Mission Moroto Stories: Crazy Month & Wild Midnight Ride

April of 2022 was a crazy month for Rebekah and Mission Moroto.

First, Rebekah discovered that the former Mayor of Moroto Town had stolen the title document to Mission Moroto’s land and was trying to steal the land and sell it fraudulently. So, she set up a meeting with this man and some elders to ask him to return the stolen title document. At one point in the meeting the former Mayor picked up a club to strike one of Rebekah’s teen boys whom he assumed had told Rebekah about the theft and attempted fraud (But actually the Holy Spirit had woken her in the night and revealed it to her). As the club was coming down on the head of the teen boy, Rebekah jumped in between and blocked the strike, breaking her arm. The meeting quickly disbanded and the Mayor went and liquored up a group of 20 or 30 local ruffians and they came back with clubs shouting that they were going to kill Rebekah. She stood there in front of them with a herd of her little children behind her holding stones, ready to defend Mama Rebekah. She told the mob, “Go ahead and kill me! I’m standing right here! But, I don’t think my God has given you authority to kill me, has He?” They looked stunned and dropped their clubs and left. Later, a larger mob came and tried to break down the large iron gate at Mission Moroto but finally the soldiers came and broke up the mob. The Mayor put out a contract with local hitmen on Rebekah’s life but the Holy Spirit kept waking her in the night and revealing their plans to the point they finally asked her, “Are you using witchcraft on us? How do you know these things?” She smiled and said, “The Holy Spirit tells me.”

Second, a few nights later, one of her teen boys came to her door with the alarming story that he had just received a call from neighbors telling him his brother had just been abducted and robbed by raiders, his goats stolen, and how he was tied up, clubbed, stoned, stomped and left for dead. Rebekah grabbed her purse, rushed out the door, picked four of her biggest boys to go with her, and drove her van in the dark with one arm in a sling through the mud to find the dying boy. Suddenly she realized her fuel gauge was on empty all the while knowing there was still a contract out on her life. BUT GOD! They didn’t run out of fuel, they found the boy, and raced him to the hospital. He slowly recovered at Mission Moroto and eventually became Rebekah’s gardener for awhile. News outlets began to pick up the story about the Mayor breaking her arm and it went all over Uganda and the perpetrators fled the area. She went to court and miraculously won against the fraud and today Mission Moroto is a very happy and peaceful place. ❤️❤️❤️ www.missionmoroto.org #missionmorotostories