Katherine Hines - They Call Me Momma Katherine: How One Womans Brokenness Became Hope for Ugandas Children

Katherine Hines is a missionary who lives out her calling passionately. Everything in her life is centered on pouring out the love of Jesus to all the children and to all the staff working alongside her in Uganda. She sees people of all ages the way Jesus sees them. She sees individuals in need of a touch from Christ and in need of another chance. She embodies what Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote: To love a person means to see him the way God intends him to be. Katherine knows Jesus good intention for everybody regardless of what their present circumstances are, and she invests herself in making those intentions reality. As you read this book, I trust that youll experience how exciting life is when we, like Katherine, dare to live with a constant yes to Jesus calling on our lives no matter how crazy His calling may sound.

Torben Riis Jensen

Missions Pastor, Bear Valley Church, Lakewood, Colorado

I have known Katherine Hines for nearly thirty years. I recruited her as one of my first Sunday School teachers when I served as a childrens pastor. At that time, she taught my son, Nate, in her four-year-old class. She told me then she wanted to do something great for our Lord. Later when she went to Uganda to start Hines Ugandan Ministries, I had no doubt her passionate faith would carry her. In the twenty years she has sacrificially served in Kamonkoli, countless children have been provided for and have found faith in Jesus Christ. My wife and I personally support children in her ministry. Through the years, I have led three short-term mission teams to Uganda, and each team was inspired in their faith as their eyes were opened to the extreme poverty in our world. Katherines remarkable story will inspire and renew your faith.

Pastor Mike Lundberg

Church on the Hill, Montrose, Colorado

I have never met anyone who has worked harder to provide for the orphans, vulnerable children, and the widows. Hines is a woman with integrity whose heart overflows with love for the hurting children and, above all, for our God. She has done a remarkable job of helping and caring with a compassionate heart for the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the people. In addition to her tremendous testimony of resisting the African bugs, mosquitos, flies, and the diseases that come with them, she is the girl who never left. I am thrilled to be part of Hines Ugandan Ministries.

Charles Magale

Senior Pastor, Kamonkoli Presbyterian Church

Assistant Director of Hines Ugandan Ministries

I have known Momma Katherine Hines since 1998. Her extensive and great work towards helping orphans and widows in Uganda has been manifest for the last twenty years. I am a beneficiary and highly recommend her book for whoever will be reading it!

Evangelist Nelson Duchu

Founder of Revival Harvest Christian Ministries,

Evangelical Missions International

I came to know Katherine Hines when I was six years old in one of the villages in a place called Kamonkoli, Uganda. Through Gods grace, hard work, and the cooperation from the sponsors, I was able to go to school, and I attained my Bachelors degree in environmental science. Thereafter, I was granted the opportunity to serve these wonderful children as I work for the ministry in the child sponsorship department. I advise, council, guide, and direct these children to make wonderful choices that will help as they face the challenges of the day throughout their lifetime until they go to be with the Creator. My dear brothers and sisters and all well-wishers who will get the opportunity to sell, read, or buy this book, I request you to do one thing for the author. If you can help raise funds for her, please do it; but if not, I kindly request you to pray for her. There are many grains in the field, but the people harvesting are few; therefore, I kindly appeal to you to join hands in the harvest in the jungle. May the blessings of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Dison Bumba

Former sponsored child who is now serving in the ministry

Everyday life and poverty in rural Uganda can prove challenging and void of hope for a future. Children have no guarantee of life beyond each day, as they struggle for basic subsistence and witness disease, corruption, and depravity circumstances into which they were born. As an overcomer of life-impacting challenges of her own, Katherine Hines answered her calling to reach out to these innocent children and the community of Kamonkoli, Uganda, to give them a future hope through Jesus Christ. Children, once without hope, are overcoming these circumstances, growing up to end the cycle of poverty and despair for their families, and becoming godly leaders for their families, community, and country. Through the pages of this book, Katherine shares her inspiring adventure and the transformed lives of these overcomers.

Cindy Stutheit

Home Office Administrator, Hines Ugandan Ministries

They Call Me
Momma Katherine

How One Womans Brokenness Became Hope for Ugandas Children

Katherine Hines

With Sheila Wilkinson

I dedicate this book to my best Friend, my soul mate, my everything Jesus Christ, and to all the children He has given me in Uganda. I love you all!

Contents

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Dear Lord, hear my prayer and give ear to my words

And know that I care from the depths of my heart

For those without hope and without God.

Please, Lord, consider the children of Uganda.

Oh, God to be feared and yet always near,

The God of all nations and King of all kings,

Fill them with love, some joy and some laughter,

The laughter that comes from thy Holy Spirit.

I know in my heart just how great thou art

And hold dear the truth of thy living words.

I ask you to share them with these precious souls

And guide them from sadness to hope evermore.

Bless these dear children whose hearts have been broken;

Their burdens are heavy, no family consoles them.

They need tender mercy and thy loving power

To come to their bedsides and heal them this hour.

Give them each day a bread everlasting,

Show them the way through hope of salvation.

These children need love to fill up their souls,

So make them complete in your loving arms.

Oh Lord, hear my prayer for the children of Uganda.

Foreword

G od calls ordinary people to do extraordinary things through His power and His equipping. Meeting such a person impacts an individual in ways that are beyond description.

My long-time friend, Katherine Hines, is such a woman, and her commitment to the children in Uganda is contagious. Hers is a story of heartache, struggle, sacrifice, and remarkable victory for Gods kingdom that will touch your life as it has mine. God gave Katherine a deep love for the children of Africa, especially those in Kamonkoli, Uganda. He made it clear to her that she was not to just visit this village and tell of Jesus but to live in Kamonkoli, showing Gods love in practical ways on a daily basis.

Kamonkoli is not a village supported by any of the mission boards, so Katherine was on her own but certainly not by herself. She knows what it is like to be in a strange country, living in a primitive shack, eating unusual food, and drinking local water. She knows what it is like to hear a variety of languages and look different from everyone else. She knows what it is like for people to be suspicious of her and at the same time curious about her. She knows the difference between being lonely and being alone.