Missionary profile – Samuel Opolot

By Mercy Kambura

Samuel Opolot

A missionary, mobilizer, and mission founder from Uganda

As a mobilizer, I’ve been asked, “Are we mobilizing more than we’re going? Do we even need to have people mobilized at all?”

However, I feel that what we should be asking is, “Are we even mobilizing enough?”

We need to mobilize more until we see more people going. And this has been the focus as a co-founder of Global-Link Africa (GLA).

I also serve as the National Coordinator for Simply Mobilizing Uganda. Since last year, I have served as the Missions Organizer with my local church, All Saints Chapel Lweza.

I’m a trained teacher and taught for a few years before I felt a leading to be involved in student ministries. I have served with the Fellowship of Christian Unions (FOCUS) as staff in Uganda’s regional and national offices. It’s here that I was exposed to cross-cultural missions, and the desire to be involved was born.

In Uganda, we have at least four indigenous unreached people groups. Despite the massive need for the Gospel, we aren’t sending enough missionaries; a lot of work needs to be done. We need more voices championing the mobilization process within the local church. If we are going to challenge people into missions, we must have proper infrastructure, and that’s why GLA was born.

My passion is to mobilize churches, and I feel we don’t have indigenous models for mission sending. How then can we effectively send missionaries to the African Church? My wife, Alice, and I have been working to mobilize the local church.

Watch my interview with AfriGO Conversations as we dissect the problems the African Church is experiencing in the quest to send missionaries and how we can attempt to solve them: https://youtu.be/pAclAe8J3Mc?feature=shared

#Pray:

*For all mobilization efforts going on in the African congregations and agencies.

*For leadership, cross-cultural missions, and practical models that appreciate the Ugandan context.