Ugandan Christians come out en masse to pray and sing for Israel
Thousands of Christians across Uganda have been singing, marching, waving Israeli flags and praying for Israel as part of different programs supported by various Christian groups, which include Christians for Israel and Intercessors for Uganda.
“If a sleeping Giant don’t wake by himself, the Lord will wake him up,” wrote Pastor Drake Kanaabo on Facebook. “Someone shout Hallelujah!!!”
Kanaabo, according to his website, has ministered in more over 51 nations around the world. Currently, he is serving the Redeemed of the Lord Evangelistic Church Makerere in Kampala, Uganda, having been there since 1982. He was instrumental in planning the recent pro-Israel events.
So far, activities have included an Israel-Uganda prayer walk on Friday, January 24, in Mbarara and a “Prophetic Connection Conference” the next day, also in Mbarara. This week, a second walk will take place on Tuesday and a second conference on Wednesday. Both of those events will be held in Masaka.
“How much faith do you have in God?” asked Kanaabo in a separate Facebook post. “Is all things possible? is God of Israel your God?”
Daniel Yehuda, an Israeli musician who hosts mass singing events for Jews and Christians, was in Uganda last year for similar events and brought with him 11 suitcases of Israeli flags. He described a sea of thousands of people “getting together and praying for us.”
“It is amazing... People getting together to bless Israel.”
Dean Bye, head of the Canada-based Return Ministries, also helped support the program. He is currently in Uganda and spoke to The Jerusalem Post via WhatsApp.
“The past one-and-a-half years, we have been doing our part encouraging the Uganda Christian Church to stand with Israel in many ways,” Bye wrote. “They are responding with eagerness in great numbers. They are identifying with Isaiah 18:1-7 as a ‘smooth-skinned people, living in a land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,’ called to bring their wealth to Israel.
“Many came to learn, pray and sing and participate in blessing Israel,” he said.
Bye became involved in outreach to Africa after reading the “prophetic words” of Isaiah 18: “Woe to the land of whirring wings along the rivers of Cush...Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smoothskinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers...”
In a video, Bye explains he has been heading to Uganda to help the people who live along the Nile “understand their calling and purpose,” – to return to God and support Israel.
Return Ministries encourages Jews and Christians to work together to fulfill what it believes are God’s plans and purposes for Israel and the nations.