Headed Back to Uganda

One in seven Ugandan children will never reach their 5th birthday and more than 435 women will die out of every 100,000 births… If these numbers could be reduced to those in the US, more than 400,000 lives would be saved each year.

The love of Christ compels our return to Uganda to help make a difference is this statistic. Kissito Healthcare International has asked Harry to help lead the effort to train Village Health Teams who will train their communities to help prevent this needless loss of life. So for now, we will be leaving for Mbale in Eastern Uganda on August 29th.

We will be developing a strategic plan to train 183 Community Health Workers and hope to continue doing so as long as God allows. Pam hopes to develop relationships with women in the communities we will be serving and continue her ministry to women and young girls like a 16 year old mother who, having hidden her pregnancy from her parents gave birth to a premature baby boy named “Paul” who had his first and last moments of life in the arms of KHI volunteer Dr. Elissa Shelton, following a self-induced abortion.

Elissa said in her report, “His tiny heart still beating, I sat with him close to my heart and hummed softly to him. “He shelters us in peaceful love… Spirit, move through me and embrace him…” And I waited with him. He died there in my arms with my breath on his cheek and the sun warming our faces.” Please check out this heart wrenching story at

http://www.kissitointernational.org/2011/07/first-and-last-moments-of-life-in-elissas-arms/ and others like this one at

http://www.kissitointernational.org/2011/06/ telling of the work that Harry will be doing with Kissito.

We will continue as Equip missionaries in this project helping bring Hope and Health to this rural district of Uganda and in other places God leads.

You can continue your support for the work that God has called us to do, by sending your contributions to :
Equip, Inc., P.O. Box 1126 Marion, NC 28752

Your Partners in Missions,

Harry and Pam