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.

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Strategic Planning: Reaching out to the unreached people Groups with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through AUWDMM Process.         

AUWDMM  Vision

Making disciples of Jesus of all nations through AUWDMM process.

 Mission statement

The Mission is to reach out to unreached Women groups with the New Revelations about the teaching of Jesus Christ as a way of completing the Great Commission by establishing Discovery Urantia Book Study Groups, teaching the word of God and providing social and economic services and train the disciples to be productive in their society.

Preamble

The African Urantia Women Disciple Making Movement is committed to reaching out to unreached people groups more especially the Women with the full gospel of Jesus Christ with the New Revelations in the Urantia Book. Our main focus from 2021 to 2025 is the local unreached groups of people and the least evangelized groups in Different parts of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan.

Within the Unreached people groups, AUWDMM understands that Uganda has got a number of Women groups that need evangelism. And  it has been found out that the women are more committed in spreading the  New  Revelations about the Life  teachings of  Jesus Christ and so they need our motivation and training.

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Of all the daring things which Jesus did in connection with his earth career, the most amazing was his sudden announcement on the evening of January 16:

"On the morrow we will set apart twelve women for the ministering work of the kingdom."

These twelve women selected and commissioned by Jesus were:

1. Susanna, the daughter of the former chazan of the Nazareth synagogue;
2. Joanna, the wife of Chuza, the steward of Herod Antipas;
3. Elizabeth, the daughter of a wealthy Jew of Tiberias and Sepphoris;
4. Martha, the elder sister of Andrew and Peter;
5. Rachel, the sister-in-law of Jude, the Master's brother in the flesh;
6. Nasanta, the daughter of Elman, the Syrian physician;
7. Milcha, a cousin of the Apostle Thomas;
8. Ruth, the eldest daughter of Matthew Levi;
9. Celta, the daughter of a Roman centurion;
10. Agaman, a widow of Damascus.
11. Mary Magdalene
12. Rebecca, the daughter of Joseph of Arimathea.

AUWDMM  Vision

Making disciples of Jesus of all nations through AUWDMM process.

Mission statement

The Mission is to reach out to unreached Women groups with the New Revelations about the teaching of Jesus Christ as a way of completing the Great Commission by establishing Discovery Urantia Book Study Groups, teaching the word of God and providing social and economic services and train the disciples to be productive in their society.

Preamble

The African Urantia Women Disciple-Making Movement is committed to reaching out to unreached people groups more especially the Women with the full gospel of Jesus Christ with the New Revelations in the Urantia Book. Our main focus from 2021 to 2025 is the local unreached groups of people and the least evangelized groups in different parts of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Sudan.

Within the unreached people groups, AUWDMM understands that Uganda has got a number of women groups that need evangelism. it has been found out that the women are more committed in spreading the News Revelations about the Life teachings of  Jesus Christ and so they need our motivation and training.

REPORTS

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