Meet Yolam and Dorothy Bingi...

Thanks for your patience in the long delay between posts. We apologize for keeping you waiting for more exciting news from YWAM Arua!!

You've been reading a lot about some of the amazing things our visiting teams have been up to, and now we'd like to take time to introduce you to our staff.

We'll be posting short biographies of each of our staff, either as individuals or couples, intermingled with other posts about what's happening on the base. We'd like to thank students on the School of Journalism outreach team from South Africa, Lydia and Agnes, who interviewed our team and wrote these biographies for us...bless you ladies!!

So we'd like to kick off the first of our biographies by introducing you to...

Yolam and Dorothy Bingi!!

Yolam has worked in business all his life, and owns two transport trucks in Soroti. As a practical, hardworking man he is a huge asset to the base, fixing the vehicles and acting as the base driver. Yolam enjoys the adventure of driving outreach teams deep into the bush, has a great sense of humour and loves playing with the young children on the base. With these skills and passion, Yolam wants to run a vocational training school for the local youth, teaching them mechanics and driving skills.

Yolam became a believer late in life, after his wife Dorothy, who was already a Christian, was miraculously healed. He did his CDTS in 2006 and joined Arua staff in 2008. He looks at his time in YWAM as a season to serve and share knowledge through interacting with visitors.

Dorothy grew up as a Muslim in Soroti, Uganda, and was the first of her family to become a Christian. Coming from this background, her passion is to reach out to Muslim women and children - especially those traumatized by war. Wanting to empower them, Dorothy teaches tailoring skills to a group of local women, and loves this discipleship ministry. She also uses her dress making skills as a means of raising personal support and enjoys expressing herself in this creative way.

Dorothy and Yolam have three older children. She joined YWAM Arua staff in 2006 after doing her CDTS the previous year. She has staffed two DTSs, and having led an outreach into the Congo, feels a strong sense of calling to this area. In the long-term, she would love to be part of pioneering YWAM in the NE Congo.

Please stand with us in prayer for Yolam and Dorothy as they struggle to put their children through school and university, and continue serving God in the areas He has called them to.

The Great Gospel Crusade

(Apologies for the delays in getting this post up. I had to rush to England unexpectedly to attend my father-in-law's funeral. Many thanks to Brienne from the Colorado Team who sent me the photos and explanations via e-mail in England so we could post this update. Blessings, Vikki)




An opportunity came up suddenly for some of the Colorado Springs Discipleship Training Outreach team to join with members of Grace Pentecostal Church in Arua for a crusade in the town of Nyadri, in the West Nile district of Uganda.

Eric, one of our YWAM Arua staff members from Rwanda, heard about the crusade and organized
several of the Colorado team members for the journey to Nyadri to take part in the Great Gospel Crusade.


Brienne writes: "We became quite close with a number of the girls throughout the four days of the crusade. We were eating, ministering and sleeping along side them. Comfort, who is on the left of the man in the blue shirt, was paired with me for one of our days of house visits. It was awesome to be able to lift each other up as we shared God’s love with many people.

"The very last visit we made was to the gang of boys who gather at the edge of town to give Boda (bicycle) rides to people. It was an intimidating group of more than 20 young men. They sat down in the shade to hear what we had to say, maybe more curious what these two girls were doing sitting down with them than anything. As we shared we found that three of them were very interested in Jesus and were able to lead those three and many others to God. It was an exciting moment! We felt like God wants to use the three who were so eager to learn as teachers for the town. They now have Bibles of their own and have been sent out to grow and share what they are learning with those around them."



Throughout the Crusade, several of the team took turns preaching and sharing their testimonies.



Here is Carol sharing a testimony....

...and Britnee sharing a testimony.

Worship was a key part of the Crusade.

"Joseph played guitar with the worship band during all of the crusades. Three days of crusade and three hours of worship an evening…his fingers were about to fall off. The people really appreciated him stepping in and enthusiastically filling a hole in their band. He was able to build strong friendships through this simple act."







Joao, Carol and Brienne lead worship on stage.












"We were so thankful to have Eric as our guide. He was my favorite person to look out and find as we were worshiping as he always had a smile on his lips and joy exuding from his body as he danced and sang to Jesus."

Carol dancing during worship

"The last day of the Crusades, we were in the back lifting up people right before the preacher began to preach. The entire week was bathed in a ton of prayer, it was the common thread in the middle of all the activities."







"Joao is holding a boy who we prayed for healing. He is four years old but looks like he is maybe 2. He was born with a condition where he just doesn’t grown up. He couldn’t sit up before we prayed for him, but the next day his mother brought him up to the front to say that she heard his back cracking in the night as he slept and when he woke up he was able to sit up with a straight back by himself."









"This young girl’s story was especially touching. Mandy looked like she was about four years old and was carried by her mother up to the front for prayer. Her arms and legs were like toothpicks and she didn’t speak a word. As we spoke with her mother, we were shocked to find out that the girl was almost 10 years old and had been like this since she was very small. The last day of the crusade, the pastor asked for testimonies, and the mother came up holding Mandy. She said that on the way home, after being prayed for, Mandy started to talk to her and asked her for bread and chai (tea)! They were blessed with a gift of money as they walked, and so she was able to buy bread for her daughter to eat. There was much rejoicing over everything that God was doing in that town."




"Milka is a girl from town who has some mental problems caused by malaria when she was about 7. She hugged and loved on us whenever we saw her. She was desperately sad when we had to leave and wanted to go with us. Her father is a pastor and we were told that she hasn’t allowed anyone to pray over her for the healing of her mind. Because of the relationship Britnee and I had built with Milka, we were able to spend some time in prayer with her. It was a blessing to us and I think encouraging to her family as well."


"We left tired, but so refreshed and encouraged, both by the people we were with as well as the miracles that we saw. The best part is that the whole ministry was planned by the churches here in Arua and we just came alongside them. It is beautiful to see the church functioning as it should, growing strong and then reaching their own people. "


YWAM Arua would like to say a big THANK YOU to the whole Colorado team for their hard work, commitment, and passion to share the love of God. We appreciate and love you all! Be blessed as you continue to follow God's leading.