TO EXIST WITHOUT PARENT’S LOVE

Unlike most of the children, I never had parental love and if people did not know my last name, I would never offer to say it. Born to the late Dr.Mark and Ruth Sentambule, I attended primary school due to financial difficulties. Later at the age of 40 I joined secondary.

At times I would spend a week away from school due to lack of fees. After completing A’ level and contemplating joining university, I got married in 1987 and at this time I thought all my dreams of education had been shattered.

All I knew was that I had given up on education and look after my family with 5 boys. Despite the challenges of managing a family, I never gave up on my long time ambitions of joining university.

I started working on weekends and later used my holiday time to fill in for other days. My friends know me as someone who does not get embarrassed for doing odd jobs. Not only acquiring tuition from a job that many people may consider odd, but I have been able to pay for my boys pursuing their BSC in Industrial Psychology and Business Management at Makerere University.

The job was so challenging for me when I had to strike a balance between my books and delivering at work. Now am a Managing Director child development ministry in Kenya.  “Perhaps success does not come on a silver plate given someone’s background; you just need to change your mind set in life amidst struggles”.

IN MY NEED JESUS FOUND ME

I never knew that at one point in time God would exalt me to this extent. After the death of my parents and four of my brothers because of HIV/AIDS, life became miserable.

Surprising I and the last born brother Brian  escaped the epidemic testing negatively at birth. I started living my life as a street kid after all my friends blaspheming me as a walking dead body.

At the age of 10, i ran away from my home village in Masaka after the death of my father in 1995. My grandfather began mistreating me and i fled to Kampala to live with my grandmother. Life with grandmother was sheer survival for the fittest as he could bearly have anything for himself.

Living my life as a street kid was not only a fan but broadened my mindset to who I am now. After spending over two years eating on the city dustbin and sleeping under the tree, it was by then when a good Samaritan had to get me out of the street. I started singing in church but to my surprise no one even said amen. At the age of 19 I became renowned musician  

Am now acclaimed gospel singer, preacher, pastor at Light the World Ministries and adopted father to many.

No matter where you come from, you can make it in life only if you believe in yourself and above all making your anxieties known to a loving father in heaven.”I alone know the plans I have for you”

FACING A TASK UNFINISHED

I had everything to make me happy. Enjoying perfect physical and mental health, living in a beautiful home in a flawless world. God gave me 3 children and the ability to do creative thinking. No trace of worry, fear or sickness marred my blissful days and therefore I found satisfaction in the work of my hands.

But the world changed so drastically into a place of suffering and tragedy. I waked up in the morning to newspapers headlines screaming about my daughter being kidnapped, yet another son died into an accident, yet another daughter became insane, yet heavy floods and earthquakes struck all my beautiful gardens and houses.

While still the moments of sadness and misery, my lovely wife committed past away. In amidst of all the tragedies, I became crapped as a health status.Making matters worse, all my labor was in vein and what started as happiness turned out as endless misery.

There moments when life becomes so precious to the extent of equaling yourself to God, having everything one could desire in this world. At a certain point in time, the world seems a place of horror when nothing makes sense, nothing seems fair and you become a minor cog in some vast cosmic machine.

In the i nutshell, I have lived in a state of enjoying wealth and facing poverty, seen happiness and facing sadness. But all things were meaningless! Instead I have learn’t how to trust in God .Therefore I urge each one of you to allow God take possession of your life.

ITS NOT YET OVER

The in ability of my parents to meet some of the needs of the family did not prohibit me from pursuing my dream with its objectives. Born in a simple family of seven children, I grew up as a subsistence farmer from Kapchorwa District, near the Uganda-Kenya border. Un like other children, I missed three years of elementary school due to an undiagnosed illness. My peers looked down on me as a blasphemer. Looking down to shade off the tears of blasphemer in our family, I started training as an athlete. Despite of all our economic insights in the region and the country at large were the rich keep getting richer and the poor, poorer. I counted on myself among the multimillion dollar fortunes in the world and that kept me working extremely hard until I started breathing from the eye instead of the noise. At the age of 17, I quitted school and moved to the Eldoret region of Kenya to train for the marathon where i was assisted by a non-profit foundation based in New York.
Today am crowned as the world Olympic Marathon champion gold medalist in 2012 London and the current IAAF Moscow 2013 Marathon. Actually my life style is quite long that requires a full book that will soon be released. All the success I attribute to my blasphemer.
To all my friends, take challenges as opportunities to your route to success.