesus Church in Kabale. In Ntungamo, we have been engaged in various evangelistic and community transformations activities. We are dedicated to loving God, loving people and impacting our community. We are driven by passion that creating a lasting impact on the community demands us to go beyond the church pulpit and minister love to the hurting.

Pastor Roberts had been formally involved in ministry service with Lift Up Jesus Church in Kabale as part of the pastoral staff; working under a ministry registered and recognized by the government of Uganda as a non governmental organization. Major areas of ministry he had been involved with include: Organizing Annual Revival Conferences; Prayer, Youth (students); and strategic community transformation programs like Hope Africa Children Ministries (a project rehabilitating formally street children, orphans, HIV/AIDS infected children, and abandoned babies) through provision of holistic services like education (through Canaan schools – Nursery, Primary, and secondary), provision of shelter, food, healthcare, among other social issues. He had also been part of the work team for Love Your Neighbor ministry; a community-care ministry transforming lives of the very poor, lame, maimed, aged, and other disadvantaged groups.

Vision: Our vision is to lift up the name of our Lord Jesus Christ through preaching the gospel and engaging in community transformation activities.

Mission: Our Mission is to preach the gospel, helping the poor and needy; training and developing Christian leaders.

Purpose: Our purpose is to bring the lost to Jesus Christ and to build up and encourage those who are already believers. We desireto glorify Christ by reaching our community and to love, nurture and teach one another to imitate the heart of Jesus!

Our Beliefs

The Lord Jesus Christ: We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ as the only begotten Son of God. We believe in His substitutionary death for all men, His resurrection, and His eventual return to judge the world.

Salvation: We believe all men are born with a sinful nature and that the work of the Cross was to redeem man from the power of sin. We believe that this salvation is available to all who will receive it.

The Holy Spirit: We believe in the existence of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity and in His interaction with man. We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as manifested by the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit.

The Sacred Scripture: We believe in the scripture as the inspired Word of God and that it is the complete revelation of God's will for mankind. We believe in the absolute authority of the scripture to govern the affairs of men.

The Church: We believe in the Church as the eternal and universal Body of Christ consisting of all those who have accepted the work of the atonement. We believe in the need for a local assembly of believers for the purpose of evangelism and edification.

Prayer and Praise: We believe in the worship of the Lord through singing, clapping, and the lifting of hands. We believe in the authority of the believer to ask freely of the Lord for his needs.

Evangelism: We believe that evangelism is the obligation of every follower of Jesus Christ. The Lord commands us to go out and make disciples of all nations.

Water Baptism: We believe in the ordinance of water baptism by immersion in obedience to the Word of God. All those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior should be baptized in water as a public profession of their faith in Christ.

What We Do

Bridge Of Hope Community Engagement

When it comes to fighting poverty and engaging in community transformation, no single organization on earth can offer the scope, the mandate, or the power for dealing with these complex issues effectively. But we believe the local church is the hope of the world. It is the only sustainable, morally grounded, and mobilized organization in these poverty-stricken communities that can offer long-term sustainability. By working with communities and local leaders, our passion is to help implement long-term change. Our strategy for fighting poverty, HIV/AIDS, child sexual abuse and injustice is by committing to the holistic transformation of our community .

During His ministry, Jesus reached out to people in all dimensions of their lives—physical, social, economic, and spiritual. Bridge of Hope community engagement seeks to do likewise. In Ntungamo district, we are on the front lines in the battle against poverty and HIV/AIDS. To address the issues surrounding the greatest pandemic of our time, we come alongside the local leadership in order to bring hope and healing to our community. Our desire is to provide diverse services, including care for those fighting HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention awareness and training, care for orphans and vulnerable children, micro-enterprise efforts, food security, shelter, education, clean water, and church development.

