MEET OUR ELDERS
Our church leadership team is dedicated to guiding our congregation with wisdom, faith, and a servant’s heart. Through prayer, teaching, and pastoral care, they provide spiritual guidance and support, helping to nurture faith and unity within our congregation. Get to know our leaders and learn how they serve our community with love and integrity.
JOHN TUGGY
John (and Nikki) Tuggy moved to Uganda in 2013 and in 2017 they founded The Source church, with a vision to (re)source God’s global mission from Uganda and East Africa. John has a PhD from Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and is the author of Uganda and the River of Life. He loves his family, his church family, and his Land Cruiser.
John (and Nikki) Tuggy moved to Uganda in 2013 and in 2017 they founded The Source church, with a vision to (re)source God’s global mission from Uganda and East Africa. John has a PhD from Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and is the author of Uganda and the River of Life. He loves his family, his church family, and his Land Cruiser.
ERIC MONGA
Eric has been a faithful member of our elders team for over 8 years. Originally from Congo, Eric is inspired by the love of Christ that teaches of forgiveness, acts of kindness and service. A father to 4 children, he is passionate about serving from a place of love.
Eric has been a faithful member of our elders team for over 8 years. Originally from Congo, Eric is inspired by the love of Christ that teaches of forgiveness, acts of kindness and service. A father to 4 children, he is passionate about serving from a place of love.
NIKKI TUGGY
Nikki and John Tuggy have called Uganda home since 2013. In addition to raising three amazing children, “Mama Source” Nikki helped start the church together with John in 2017. Today she enjoys helping lead worship, volunteering at the school of her children, and leading an international ladies’ Bible study and retreat.
Nikki and John Tuggy have called Uganda home since 2013. In addition to raising three amazing children, “Mama Source” Nikki helped start the church together with John in 2017. Today she enjoys helping lead worship, volunteering at the school of her children, and leading an international ladies’ Bible study and retreat.
NGIRWA DANIEL
A faithful worship leader and lover of music, Tanzania-born Ngirwa is a husband and father to 2. He identifies himself as a child of God devoted to worshipping him through music for the rest of his life, and has served faithfully at the Source to usher his brothers and sisters into worship that touches the heart of the Father.
A faithful worship leader and lover of music, Tanzania-born Ngirwa is a husband and father to 2. He identifies himself as a child of God devoted to worshipping him through music for the rest of his life, and has served faithfully at the Source, along with teaching music at Acacia International School.
JERRY LUKENDO
Born in Congo, Jerry and his family moved to Uganda where has faithfully served as a devoted elder as well as member of our worship team. He is passionate about serving others with love and worshiping through music, a God-given gift that allows him to express his faith, inspired by Colossians 3:16.
Born in Congo, Jerry and his family moved to Uganda where has faithfully served as a devoted elder as well as member of our worship team. He is passionate about serving others with love and worshiping through music, a God-given gift that allows him to express his faith, inspired by Colossians 3:16.
JOHN CHEN
John Chen was born in Malaysia and grew up in New Zealand, before moving to Zambia where he met his wife and started a family. Now a Bible teacher at an international school here in Kampala, John and his wife now have three children. John enjoys playing the piano, taking early morning runs, and spending quiet evening with his family.
John Chen was born in Malaysia and grew up in New Zealand, before moving to Zambia where he met his wife and started a family. Now a Bible teacher at an international school here in Kampala, John and his wife now have 3 children. He enjoys playing the piano, taking early morning runs, and spending quiet evening with his family.
HOW WE STARTED
In 2017, The Source church was founded as a Sunday afternoon gathering of Christian friends who believed God desired to source mission from beautiful Uganda. This fellowship soon grew into a church family meeting every Sunday morning, with a team of elders devoted to shepherding the family – teaching, praying, leading and encouraging growth in Christ. But The Source church really traces its roots to what God has done in Uganda and Africa over the last 100+ years! At the dawn of the 20th century, there were 10 million Christians in all of Africa. But over the next 100 years, the African church skyrocketed to 360 million believers. Not since the early church has the world seen God at work like that! Today, there are more Anglicans in Uganda than there are in England. By 2050, a majority of all Protestant Christians in the world will be African! Ugandans received the gospel with unprecedented eagerness when the first missionary arrived in 1882. And they have been receiving ever since: receiving missionaries, receiving short-term teams, receiving all kinds of material assistance. But the faith Uganda has received is a giving and going faith, a faith that finds its source in a missionary God who gave us His Son and inspired generations of missionaries to go to distant places like Uganda. Today, the need for the gospel in places North – in North Africa, the Middle East, post-Christian Europe, and increasingly America – has never been greater. But most African Christians still think a missionary is, by definition, a white or a mzungu. We don’t believe that! Uganda is the source of the Nile, which for thousands of years has been a source of life as this mighty river flows north. But these lands also need Living Water as well, the water which many in Uganda have drunk deeply. We believe now is Africa’s God-ordained time to move from a mission field to a mission force. It’s time to (re)source God’s mission. From Uganda—for the good of Uganda, the blessing of the nations, and the Glory of God. ..
