26 December 2025

Cees and Mirjam Molenaar serve in Kotido, Uganda, to engage the Karimojong people for Christ. At a recent training session of 78 leaders in rural church fellowships, it was discovered that only six could read and write. The six readers automatically became group leaders for the Bible reading assignment, reading the Bible passage aloud three times and then discussing the question provided. People in an oral culture are good at listening and remembering, and some have even memorised the section! When the training had finished, the leaders asked, “Teacher, we are really hungry. God is calling us to teach His Word to the children, and we have learned how, but what are we to teach them if we don’t have His Word and can’t read it?” Matayo is one of the six who can read. His Bible is used for his seven satellite congregations, which means that once every seven weeks, the Bible is opened in one of those churches. The other Sundays are filled with singing, praying, and sharing testimonies. Cees’ Ugandan fellow trainers were shocked: “So God had to bring you all the way from the Netherlands to show us that there is so much spiritual need in our own country. Suddenly, I understand the great commission: it says GO! We didn’t know that there were still such unreached areas in our country.” Pray for the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into these fields.

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