S15 Ep18: Miracles with Pastor Richmond Wandera

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jennie invites Pastor Richmond Wandera to share his extraordinary journey from the streets of Uganda to becoming a source of hope to his community as a pastor. Richmond's story begins with a childhood marked by tragedy and struggle, but through the intervention of Compassion International, his life takes a miraculous turn. Listen to learn more about Richmond’s story and how you can make a difference in the lives of children in Uganda facing similar hardships.

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MAIN POINTS:

00:09 Jennie Introduces Richmond Wandera
00:30 Richmond's shares what life was like in Uganda as a child
04:03 How Compassion International gave him hope
07:30 Finding God in suffering
11:20 The ministry of presence as a pastor
15:14 The importance of living simply
18:00 The global food crisis and how we can make a difference
20:57 How you can partner with Compassion International

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0:00.0	This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This podcast.
0:03.6	Well, we have a friend of the podcast back with us today,
0:14.2	Pastor Richmond, Wandera, and it's so good to have you.
0:17.7	If you did not listen to his first message,
0:20.6	it's so great to hear his entire story, but real quick for those that it's been a little while or they never heard the first episode,
0:28.0	Pastor, tell us just a little bit about your story.
0:31.0	Well, thank you so much, Jenny, for having me. My name is Richmonde-Wandera. I come from a country called Uganda.
0:37.0	This is a small country in East Africa.
0:40.0	About 40 million people call this place home and I am one of them.
0:45.0	My story really started as an ordinary young boy in a fairly large family of six siblings.
0:53.1	I had a loving father, a loving mother.
0:55.1	We were as one and it looked like our future was bright
0:59.9	until I was eight years old.
1:02.4	When I was eight years old. When I was eight years old,
1:04.2	the unthinkable happened.
1:06.0	My father was murdered, and he was murdered
1:08.5	in the presence of my mom.
1:10.0	So on that single day, it seemed like I'd lost both my parents.
1:13.4	My father was gone physically, but my mom,
1:16.3	she wasn't the same.
1:17.6	See, before my father's passing, my mother was
1:20.8	the kind of woman you called when you're having a bad day, you know, she could talk your ear off and she had such positive energy, but after the loss of my dog, she just became the quietest question and life was to take a massive time after our landlord kicked us out of the house knowing that we could not afford to pay the rent.
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