Joshua Muzuva (extreme right, during the Muyenga Cohort)
By Joshua Muzuva
Last year, 2025, I was looking through different options for an accessible Bible study near me. I had long been away from church due to a few factors, and my friend, Paul Geno, shared this with me about the faith and work cohort, and, oh, what a delight it was to come!
It was proximal to me, in Muyenga, yet I still held some skepticism around the wrong teachings in many Kampala spaces. So what a relief and encouragement it was to find a Christ-centered teaching on the whole ideology of faith in the workplace.
It was absolutely beautiful; I loved it.
See, it’s such a misconception that the work we do is separate from our faith. In my cohort, I found it fascinating that we were applying different passages to aspects of my work; it also introduced an eternal perspective to what I do every day as a software developer.
I am grateful to God, who has used the Faith and Work platform to reveal how we often hide ourselves or excuse ourselves behind the curtain of “I am too busy.”
You know, I realized it is one thing to know what Christ did for us on the cross, but it is another to actually live and apply those truths in our lives. Theology is practical, but what we sometimes do as Christians is feed on Sunday and let it just sit in our minds and notes (for those who take them, anyway) without any meditation or engagement of our willpower. Faith and work helped me bridge those gaps.
Transformation sometimes takes forever, so we must engage the truth we already know early. The cohort did this for me; then the 20-minute weekly Thursday online lunchtime prayer sessions of “Pray for my work,” recently covering Colossians, have also helped me apply things to my direct line of work. You discover through many of these sessions that what is happening at your work is providentially what is being discussed or prayed for that day.
And setting time aside to regularly pray for your work in itself is quite healing for my often already rushed morning prayers, not to mention the aspect of praying for other people’s work is liberating and refreshing by itself.
So glory be to God for faith and work, and may God continue to use this platform for His glory.
Joshua works as a software developer at AIBOS Uganda
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