Missionary profile – Timothy Babweteera

I got saved because they told me that becoming a believer would ensure I passed my exams. It was the wrong presentation of the Gospel, but it brought me to Christ. I have been a missionary and a mobilizer for 11 years now. I took the Kairos course at a time when I was coming from a crisis of faith and almost losing my faith. I was asking myself, “What is God really about?” Kairos showed me that God is interested in the nations. When I realized God’s plan for the nations through Kairos, my walk with the Lord finally made sense, and I knew this was what I wanted.

After the Kairos course, I started rereading the Bible from Genesis, and it made so much sense when I read it in the light of God’s plan for the world’s salvation. This realization gave me a deep sense of purpose. My salvation made sense; it was more than, “Ok. I’m saved, now headed to heaven.” I later did the Perspectives course in Kigali, and my friends and I returned, pumped and excited to reach out. We didn’t know any other indigenous missionary or mission agency that would take us in. We felt a need to have a platform to start going. We were restless and excited; we couldn’t just keep talking about and praying for the unreached. If it was true that there are unreached people, we needed to do something about it. After struggling a little, my friends and I started a missions agency, the Frontier Missions Team. At first, we thought we needed to create awareness and a platform to facilitate Kairos. Over time, after going as missionaries to different places, we felt the need to do more. One day I woke up at 5 AM to pray—which wasn’t normal for me at that time—and I felt God telling me, “Timothy, if you don’t go, no one will follow, no one else will go,” I said, “If you want me to go, I will go.”

We didn’t want mobilization to be an end in itself; it’s supposed to lead to salvation. Starting a missions agency and going out as a young missionary was a huge learning experience. We were young and inexperienced but fired up for the Lord. We set out as missionaries in Karamoja. Today, you’ll find us on our motorbikes going from one village to another to spread the love of Christ. Copyright AfriGOmissions 2023