The Mbale Mission is committed to training, discipling, and equipping Ugandan church leaders for growing and strengthening the Kingdom of God. We work with more than 180 churches that have been established across Uganda over the past 30 YEARS. These churches are in need of further leadership development to grow deeper in faith and be able to disciple future leaders for Christ’s Church. We disciple leaders to become faithful followers of Jesus to become disciplemakers for Jesus. Our prayer is that these Ugandan leaders grow into self-sustaining churches, communities, and ministries sot hat the message of Jesus will continue to transform lives across this beautiful country.

We look at Disciplemaking in three ways: Head, Heart, and Hands. Jesus leads us to “transform our minds” and our ways of thinking. We do this by learning, discovering, exploring, wrestling with, and deep studying of God’s Word. As our minds are being transformed, the Spirit of God wants to transform our heart – our core values. It’s not enough to know ABOUT Jesus, but we are called to KNOW Jesus relationally and deeply, which changes who we are. Knowledge is important, but wisdom is applying that knowledge to every day decisions…we call this the Heart. But true transformation is seen in the fruit that comes from our lives. As God transforms our Head and Heart, we also know that how we live and treat others MUST be transformed. What we do with our “Hands” in our homes, churches, and communities matter to the Lord as a natural and impactful out-flowing of the spiritual growth in our lives. 

The Disciplemaking Journey
Over the past decade, we have formed and poured into multiple disciplemaking groups of church leaders. We meet regularly and often with these groups in order to build intentional relationships which allow for transformative discussions. The environment is completely relationally oriented, “Life-On-Life.” It’s not a class – it is very different. Instead, it resembles what some churches in the U.S. would call a small group, only with the intentional and specific purpose of making Biblical disciples. It is within this group that in-depth disciplemaking will take place. We work through material that has been written specifically to engage the head, heart, and hands of each person who is willing to grow deeper. 

The goal from the beginning has been to have Ugandan disciple-makers leading disciple-making groups in various areas around Uganda. We are seeing this fruit and are thankful to the Lord of the Harvest for his guidance and provision. This allows us to reach more leaders because we won’t be limited to our campus for training or the need to speak English, and we pray this will grow into a Ugandan-led disciple making movement. We have incorporated disciplemaking in our theological training school, Messiah Theological Institute, where students learn how to serve like Jesus with their hearts, minds, and hands.  

One thing we always share: Disciplemaking is for EVERYONE! Our focus is on making disciples of church leaders of all kinds, which includes men and women. We find that disciplemaking groups in this context function best with either men or women in the group instead of mixed groups. We have disciplemaking groups for women, focusing on women leaders in village churches. It is very exciting to see what God is doing in the lives of the women who have been discipled and are now disciplemakers in their homes, churches, and areas.