A Ugandan pastor, David Ochieng has shut down his church after winning 100 million UGX in sports betting, thereby leaving members in disbelief and confusion
It was gathered that members of the church who visited the premises were shocked when they saw that the gate was locked and did not know what to do.
When contacted, the Pastor confessed that the reason he chose to work in the vineyard of God was strictly to earn income to survive and not because he was called.
Ochieng further described the winning as a blessing from God and a swift way to get him out of poverty he was in because he could not sustain himself with money from his poor congregation.
The pastor reportedly confessed that he has been struggling to make ends meet through the collection of tithes.
“I must admit that I opened this church due to ‘greed’ but not anointing. I saw how several pastors make money through the crowds they have and making fake prophesies to attract more,” he narrated.
“As time went on, I realized this wasn’t right, I started having sleepless nights and I would always have weird dreams. Before I opened this church, everything was normal on my side, even without money, I didn’t get any strange dreams, so, I decided to abolish this and look for other ways of making money.
“So one day, a notification pops up on my phone about fixed games. It was an interesting story, and I followed it to the dot. I got the website link, and sacrificed the 1m I had to pay for these games, surprisingly, it took me about a month to receive the games.
“They told me, they had issues with their system and also the process of securing games takes time, I almost gave up and called them scammers but they contacted me with the details, and wow! I went full swing. I got an odd of 700.
“I had to stop the church because I had got my ways of making money, until now, I have made a lot that I never imagined I would ever get in my life.”
