Only a few days ago, Mrs. Patience Rwabwogo, President Yoweri Museveni’s third-born daughter and a senior pastor at Covenant Nations Church in Luzira, came out to share a rather distant story of her financial struggle and triumph in life. Rwabwogo revealed how it had not been easy to service her mortgage, as many people think, but a hustle for her and her husband, Odreck Rwabwogo, up to the present.
The couple bought their current home in Buziga some 18 years ago, whose down payment and mortgage payments they initially comfortably managed with an income from their business. However, unsurmountable challenges hit the business, creating a backlog in payments. They started receiving warning letters from their bank threatening to advertise the house for foreclosure if they did not pay the outstanding interest and bring the account current within seven days.
She reflected on that difficult period, describing how they had to raise the funds needed to clear the interest and hence retain their home. It is by grace from God that they managed to pay off the whole mortgage within seven years, she put across.
Mrs. Rwabwogo talked about trusting in God and not having to fear stepping into His will. This was not just some sort of personal faith but an epitome of resilience in her life amidst the wrongs committed against her by the people she loved and trusted most.
Beyond the role of being a pastor, Mrs. Rwabwogo is a renowned businesswoman with various business ventures in farming. According to his father, President Museveni, Patience showed a streak of entrepreneurship at a tender age. After her university education in Minnesota, USA, she went into business, starting off by milling grain before graduating to cattle farming.
She inspires people by showing that a person, through faith and personal will, can supersede any kind of big challenge and succeed.
