Enlarging the Place of Our Tent
Greetings TTC Partners!
Rejoice with us! After nine months of sowing and dozens of visits, God is expanding the TTC Disciple-Makers Movement (DMM) into Kampala, Uganda! Praise the Lord!
Kampala is the capital of Uganda, a land-locked country to the west of Kenya. Uganda is a poor country, with over 40% of the population subsisting on less than $2.00 per day. But thankfully, through the efforts of one man, many are no longer starving for the Word of God!
In 2023, a young man named Collins was living with his family in western Kenya, just across the border from Uganda. He and his wife run a small store (the size of an average bedroom closet in the U.S.) selling convenience items.
Collins joined the DM movement, and after being trained, began coaching DM groups. He led one DM group that his pastor attended, and now his pastor is coaching two DM groups as well.
In early March 2026, Collins was asked to take over two fledgling DM groups in Kampala, 6.5 hours away. The odds of success were not good. The prior DM coach had collected money from the group members for their Pressing Toward the Mark (PTM) discipleship workbooks and money from the Kenya DM Movement leaders for travel expenses and had run away with it. By the time Collins showed up, the groups had not met for eight weeks, and although few of the church members could read or speak English, the PTM workbook had not been translated into the local dialect, Luganda.
Collins was undaunted.
He began traveling those 6.5 hours to Kampala by bus every Tuesday morning, arriving in time to coach one DM group at 5 PM, followed by a second DM group at 7 PM, and eventually a third DM group at 9 PM. Then, after sleeping on the couch in a local pastor’s house, he returned 6.5 hours home by bus.
Collins’ hard work and persistence is paying off! After 15 weeks of coaching and 210 hours of bus travel back and forth, six of his Ugandan disciples have now launched their own groups! And one of those disciples has translated PTM Volume 1 into the Luganda language, which reads like this…
… and has begun translation work on PTM Volume 2!
In about six months, our team from Kenya plans to travel to Kampala to hold vision-casting meetings to introduce the DM process to more Ugandan pastors and leaders.
Would you help us fund the translation of our discipleship materials into Luganda, pay our Kenya team’s travel expenses, and help us bless Collins’ family for all the time he has invested to reach these precious Ugandan people? (For online giving, click here, and select fund “Uganda Outreach,” or mail a check to Take the Challenge, 8053 US Hwy 160, Walnut Shade, MO 65771 with “Uganda Outreach” on the memo line.)
We deeply appreciate your prayers and support! Thank you in advance for helping us help others like Collins “take the challenge” of making Jesus’ last command their first priority.
Blessings,
Scott and Patty Roberts and the Growing Take the Challenge Team