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See the life-changing impact taking place across Uganda, including children and youth, missions, medical care, and clean water projects.

Impact Stories

Three children in Uganda smile with new backpacks, notebooks and school supplies.

Look what happened when school started back in Uganda

When you gave toward a backpack, you didn’t know exactly whose hands it would end up in. Imran’s grandmother didn’t know someone across the world was thinking about kids like him, either. But this week, he walked home from school with a brand-new backpack and a huge smile.

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Show Mercy team members carry Sarah in a wheelchair into the medical outreach after she arrived unconscious.

Got a minute for another God story?

Sarah was carried into our medical outreach unconscious. She couldn’t open her eyes or speak, and to everyone watching, it looked as though life was slipping away from her. Our medical team moved quickly while others gathered around to pray. What happened next became one of the testimonies from those three days that we still can’t stop talking about.

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A nurse prays with a Show Mercy team member in Uganda.

God did more than our shillings ever could

They came for free medical care, medicine, and answers. But during three days of medical outreach, God did more than our shillings ever could. From a woman asking for a miracle to a man who walked away seeing, these are the stories we couldn’t have made happen with medicine or money.

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Show Mercy team members hold a woman’s hands and pray with her during a medical outreach in Uganda.

We watched God do what medicine couldn’t

Over three days of medical outreach in Uganda, thousands of people came looking for help. Our teams were ready with medical and dental care, but we were also praying and believing God to do what medicine couldn’t. And before those three days were over, we witnessed moments we’re still talking about.

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A group of women in Karamoja, Uganda, sit together with bags of food received during a relief distribution.

Of course there was one more bag

Gift had used the last of her strength to find food. She had heard about the distribution and started making her way there, but collapsed before she could reach it. Because you gave, there was one more bag of food waiting for her.

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Show Mercy team member delivering food and supplies to an elderly man at his home in Uganda.

This was a “Most Needed” moment

You didn’t know James’ name when you gave. Neither did we. But when our team found him lying beside his young son, too weak from hunger to get up, your generosity had already made it possible for us to respond.

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Grace's Story:

In 2004, when we began Show Mercy, we had no idea the depth and reach this journey would take. We simply said yes to helping 50 children. That’s it. No grand strategy. Just obedience.

And that’s when I met Grace—a quiet, wide-eyed little boy sitting in a church service. I invited him to sit on my lap, and from that moment on, he had a special place in my heart.

Grace’s story was painful. His father had died of AIDS, and by custom, he was sent to live with his grandparents. At just seven years old, Grace was forced to work in the fields from dawn to dusk, digging for food with his bare hands. He wasn’t allowed to go to school. He slept on the hard mud floor. His clothes were rags. He was in constant pain—his feet and hands raw and infected from living barefoot in the dirt.

When he was finally brought into our sponsorship program, everything changed.

A Heart Transformed

Grace was safe. He had a bed. A blanket. Shoes. Meals. Clean water. Medical care. An education. But more than all of that—he had love.He would run to carry my bags every time I visited. He started dreaming big, bold dreams. He told me with glistening eyes that one day he would be a pastor and evangelist for Jesus. And over and over again, he dreamed of fishing—casting nets—pulling in a catch.

One day, as he wept in my arms sharing the horrors of his early life, he suddenly lifted his head, smiled, and said something I will never forget:

“I now know what it means to be a King’s kid.”

Grace discovered who he truly was—not an orphan, not a slave—but a son of the King. That truth changed everything for him. And it became a cornerstone of this ministry’s calling.

The Final Goodbye

In 2008, we received the heartbreaking news that Grace had passed away. While being treated in the hospital for an injury, doctors discovered he had leukemia. It progressed quickly, and we didn’t even have time to say goodbye.

But then, something miraculous happened. My husband Mike had a dream. In it, Grace was sitting on Jesus’ lap—radiant, whole, joyful. He looked at Mike and said something like:

“Thank you… for showing me what a good Poppa is on the earth.”

He woke up in tears. It was as if Grace had come back one last time to say thank you—and to pass the baton.

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