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Rescue & Care in Action: Patrick – Jezza Kinship Family, Uganda
Reading Patrick’s file only tells you a fraction of his life story. At 9 years old, Patrick lost his father to tuberculosis and HIV. His mother did not return from South Sudan alive. His grandmother could barely hold herself up, let alone a boy. No siblings. No safety net. Soon after that, no grandmother. That’s the story his file tells. It’s true, but it’s also the least interesting thing about him. When you get to know Patrick, who now calls the Jezza Kinship Family home, you learn everything his file leaves out. Give Patrick a lump of clay and he Newsletter
The Ripple Effect of YOUR Impact
When you make an impact on a Kinship Family, you can see it. Food is hot on the table. A widow has a bed to sleep on. Little feet are protected by new shoes. And a Bible is in an orphan’s hands. But your impact also has a ripple effect. It resonates over time. It even reaches others: a community, all people that child will touch over their lifetime. When you read this update, look beyond the obvious. Imagine the ripple effect of your kindness! In Uganda… Kinship Alumni are still a big part of their Kinship Family. Many return Newsletter
A Father’s Love, a Church’s Promise, and a Boy’s Future
The boy who lives under my roof came to me the way the most important things often do: through a door I did not know was about to open. His name is Ronald. To tell you how he came to this church home, I have to tell you about the man who brought him: his father, Guma. Guma came to us from Goma, across the border in eastern Congo, a father with three children and no wife beside him. That region has a way of emptying families toward us, and this church in Mityana had learned to make room. He Child Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Why Agnes Stays
Agnes was four when her only parent, her father, was killed when violent raiders ambushed and stole their cattle. A safe home with the Buloba Kinship Family in Uganda gave her dignity: a bed, clothes, a meal she did not fear losing. But when she looks back, it was her Kinship Family that healed her most. The home Pastor, his wife Sarah, widowed Maama Mercy. They loved her every day, and showed her how to pray. “The girl who had lost one father found another Father who could not be taken from her, and it changed the way she stood Newsletter
Big Changes YOU Made Around the World!
Your stewardship makes deep ripple effects directly where you designate, reaching thriving Kinship Families worldwide! In Pakistan at the Lahore Kinship Family… A big shipment of new clothes arrived just in time for the hot, rainy summer season. The girls loved the new sundresses, and the boys were excited about blue jeans, but every Kinship Kid got a variety of new items! In India at the Home of Love Kinship Family… Kinship Kids began their summer break in June. Many of the older teenage kids have chosen to attend sewing or computer summer school. Please pray for their bright futures! Newsletter
