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Jan 25
Africa: My Unforgettable Trip

I’ve just returned from a trip to Africa that I’ll never forget. If you’ve been following the series on my blog, you know that the experience was incredible, and God is working miracles in the lives of thousands of people—from Zimbabwe to Uganda. The journey began in Zimbabwe where my young friend and Liberty University (LU) [...]

Jan 24
Day Eight | Sponsorship: The Gift that Changes Everything

Kampala, Uganda | The children of Good Samaritan School are survivors. Most have been directly impacted by the brutality of the LRA or the devastating AIDS epidemic. The majority are orphans with virtually no chance for survival . . . until they came to Good Samaritan. As our team arrived at the campus, every child I [...]

Jan 23
Day Seven: Reclaiming the Slums

Katwe, Uganda | Evah Mugerwa, affectionately known as “Mama Evah,” is on a mission to reclaim one of Uganda’s most notorious slums. The streets of Katwe are littered with garbage, raw sewage . . . and orphans—children who have either lost their parents to crime, AIDS, or have been abandoned by their distressed caretakers. It’s [...]

Jan 22
Day Six: A Place to Call Home

Northern Uganda | The Lord’s Resistance Army’s reign of terror throughout rural Uganda triggered a wave of mass chaos. Thousands of Ugandans fled to escape the violence of the rebel army, causing a refugee crisis of disastrous proportions. Because either their homes had been ransacked or occupied by the soldiers, many remained homeless, terrified to [...]

Jan 21
Day Five: It’s Never Too Late for Hope

“They told me that if I didn’t kill my brother now . . . they would kill me, Moses said. My brother kept yelling, ‘Do it . . . you will live  . . . do it!’ Moses told me he was crying and kept saying that he couldn’t do it, but the soldiers were [...]

Jan 20
Day Four, Part II: This is How We Change the World

Kampala, Uganda | If you really want to change the world, you have to empower the next generation of young people to carry the torch. That’s exactly what we strive to do in each of our World Help Child Sponsorship Programs and with each member of our Children of the World choir. Investing in the [...]

Jan 20
Day Three and Day Four: How One Man’s Legacy is Changing Uganda

Yesterday our team traveled from Zimbabwe to Uganda—a country that has endured decades of terror, tragedy, and devastation at the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).  It’s a place where the AIDS epidemic is relentless, where orphans wander the streets. The effects of poverty have been devastating, leaving millions without hope. Katwe, Uganda | [...]

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