Jimmy Okello

Baptist. Reformed. College Pastor.

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

@NY_amankwaa They even introduced C-section for birth. Who civilized who?

[Future Stacked @FutureStacked]

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Number 6 is wild and mind-blowing: 👇

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

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[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

She’s dead! For them it’s just politics, for another family it is a loved one gone - just because she held a different political opinion! How do you expect others to feel your pain when you are directly killing their own! Can we ever have peace where we’ve inflicted such pointless permanent pain on others? Would you pretend to be angry when such innocent people you’ve harmed and hurt celebrate your own pain?

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

Chemistry was one of those subjects that gave me a hard time in school, so seeing D enjoy it so much was extra special. He received his science kits started doing experiments. Watching his face light up as the substance fizzed in his cups was such a beautiful moment.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

In 1879, Ugandan healers were performing cesarean sections with a survival rate that stunned European doctors—while much of the "civilized" world still saw the procedure as a death sentence.

British explorer Robert Felkin documented the operation in detail. The surgeon used banana wine as an antiseptic, herbal anesthetics to manage pain, and cauterization with a hot iron to control bleeding. The mother survived. The baby survived. The technique worked.

This wasn't primitive luck. It was sophisticated medical knowledge passed down through generations—refined, systematic, life-saving.

Yet the dominant narrative tells us modern medicine arrived in Africa with colonizers and that before European intervention, the continent had no science, no innovation, no expertise.

But here's the contradiction: if African medical practices were so "backward," why were European observers documenting them with awe? Why were these techniques—rooted in empirical observation and botanical knowledge—producing outcomes that Europe itself struggled to achieve until the late 19th century?

The Buganda Kingdom had what the British Empire didn't: working cesarean sections that saved lives.

So what else were we doing that got erased, ignored, or rebranded as "discovered" by someone else?

Sources:
- Felkin, R. W. (1884). "Notes on Labour in Central Africa." Edinburgh Medical Journal
- Ajayi, J. F. (1965). Christian Missions in Nigeria 1841-1891. Northwestern University Press

Credit: African Echo

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

I completed Kairos Missions Training with at Janani Luwum Theological College in Gulu & I’m so encouraged! Deeply challenged by God’s heart for the nations and inspired by how student movements have shaped global missions. Lord, here am I, send me!

#KairosCourse #GreatCommission

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Grateful to see Gulu Faith & Work using my book The Rich Fool for money discipleship among professionals in Gulu.

God is at work shaping how we think about faith, work, and stewardship.

Professionals in Gulu—join us every Monday at Elephante, 5:30pm.

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

P recious is the gift of your life today.
H appy moments follow you always.
I n your smile, joy finds a home.
O n this birthday, may God bless you richly.
N ew grace fills your year ahead.
A lways loved, always cherished.
H appy Birthday, Phionah. 🎉❤️

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@YossiBenYakar That is outright Christophobia.

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It's Church Planting Sunday.

[University Community Church Gulu @uccgulu2]

Join us Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, for Church Planting Sunday! We’ll be celebrating and highlighting what God is doing through church planting across Africa. Hear inspiring updates on how God is preparing us for our next church plant.Time: 9am.
#uccgulu #churchplantingsunday #acst29

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

“Total depravity means that sin affects every aspect of our person, that our good acts are not done entirely out of love for God, and that we are completely unable to extricate ourselves from this sinful condition.” ~ Millard J. Erickson

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@SmGeral @observerug It’s a free economy. If it’s inappropriate for you Muslim, have you talked to the man to go sell somewhere else? What makes you think that you have the right to resort to violence?

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

@mudooli @observerug There is a sensible Muslim. It’s a free economy. Muslims should understand that Christians or anyone else who is not a Muslim will forced to live by Koran standards. Such madness cannot be tolerated.

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

@balayojacob @ZuberMansa @Lulua_TV This actually applies to you. The Koran tells you not to eat pork, so don’t eat. But Christians are free in Christ to eat pork as long as they give thanks to God.

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@ZuberMansa @Lulua_TV Brother, why don’t you mind about what your religion allows you to eat and leave us alone?

[Jimmy Okello @JimmyOkello]

@ZuberMansa @Lulua_TV Colossians 2:16–17
“Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink… These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.”

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@ZuberMansa @Lulua_TV 1 Tim 4:3–5
“They require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by prayer.

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@ZuberMansa @Lulua_TV Romans 14:14
“I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.”

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@ZuberMansa @Lulua_TV Acts 10:13–15
“And there came a voice to him: ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’ But Peter said, ‘By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.’ And the voice came to him again a second time, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’”

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@ZuberMansa @Lulua_TV Mark 7:18–19
“Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him… (Thus he declared all foods clean).”