Why we focus on HIV/AIDS

Leaders all over the world have called the global HIV/AIDS pandemic “the greatest humanitarian crisis in history.” Worldwide, the faces of HIV/AIDS are nearly 60% women and children. Of the 40 million people infected with HIV/AIDS, 25 million of them live in sub-Saharan Africa—including more than 14 million AIDS orphans. In Africa, AIDS is wiping out entire income-producing generations. When parents, teachers, nurses, carpenters, and farmers die of AIDS, the economic infrastructure of a community collapses. A generation of destitute AIDS orphans is left unsupervised—at best, being cared for by aging, ailing grandparents; at worst, turned out onto the streets. The percentage of child-headed households in Africa is increasing at an alarming rate, leaving young teens responsible for raising their siblings. Bridge of Hope chooses to focus on HIV/AIDS crisis and poverty because the sheer level of devastation they cause is unprecedented in human history!

Youth Action Against AIDS (YAAA)

Youth Action Against AIDS is a Community Based Organization (CBO) registered with the Directorate of Community-Based Services, Ntungamo District Local Government under Reg. No. 224. The organization is under the oversight of Lift Up Jesus Church – Ntungamo. It was established in order to improve knowledge on HIV/AIDS and promote positive behavioral change; to promote access to relevant and age-appropriate HIV prevention services; and to equip young people with life-skills that reduce their vulnerability to HIV infection among other areas. The CBO is non-sectarian in service delivery and works with young people irrespective of their religious affiliation.

Our vision: The vision of YAAA is to raise a young and healthy, God-fearing generation free from HIV/AIDS.

Our mission: Our mission is to contribute to the prevention of HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections (STD/Is), teenage pregnancies, and faith sharing among young people aged 14-25 years through schools and community-based education campaigns.

Thousands of students and out-of-school youth are most vulnerable to HIV infection in our communities due to entrenched poverty, unemployment, lack of education and ignorance, neglect of girls due to cultural beliefs (many parents do not understand the need for the education of the girl-child), domestic violence, and gender inequality. Many children and adolescents have been orphaned by AIDS and are now heads of households and above all without proper knowledge to protect themselves from the infection. In most rural communities of Ntungamo district, less than half of the youth can correctly identify modes of HIV transmission. Youth Action Against AIDS aims to help young people to participate in community and national decision making and also promote grassroots action in the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS. By working with young people in communities, and students in schools in Ntungamo District, we help to disseminate knowledge for healthy living.

Children Of Promise

Vision: Our vision is to transform the lives of children and help them realize their full potential.

Mission: Our mission is to provide holistic support to orphans and other vulnerable children in Ntungamo district.

Children are often the unseen victims of persecution. Every year, children are orphaned or left with scarcely enough provisions to survive when their fathers and mothers die because of HIV and AIDS. Some children live in communities and homes where they are forced to live as second and third class citizens because they are orphaned. Many of those orphaned children are discriminated against and are often subjected to hard domestic labor by their caregivers. Because of unending mistreatment, children begin to feel rejected and ignored by those who would have loved them and provided them a shoulder to lean on. It is this unbearable condition that among other factors cause many children to join street life, child labor and teenage marriages in search for freedom for survival. We seek to respond to these community problems primarily by praying for the community, the children and families. Often as we visit families during our outreach programs, we come face to face with the reality of suffering that many children are facing that makes them more vulnerable such as poor health, lack of access to education due to absolute poverty, violence, and hard domestic labor.

We therefore, focus on promoting early intervention and prevention efforts; develop specific programs targeted at vulnerable families to mitigate the negative influences that create opportunities for vulnerability to occur; address social-cultural norms that predispose vulnerability; andinitiating livelihood opportunities for families for at-risk children, among other areas.

Whereas primary and secondary education in Uganda is free in government schools, many families cannot afford to provide scholastic materials such as uniforms, books, etc in addition to the mandatory cost-sharing fees charged by schools. The rate of child drop-out from schools is also high because many of the issues affecting children are not addressed. The burden of these poor children is very big and we cannot independently meet their basic needs. In all our effort and contribution to the lives of children, our target is to bring them to Jesus Christ. We also strongly believe that the education of these poor children is the most effective way to reverse the cycle of poverty in their families and the community. Your involvement and support for this worthy cause is very welcome!