Our History

Sharon Valley Christian Kibbutz Village

The Story Began in 1987 When I Saw The Vision of A New Africa

In the vision I saw groups of Christian families migrating out of cities and urban areas into the vast African countryside and starting new village settlements there. These were well planned villages with large family compounds. The families that established these villages had large individual household plots on which they built their family homes, which had all the modern amenities. The houses had electric power and piped water and were maintained like modern urban homes, which was rare those days.
The families grew food and vegetables for their sustenance and had cottage industries that produced a whole range of products for their own family use and for sale. Along the perimeter of those villages were ranches and agricultural farms that produced both food and cash crops. Many of the household cottage industries were packaging products from these farms.

Dr. Mwesigwa Laban Jjumba

At the centre of each village was a large space where the community constructed their worship hall and built various commercial and social amenities like shops, schools, hospitals and guest houses.
These new communities looked like selfcontained economic units. They both exported to the urban areas and also traded with other communities around the country. There was neither hunger nor poverty in these villages. People looked engaged and happy.
These villages were also bases for preaching the gospel in the countryside and people were turning to Christ. The new believers were taught, not only Christian values and doctrines, but were also taught practical life skills.

They learned the skills used in the new village cottage industries.
The new Christians got employed on the farms and were helped to improve their rural homes.
During July 2017, when parts of our country experienced drought, I called a Christian leader who had established a farm in a low rainfall area in the countryside, to find out how he was coping with the drought. He informed me he had stored enough water. He also told me that he had been inspired to establish his farm by the vision that I had shared during 1987. As we talked, the Holy Spirit dropped a word in my heart, that the time had come for that 1987 vision to be fulfilled.

Reversing rural-to-urban migration to create rural based socioeconomic development.
The urban-to-rural migration would reverse the socioeconomic order of Africa from an urban-based economy to a rural-based socioeconomic development model. Urban based economies have forced massive ruralto- urban migration that has resulted into urban congestion, slums, and perplexing social problems with no solutions. These have included drugs and substance abuse, violence, lawlessness, homelessness, promiscuity and family breakdown. There is also widespread hunger because food is grown in rural areas and in the urban areas everything costs money.

1987 Vision of A New Africa:

Modern Urban homes

In the vision, the houses were built on large family compounds, had piped water and electricity and were maintained like modern urban homes …

Urban-Rural Migration

Migrating from cities and urban areas to the countryside and setting up modern, economically self-sustaining villages

Farming and agro-processing

Setting up modern homes, complete with electricity and piped water … Farming and agro-processing, other factories and cottage industries employing thousands … Plus social services: Church, medical, education, skills-training, sports and recreation.