On my first trip to Africa in 2001, I met a lovely young Ugandan mother named Grace. Her husband had died of AIDS and consequently Grace was HIV positive. She struggled to provide for her …
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It took a few days to learn the truth about reflectors. It was another month before she discovered that the shower, already a small miracle, also offered hot water.
“I was used to bathing at a well,” said Zahara, now 19. “I didn’t know if you turned the knob you could get hot water.” Read the full story »
Josh is no newcomer to clinics or hospitals. Since the age of four, he has been poked, prodded, and hospitalized so many times that no one knows the number.
My life here in Uganda is a mixture of heartache and joy.
October of 2008, I was challenged in the midst of an economic crisis, not to pull back from giving to the body of Christ, but to see where I could sacrifice or what I could …
The moment was almost surreal. There I was, standing outside a one room mud hut in the village of Mbikko observing Dan who was sitting in the doorway of the hut………
Risa and Kerri will be doing many things while in Uganda. The first is that they will be working on implementing a program called “Junior Achievement” (www.ja.org), which will help the children learn important life …
“I am truly amazed how this once downtrodden girl had been transformed through love and a chance to go to school. Sponsorship truly does make a difference.”
It is a daunting task to consider taking on any attempt to create a word picture to describe a miracle, to tell the story of a supernatural event by trimming it down into an expression of adjectives, nouns and vowels in which one could sell God’s truth and capture the heart of another.
A few years ago, volunteers on a mission trip to Uganda created a video and posted it on YouTube. Founder and Executive Director Mary Ann McCoy is featured talking with the orphans. By watching the …
Dennis joined COG as a Child Welfare Officer in March of 2009. We are very pleased to have him on board.
A team of 27, including 14 adults and 13 teenagers from Community Presbyterian Church in Danville, CA visited Uganda in August. During their two-week trip, they supported the work of Children of Grace by conducting …
