Testimonials

When I visited with the team in Uganda, we met with a widow whose arm had been severely injured by a man she tried to stop from stealing the family’s only source of food. The man was allowing his goat to feed from her family garden; when she tried to stop him, he severed her arm with a machete. The widow was rushed to the hospital, leaving the woman’s 14-year old son alone to care for his four younger brothers and sisters. ICIC volunteers stepped in to help, bringing bags of grain to the family and watching out for them until the mother was healthy enough to return home. They also visited the woman in the hospital to pray with her and to assure her of her family’s safety. When we met, several months after her release from the hospital, the widow was more grateful to ICIC than her words could express; but her smile and tears said it all.

The only time I went to church was Sunday, but still very rarely. At the ICIC retreat I was seriously challenged when the preacher said that our real home and house is the house of God and we’re here on earth temporarily. He said those who practice staying in the House of the Lord on earth, will go to live with the Lord after here. The scripture Ps 84:2 “My soul yearns and faints for the courts of the Lord----” moved my heart and now I go to mass daily.

My children are very different since I started loving them differently. At ICIC parenting day we were asked if we loved our children and everyone said yes. We were taught to love more deeply and better. That’s when I learnt that I loved my children but never expressed my love to them. We were told that unexpressed love is lost love. I gave my children love names. I smile at them and caress them and give them gifts. I dismissed insulting from my language and tolerate their mistakes more than I did. My children are now happier and closer to me than ever before.

When we went to the ICIC couples conference, my wife and I had been living apart for two weeks. She'd become unbearable. At the conference we were taught “loving a spouse out of a bad habit”. We returned home together and I started the ‘Love therapy’. In about a month, my wife’s bad habit had decreased 70%. It’s not yet completely gone but I am extremely relieved and I believe with more love and tolerance we shall get there.

Though I don't like her, I love her. And from my choice to love, I've started developing a likeness towards her. Aloysius taught at one weekend that love is not only a feeling but God's law and a choice to obey that law. He enjoined us to decide to love the difficult-to-love people because if we don't love them we displease God and keep the blessing away from ourselves. I had not been talking to my half-sister for the bad things she said about me. My heart and mind resented her. From our weekend I returned home fully resolved to love her though I did not like her. Now we are talking and I feel like a heavy load taken off my heart.

I just didn't know how to relate with fellow teachers at the school where I teach. There were particularly three teachers who very often annoyed me. My style was always to pay back in the same currency. Overtime hostilities were escalating and workplace turned horrible. At our workplace seminar, I confided in one of facilitators about this matter. He told me the Lord wanted to heal the situation but I needed someone to work with. I offered myself for the Lord to work with. It started with me getting profound peace in my heart. A thought about those teachers doesn't hurt any more. A smile replaced a frown on my face every time I meet those teachers. They realized that I no longer return fire for fire. They stopped the malice. Now we're at peace.

I did not know the difference between the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit until your Pentecost Vigil radio preaching. From today I will strive for the fruits much more than the gifts because I have understood that real Christianity is bearing fruits of the Holy Spirit as laid out in Gal 5:22.

I'm so much in love with your evangelical radio teachings. They speak clearly and vividly to my life. I find them so helpful for my Christian living and particularly for my priestly life. I can never miss that radio program. Even in the shower room, I carry my small radio.

Alcohol was the Lord of my life. It was my morning and evening prayer. I was made to realize at a challenge weekend that I was enslaved and needed a Saviour. For forty days I stayed with a friend and he kept away from my home. He and his wife prayed with me thrice a day. I recovered from Alcoholism. I’ve been sober for three and a half months.

I thank God for ICIC. I have learnt to be happy even in difficult times. I used to be sad and depressed all the time and felt I was the most unfortunate creature. At the youth conference we were taught to count our blessings and see what God had done for us. I realised God is very close to me and cares for me. Now I know that problems will always be around but happiness is not the absence of problems but the presence of Jesus.

I have a very old father and a sick mother. We are eight siblings and our parents can't provide for us. Thank God ICIC feeds our family and is paying tuition for three of us. For me that's God showing us his love, because hunger would kill us if it were not for the love of God through ICIC.

God speaks to me every day and I feel strengthened every day. I did not know God speaks. I had heard several times that God speaks but never understood or experienced it. In February this year at an ICIC bible weekend. I was told to read my bible daily at the same time. I had a bible and read it seldom. I started reading the Bible with an open heart and mind ready to hear what God was saying. Now in every verse of the Bible, I find God’s message for me. I get daily encouragement and my life is worth living now.

All my time I shunned leadership. I preferred being led to leading. My mindset changed when we were read Isaiah 6 when God cried out as if in desperation, "Whom shall I send, who can go for us". From that leadership training I said Here I am, send me Lord. I am happy to go for the Lord.

