Pastor Allan Kisakye’s Story

By Allan Kisakye –

The father to the fatherless, the defender of widows is God in His holy dwelling.  God sets the lonely in families, He leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious live in a sun scotched land. 

 When I was four months old my mother abandoned me because she had separated from my Dad. My grandma raised me. She was an aged widow already with 13 children of her own. She would dig in people’s yards to earn a living.  When I was six, my father came and took me to stay with my stepmother. While with her, I was verbally, emotionally, and physically abused to the point that my Aunt Serena, fearing for my life, acted as a child trafficker and stole me from my stepmother one night. We walked for nearly 30km to my grandmother’s. My aunt risker her life by walking home that same night.  

When I was about 9, my grandmother was unable to support me in school. I innovatively started rummaging through several garbage piles to find useful articles to use at home, especially food and charcoal for fuel. During these years, I became a part-time street boy and while on the streets, life served me with several hard knocks, some of which were life threatening.  At home sleeping on an empty stomach was normal. We got used to it and for years we ate one meal per day, if we got even that. I was always a sickly boy due to malnourishment, but herbs were my usual medication. I first received proper treatment from a Doctor at the age of 13 through a good Samaritan and shortly after that I was privileged to wear my first shoes. 

Through it all, God was pursuing my heart, and the more I turned away from Him, the more I struggled with life. Till when I became too ill, confused, and depressed to the point that I contemplated ending my life, but failed to find the rightful means of doing it! The thief does not come but to steal, kill and destroy.  Jesus came that we may have life and have it more abundantly. Because I neglected this truth, I was stuck, broken, and hopeless. When a friend shared the gospel with me, I hesitated but later gave Christ my life.  Since then, I became peaceful, gained hope, and got a sense of belonging and all of a sudden, life became meaningful and purposeful. 

All things work together for good to them that love God and to them that are called according to His purposes.  God made a way for me to continue my education in Kako Secondary School.  There I became a leader of Scripture Union and God gave me a burden of caring for orphan children.  I influenced several students to give alms to the poor and every holiday, I usually collected nearly 3 to 4bags of stuff to give out to orphans around my community and share the good news with them. It was at this time that Jaja Bill and Ann, founders of the ministry where I am serving, came to preach to students in our school. I became a friend and later a dear son to them.  When God called them to begin Eagles Wings Children’s Village, they asked me to join them. We became ministry partners.  I have been happily married to Harriet Kisakye for nearly 9 years and we have 6 children including a nephew. We also open our home to youth in need of care. I enjoy encouraging children and youth, to put their hope and trust in God as their father, for He alone knows the plans He has for you, to give you a hope and a future.