Spring 2008 Uganda Trip
Alan Hicks, Integrity Worldwide CEO and President, and Board members, Terry Grissom and Don Richards, traveled to Bundibugyo, Uganda, for strategic planning February 28 to March 9, 2008. The primary purpose of the trip was to build relationships and establish both short and long terms plans for two areas of ministry focus, Bundibugyo, Uganda and Meto, Kenya.
During this trip they distributed goats to families that were donated through our Kids for Kids program. Through the Seeds of Hope program they were able to give 24 women enough rice seed for each to start a small business. Further, the team met with our HIV/AIDS Fellowship group, and as a result of that meeting all of the 216 members will receive hen-laying chickens. Selling the eggs will help them secure medical treatment. The team also looked at several pieces of land to purchase for our Children of Integrity program that is designed to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the many orphans in Uganda.
Summer 2007 Uganda Trip
In the summer of 2007, 21 volunteers traveled with Integrity Worldwide to Uganda to minister to the physical and spiritual needs of the people in the Bundibugyo District. We were very busy in many areas of ministry and development.
As a part of Integrity’s Medical Missions program, our medical staff, 2 physicians and 4 nurses, saw approximately 800-1,000 people a day during medical clinics. We prescribed and distributed over $120,000.00 of medicine. People walked for hours and days to come to the free clinics and then stood in line in the hot sun for hours with crying and hungry babies. After getting medical treatment, all who came received healing prayer from the Integrity Worldwide prayer team. Hundreds of people were fitted with reading glasses, and the excitement of improved vision was contagious. We saw a deaf man regain his hearing after we prayed for him. We saw a glimmer of hope in the people’s eyes…
While we were there we distributed goats to families purchased through your donations to the Kids for Kids program. We taught them about the importance of worming the goats and actually wormed them, together, side-by-side. It was sheer joy, and we laughed together as brothers and sisters in Christ, worlds apart, but really not so very different.
We attended an incredible worship service of the Charismatic Episcopal Church, prophetically proclaimed “New Beginnings”, and ministered to many women during a time of prayer. We took bibles and blankets to prisoners, hugged a million children, ate lots of goat, rice, and potatoes, and landed on a grass landing strip in the jungle. We laughed and cried, saw the hand of God move on behalf of His people, and were forever changed.
Stephanie Grissom with a Ugandan friend
Our medical team saw hundreds of people everyday, some of them waited hours to get treated.
Beautiful, beautiful children.
Distribution of rice seed