SECOND MILER - CAROLINE MUSAGALA

"Mama Africa" - Spreading the Revelation Amid Conflict and Strife

“The new revelation will help create awareness for these people and give them hope amidst the troubles and chaos in Congo.”

As Pastor Caroline Musagala reached Goma in December of 2021, she recalls that the city on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo was rife with “violence and live bullets."

Caroline was in Goma on a mission to hold a Urantia Book conference for women, partly funded by the Second Miler Grant Program. But the challenges she faced, as documented in her report on the project, were monumental.

Congo is the scene of one of the world’s longest-running conflicts. Decades of fighting have resulted in six million deaths and more than six million people displaced in a humanitarian crisis that has engulfed the country’s eastern region. Whole communities of women and young girls have been left without husbands and fathers. 

A few years ago Caroline, a women’s leader and counselor, formed a women’s corps - the African Urantia Women Disciple-Making Movement - whose members provide one another with both financial and spiritual support.

Caroline has become known as “Mama Africa” because of her determination to travel to women in need through the continent, even when her health is poor and she is weak.

Delivering the Full Gospel of Jesus

The movement's mission is to reach out to people, especially women, with the full gospel of Jesus from the Urantia Book revelation. They establish study groups while providing social and economic services, and training the women to be productive in society.

Many of those they help are victims of rape, now raising fatherless children and lacking basic needs like water, food, clothing and education. 

The church in which she is a leader, the Siloam Altar Revival Ministries International, had started "compassion ministries", which help build good relationships with the women of different families. 

"We have been able to distribute food and mosquito nets to the needy especially during the lockdown period. As a result, many households have opened up to The Urantia Book," Caroline says.

People in Congo live a fear-filled life, she adds. “Therefore there is a need for more spiritual awareness to raise their morale, hope and strength, and for them to listen to the good news.

“The new revelation will help create awareness for these people and give them hope amidst the troubles and chaos in Congo.”

Revelation in a Dangerous Environment

It was in this dangerous and strife-torn environment that Caroline was trying to spread the new revelation in Goma at the end of 2021 with the help of Second Miler funds.

On the way there she and the women who accompanied her faced several challenges. They had to do two Covid tests and pay more than expected for transport over the Christmas period. They experienced transport delays and as a result had to go over budget on accommodation. 

But that was the least of it. She describes a scene of shooting and panic on their arrival in the city. And then Caroline fell ill to a severe disease which made it difficult for her to perform her duties. 

On the day of the conference, unexpected heavy rainfall soaked many women and their children who could not be accommodated in the conference venue. There were problems encountered in translating English into Swahili and French, as well as too few Urantia Books to go around.

Yet, the conference bore fruit: 25 Urantia reader groups were formed and five leaders were identified who could read English and help the rest understand the revelation. 

One of the leaders of the women’s corps gifted them a house for their Urantia Book office – “a miracle worth celebrating,” says Caroline. She was the principal of a big theological school who testifies to the goodness and beauty of The Urantia Book and who believes it will help all students in their spiritual lives.

As many students of the book around the world attempt to disseminate its teachings, they would do well to look to Caroline Musagala’s heroic example of making progress in the face of tremendous odds.

The Urantia Book Fellowship would like to thank supporters of the Second Miler Grant Program for helping make possible Caroline Musagala's project and all the other projects the program has funded since 2020.

This was a women's three day conference in Kaliro. We were expecting 50 or 60 but around 100 showed up over the three days.

We meet with Pastor Mutaasa Lastone, he is a long time UB reader but has never been communicating his activities due to having no smartphone and so this time round we had to take to him a smartphone to ease his work for the revelation! And he is so happy and excited now.

The above person is called Pastor Norah Akirabaine, one of our Pastors in Uganda and currently helps Caroline as a secretary during field work, she requested for a Urantia book and she is enjoying it.

She is employed by the government of Uganda working in the Education sector as a Municipality Education officer heading the education sector in Kamuli district (Municipality)

We are blessed to have such people on board now for women corps!!

The woman above in the picture is one of the students of the Urantia Book and among the women she is called Justine.

She is married and currently she has been not employed and she has her first class degree in Business . Now she will be settling down to read the UB and vowed to spread the good news to other parts of the world.

We will be putting the questions asked at the meeting in our Groups Questions Menu. Please if you are a long time revelation student consider answering some of these questions. 

ALL PHOTOS OF THIS EVENT ARE HERE

OUR REPORT FOR THIS EVENT WILL BE POSTED HERE

REPORT FOR MISSION TRIP TO IBANDA, FORTPORTRAL AND HOIMA- WESTERN UGANDA

SPONSOR: Members of urantia fellowship         

Date: From 14^th to 17^th/sep/2021.

Objective of the trip:      

• Distribute the urantia books to the new UB women readers
• Introduce the urantia book to the new women readers
• Training on how to read and understand the UB easily
• Training on how to form UB women’s groups

• Achievements:
• 12 women [ disciple makers attended from 3 different areas

Women leaders very excited to know about the new revelations

• 13 were  books distributed to the women disciple makers[ new UB readers]

• Introduction to part four of the Urantia book was covered-the life and teachings of Jesus

Some of the women who received the Urantia books

• 13   women groups are expected to form from the 13 Urantia book women readers that were given books.          .                  

• 13 UB women readers made their “I will statement” that we will follow after one month on  phone

Challenges:

• Long distances that was under estimated according to the budget.

      Departure from Ibanda to fortportal- western Uganda

• Women expected to be given  transport refund which was not budgeted for.
• Language barrier that hindered many women from reading and understanding the new revelations.
• Resistance from religious leaders.
• Many other areas demanded for the Urantia books and were not enough.
• Some women from some areas where we last reached didn’t have lunch due to under budgeting like fort portal [tourism city]

Way forward/ Recommendations:

• Follow up will be made after one week and after two months we need to go and make training.

• We need to provide lunch and transport for the UB women readers whenever they come for the training.
• The Urantia book needs to be translated in different local languages for many women to be able to read it and understand it properly.
• The Urantia book needs to be printed from Uganda so as to have them in big numbers to meet the demand.
• We still need to go and organize meetings with the religious leaders that they may know more about the urantia book so that the book will be widely accepted.
• Volunteers [ women disciple makers] who compile weekly and monthly reports needs to be paid some allowance in order to motivate them.
• Low attendance due to lack of transport
• In future we will also need a monthly pay for the coordinators who go on monitoring the UB women readers in their groups weekly.

Romans 10:15, And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As its written: “How beautiful are feet of those who bring good news!”