ICIC taught me to pray. My only prayer was Sunday Mass. Now I have daily personal prayer too, where I hear God talking to me. I come out of personal prayer refreshed and recreated. I am glad I can meet God in personal prayer and in Mass.

I want to thank God for making it possible to have a life-changing ministry in Uganda. My life has never been the same after I joined ICIC sometime back. The way I was raising my children also changed for the better. It all started with me going to a Bible study weekend. I learnt to take God by His word. God is real to me and indeed He is in his word. Thank you very much friends for bringing Jesus into my life and my family

I glorify the Lord for bringing radio evangelization of ICIC ministry in Uganda. I discovered God through radio preaching. It's been so powerful and life changing for me. The preaching over the radio addressed my life situation. God became real to me. I was compelled to leave my friends who were misleading me. I am happy I decided so. I have new friends who build me now.

I had heard about ICIC for a long time preaching the love of God but I did not give it much attention. That love of God become real to me when ICIC loved me practically by saving me and my three children from starvation, they gave food. They said they did it because they love Jesus in us. I decided to love the Jesus of ICIC because he saved me and my children from starvation.

ICIC gave me a family, I don't have parents, blood brothers, sisters or cousins. I lived a lonely life. One day Aloysius invited me to a Challenge Weekend where I experienced the love of God. I was challenged to be the first to extend the love of God to other people. I have been doing that and it has given me a wide family. In one day I can have ten people calling on my phone

Through CIC we have learned how to forgive, how to love and care for others, how to be humble, how to seek God in prayer, and how to be human beings who can love those who are difficult to love. We have learned servant leadership. We have built a community of brothers and sisters

I am a teacher at Mitandi Secondary School. For me, workplace conflict had finished me. My problem was hitting back at every staff member who seemed to disturb me. When I attended Christ at workplace seminar at my school, I developed a different approach, the Christ approach to mistreatment at workplace. The situation changed. I applied patience calmness to my everyday interaction with people even my husband. This decreased the conflict in my life. I did not at that moment have money for the seminar but I was accepted to attend for free. I was told our friends in USA are supporting us.

I own a small coffee plantation. I learned from ICIC that my workers are human beings who need to be treated with dignity and care. I treat them much better now and they are happier and work harder.

We want to recognize that ICIC has brought peace and harmony in our homes and this has reduced the burden on Government in settling domestic violence. Through evangelization by ICIC, crime rate in our society has drastically reduced.

My name is Joseph, a beneficiary of ICIC. This is to thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting ICIC in Uganda. I was a Catholic from childhood but Jesus was not my personal savior. I was in illicit marriage for thirteen years and I did not mind. Sin had separated me from God and my family was full of fighting and quarreling. My wife and I attend Marriage and Family Renewal Programs of ICIC and now we are teachers of couples.

“Our marriage was healed. Now we are a happy couple.”

ICIC was the door for my salvation. In fact, it came for me. I started by hearing about it over the radio. They would preach and invite people for conferences and weekend programs. I first went alone for a couple’s weekend and fortunately I was accepted despite going alone. While I was at the couples’ weekend they taught about the ten commandments of marriage. I realized I was breaking all of them and marriage was miserable. It was filled with hatred and resentment. I requested the teacher to redo the talk for me and my wife the next time. We visited him and he taught us. Our marriage was healed. Now we are a happy couple. Thank you, brothers and sisters, for sponsoring these programs. – Godfrey

I want to thank God and ICIC. I have never got chance to be at ICIC functions. My work schedule is very tight but I am very loyal to listening to radio programs. The preaching is very relevant to my situation. I listen to all the four FM stations where ICIC preaches. I was wondering how ICIC gets funds to be on all four FM radio stations. I was told by one of the leaders that the program is sponsored. I want to thank you who sponsor this. God bless you, you are saving many people. I was saved by the preaching at the radio when the preacher said that when I don’t forgive those who hurt me, I keep poison my vital organs and it keeps killing me slowly. I no longer hold grudges and I don’t demand to be asked for forgiveness before I forgive. I live happily now. It's hard for anyone to torture me with their insults.

I am one of the people who benefited from ICIC Radio evangelization. In fact my whole family was changed by this ministry. We listen to the radio preaching which restored our family unity and prayer. We care for one another in the family now and there is peace in our home. Personally, I learned to accept everyone in the family and be patient with them. This stopped my headache and stress. I am at peace now. I want to thank God very much for the evangelical radio programs of ICIC

“I didn’t know love until ICIC brought food for me and my children. I had no work and was starving… that’s when I saw God’s love.”

“The ICIC leadership team has brought real change to this city and formed a wide network of servant leaders.”

“I didn’t have any family… but at a Challenge Weekend, I experienced the love of God. I’ve been doing that for others, and now I have a wide family.”