{"id":18972,"date":"2021-08-19T16:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=18972"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T13:16:04","slug":"immaculates-future-father-in-law-played-matchmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=18972","title":{"rendered":"Immaculate\u2019s future father-in-law played matchmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"author noprint\"><strong>By Joyce Aheebwa<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/lifestyle\/heart-to-heart\/joyce-aheebwa-3345654\"><span class=\"author-profile\">More by this Author<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">It literally took Philip Muganzi a near &#8211; death experience to meet a wife that he had been praying for and for whom he had, by faith, sown a seed years before..<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">\u201cWhen my father mentioned the church at which the Good Samaritan lady from the accident worshipped, I knew this was the answer to my prayer,\u201d Philip says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">For Immaculate Kyarisiima, having developed a strong friendship with Philip\u2019s father since the accident, played the biggest role towards saying yes to Philip within the short two weeks they got to know each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">\u201cAround the time all this was happening, I had already been very ready for marriage. I would stand and scream, \u2018I take the anointing of marriage\u2019, during services as my pastor preached. I looked so ridiculous before people, yet I did not mind. I am a lady of crazy faith,\u201d Immaculate narrates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">And so when Philip declared his intention, she did not hesitate; after all knowing the family is the strongest foundation needed for a lasting good marriage, according to Immaculate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\"><strong>The accident<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">On January 10, 2019 as Philip, his father and elder sister were travelling from their farm in Kyegegwa to Mbarara, the vehicle they were using veered off the road, overturning seven times before coming to a halt in someone\u2019s compound at the foot of the hills of Mparo, Kyegegwa. It was purely a miracle that anyone survived with minor injuries seeing how the car was wrecked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">\u201cSoon enough a crowd had gathered and among them my now beautiful wife,\u201d Philip says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">\u201cWe were returning from the field with the sales team of Fres-Uganda that particular Friday, when we met many people crowded at an accident scene,\u201d Immaculate says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">\u201cThere was a woman preaching passionately. Turns out she was one of the survivors declaring how it could only have been God that saved them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"align--justify\">That woman is Phillip\u2019s sister. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/lifestyle\/heart-to-heart\/immaculate-s-future-father-in-law-played-matchmaker-3517310\">Click to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joyce Aheebwa More by this Author &nbsp; It literally took Philip Muganzi a near &#8211; death experience to meet a wife that he had been praying for and for whom he had, by faith, sown a seed years before.. \u201cWhen my father mentioned the church at which the Good Samaritan lady from the accident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1785],"class_list":["post-18972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-stories"],"authors":[{"term_id":1785,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"enantambi","display_name":"Esther Nantambi","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b1fa0f938f32d805446562e1bb7c32da6a6c7e51bd320fd89d4ba0819146b78d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Esther","last_name":"Nantambi","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18975,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions\/18975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}