My Name is Emmanuel Superior Tugumetushabe,
Born 9th January 1983 in Mbarara
I am an Economist with Ministry of Finance, Planning
and Economic Development, and Education Service Commission.
I am also the CEO of Elle Limited, a financial
management and Investment firm located at Greenland Towers.
I hold a Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting)
(MUK) and am still pursuing a Masters in Banking and Investments Management
(MUK).
I got born
again when I was 12 at Mbarara Municipal Primary school, I was then a member of
scripture union Uganda, I believe this is when the seed was planted in me.
I would then backslide,
coming back, going back and forth during my high school at Mbarara High School,
Gombe SS and Valley College. Even then, holding onto my beliefs as a Christian
and remaining active in church activities.
I however recommitted
my life to Christ in my adult life in 2007 shortly before finishing University
and have been born again since, fellowshipping at Watoto Church Central and East,
The Call
I was in
between jobs in 2009, when God showed me his power beyond what I ever felt, his
word delivered me, on a day when all hope was gone, he personally talked to me
to serve him, that day I posted his calling to me on my blog, http://www.etugume.blogspot.com/2009/11/gods-calling.html,
from then I knew that it was a matter of time, I began to pray and ask him for
confirmation of his calling for I was not sure how to serve him.
In 2011,
while I was doing my masters (Banking and Investments Management), it happened
that I was good at discussing the most complex topics of the course one of
which was financial engineering, to my classmates and they would keep coming
back to me on how to go about the concepts and questions, some even acknowledging
my gift in teaching, although I passed the paper, I discovered shortly after
the exam, that I had personally failed the questions I had been discussing for
my colleagues before the exam, it saddened and troubled my spirit that I could
not eat or even sleep that night, all the while asking God Why this kept
happening to me (it wasn’t my first time, but this time it hit me hard) some of
my friends even suggested I had been bewitched but I held onto my faith, my aspiration
then was to make it as a lecturer so I badly needed the grades. I must admit
here too that at some point I lived in sin for a while.
That night,
the lord revealed to me, ‘you are teaching the wrong things’. In a trance, God
spoke clearly to my spirit that my priorities were upside down, that he had
given me the gifts necessary to discern and teach his word but I am using these
for my own benefit. When I woke up the next day, I knew exactly what to do and
what my life was about. I even dropped the Masters save for the fact that It
was my final set of papers which I passed and I was left with only thesis.
I then
started telling my cell mates to pray for me and started looking for a place,
reading books and buying DVDs and CDs about ministry, but getting a place was
proving to be hard, for almost a year, hotel after hotel, building after
building we would be rejected or asked to pay too much that I could not afford
and this shook my faith and brought doubt, occasionally, I even put the whole
idea aside as an illusion but God would find a way to bring it up, was i the
modern day Jonah? This also came to me in a summon. Then I told God, if you
have truly called me, find me a place.
I had just
shifted to Najera, Ntinda on 28th October, 2012. The first hotel I went
to, Nob View Hotel, they said yes and welcomed us, it has wonderful conference
facilities for us to use and on 4th November, we opened the Praise
Chapel Ministries in our first service with 8 people and God is moving in us
since,
I have never
felt the presence of God like I do now, I breathe it, I depend on it, or privileged
as I am that God can choose to use me in my generation since I said here I am
send me, “Also I heard a voice of the lord saying, whom shall I send and who
will go for us? Then said I, here I am, send me (Isaiah 6:8)” now I live for
him, I belong to him, everything I have and own is for him.
Let’s Praise
the Lord, Preach His Grace & Faith, Discern and Teach his Word and Win
Souls. Welcome to The Praise Chapel Ministries.
