ADVANCE #3022533 - BUHONGA CHURCH BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
The church in its mission to propagate the gospel conducted several crusades and door to door evangelism throughout the years and won souls to Jesus thus making the membership at Buhonga church to grow from 70 in 1965 to over 2,000 to date. The church is now small and cannot accommodate all the members. The Buhonga local church membership and community initiatives are now greatly constrained, the church having outgrown our current gathering facility. Some members of the church are forced to worship while standing outside the church building. During the rainy season the situation is worse as it disrupts the divine service and impedes hearing as those standing outside will run and squeeze inside to avoid the rain.Also children who always worship outside the church are the most affected during both the rainy and dry seasons as they are forced to shift from one place to another to avoid the scorching sun and the rain. In addition, people who are saved from the crusades and evangelism are moving away to other churches seeking for the church where they can have sits, hence church stagnation in terms of numerical growth. Lack of a church building restrains the church ministers from serving many born again souls effectively and efficiently, a survey reveals that many people failed to come to church because of lack of building. The church does not have children’s rooms even though. To support the goal of achieving a regular attendance of 2,500 youth, kids and adults each week and further growth beyond this, it is clear that redevelopment of this site will be necessary to accommodate the congregations and associated ministries. Due to this problem the church members have embarked on a new church construction project with a seating capacity of 2,500 with conference rooms and administrative office.