I am Silvester Lubwama, ❷❶ years old, living in Uganda, and this is a summary of my story.
I spent my first years of life in the village with my grandmother. It's where I took my first steps, and spoke my first words. At the age of five I met my mother for the first time that I could remember. She took me home, where she was working as a school nurse, and I started life, a new life with her and my two sisters.
Two years later my father died. I had never known him. Finances were running thin when my mother heard about a childcare ministry where she could become a mother to a house of 8 children while bringing two of her own along with her. Being a boy, 11, I was left at a boarding school as my mother and sisters pursued that calling. I ran away from boarding school time after time, trying to find my mother, desperate to hear her sweet words, and feel her love and care for me. One time I walked 84 miles to find her on a heart wrenching journey of 2 weeks; spending nights curled under street tables, on church benches, in stranger homes, and even in a police stations.
I was finally permitted to stay with my mother in her home. I couldn't have been happier.
At the age of 15, my mother died. I was left alone, angry, and running away from everything I believed in. For three years I ran away from the God who was calling my name. Finally, I turned my ear to Him and He captured my heart fully and with so much love it took my breath away. He gave me hopes and dreams for the future that I had never had before. And my greatest desire is to serve Him with all my life because I can never repay Him for the sweet mercy and grace He gave to me. My life is full of new hope and purpose.
Today God has loudly called me to serve at a single mothers care ministry here in my own country Uganda, the ministry is called Uniquely Woven and I am learning new things every day at Uniquely Woven and I have been starting to realize why everything that has happened in my life, from smallest to biggest, has had to happen.
In order to fulfill this calling on my life, I need people to commit to support me financially and in prayer as a missionary as I give all my time to this ministry. Check out the website to see what I do at Uniquely Woven. Your committed support will help pay for my rent, food, transport and health miscellaneous as I commit all my time to Uniquely Woven.
I spent my first years of life in the village with my grandmother. It's where I took my first steps, and spoke my first words. At the age of five I met my mother for the first time that I could remember. She took me home, where she was working as a school nurse, and I started life, a new life with her and my two sisters.
Two years later my father died. I had never known him. Finances were running thin when my mother heard about a childcare ministry where she could become a mother to a house of 8 children while bringing two of her own along with her. Being a boy, 11, I was left at a boarding school as my mother and sisters pursued that calling. I ran away from boarding school time after time, trying to find my mother, desperate to hear her sweet words, and feel her love and care for me. One time I walked 84 miles to find her on a heart wrenching journey of 2 weeks; spending nights curled under street tables, on church benches, in stranger homes, and even in a police stations.
I was finally permitted to stay with my mother in her home. I couldn't have been happier.
At the age of 15, my mother died. I was left alone, angry, and running away from everything I believed in. For three years I ran away from the God who was calling my name. Finally, I turned my ear to Him and He captured my heart fully and with so much love it took my breath away. He gave me hopes and dreams for the future that I had never had before. And my greatest desire is to serve Him with all my life because I can never repay Him for the sweet mercy and grace He gave to me. My life is full of new hope and purpose.
Today God has loudly called me to serve at a single mothers care ministry here in my own country Uganda, the ministry is called Uniquely Woven and I am learning new things every day at Uniquely Woven and I have been starting to realize why everything that has happened in my life, from smallest to biggest, has had to happen.
In order to fulfill this calling on my life, I need people to commit to support me financially and in prayer as a missionary as I give all my time to this ministry. Check out the website to see what I do at Uniquely Woven. Your committed support will help pay for my rent, food, transport and health miscellaneous as I commit all my time to Uniquely Woven.