Pastor Joyce Ouko, President of Empower Uganda, and her husband Rev. Julius Ouko recently lead a training in Kasenge, Namawojjolo, Mukono District, Central Uganda. They were hosted by Pastor Dr. Grace Ntale and Apostle Monic Ntale, who also helped facilitate the training. Here is Joyce’s report, edited for space and clarity, on the successful training … Read more

Empower Uganda President Joyce Ouko recently traveled to a rather remote location to conduct a New Man, New Woman, New Life training. Her report, edited for length and clarity, follows. Last month, we conducted the first-ever training in the Namatale Buvuma Islands, located in Lake Victoria in Central Uganda. The training, hosted by Christ Nation … Read more

Empower Uganda President Pastor Joyce Ouko, along with her husband Rev. Julius Ouko, and Rev. Charles Opio, recently conducted a New Man, New Woman, New Life training at Intercessors’ International Church in Lugazi, a town in the Buikwe District of Central Uganda. Here is her report, edited for length and clarity. Greetings from the Ugandan … Read more

Empower Uganda President Pastor Joyce Ouko and her husband Rev. Julius Ouko, along with Pastor Kinyera Mike, recently facilitated an Empower training for 53 participants in Kampala Uganda. Joyce sent us the following report about this very effective training. Here is her report, edited for length and clarity. On behalf of EIM, Uganda, we would … Read more

Empower Uganda President Pr. Joyce Ouko and her husband Pr. Julius Ouko recently facilitated a New Man, New Woman, New Life training in Kiboga, a district in west central Uganda, in response to an invitation from pastors there. Here is her report. We cannot stop acknowledging your endless support and prayers towards the redemption of … Read more

A special note: We are dedicating the 2022 programs to the memory of Neill H. Nutter, father of David Nutter; and John and Joanne Emmons, parents of Sarah Nutter. David and Sarah are long-time Empower ministers and board members. Both Neill and John died during the pandemic, and Sarah’s mother Joanne passed away recently due … Read more

As we reported last week, July was a busy month for Empower Uganda. We ran a Master Class and New Man, New Woman, New Life class concurrently in neighboring towns in Eastern Uganda.  Joyce Ouko, President Empower Uganda, sends this report: We bless the name of the Almighty God for God’s enabling power to the … Read more

Empower Uganda President Joyce Ouko and her husband Pastor Julius Ouko, almost immediately after their recent trip to Karenga (read their compelling report about it here), went on to conduct a training in Tororo, in eastern Uganda, more than four hours journey from the Ouko’s home base in Kampala. Here is Joyce’s report from that … Read more

Thanks to your generous giving, the lives of pastors and their wives were transformed by our recent training in Uganda. We’re delighted to report that after months of restrictions due to the pandemic, we are slowly beginning to conduct in person trainings again. And these trainings are bearing much fruit! “God is using Empower to … Read more

We have exciting news, for those of you who have been following us for some time! One of the key values for Empower as an organization is, as our name declares, empowerment. We want not only to empower families to live with mutual respect and equality, we also want to empower local churches to teach … Read more

The recent sudden passing of Margaret Kiswiriri, President of Empower/Uganda, shocked and saddened all of us. Margaret suffered a stroke and passed away on December 1. (More details here.) The Empower Uganda team met recently to elect a new president to take her place on the board. Frank Michael Tweheyo, Africa Program Director, reported recently … Read more