Kinsey and Jordan are now in Ethiopia for Jordan’s final rotation of his fourth year of medical school. They spent February in Uganda serving with Restoration Gateway.
In 2007, Dr. Tim McCall and his wife Janice followed God’s call and left their medical practice in Waco, Texas to establish a mission in Uganda. On 500 acres on the southern bank of the Nile River, a clinic, a school, a church, and several structures that house over 100 orphans bless a section of the world that has been brutalized by war and disease. On the northern side of the Nile the notorious Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army have terrorized the nation. It is estimated that over the past two and a half decades 30,000-60,000 children have been kidnapped to fight as child soldiers in the LRA. Though many believe Kony is now in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the citizens of northern Uganda still live in fear.
There are 2.5 million orphans in Uganda. One in every five children between the ages of 6 and 12 have no parents. Kinsey and Jordan came to volunteer in the clinic, but soon Kinsey was given the responsibility of reading to children each day and Jordan was named soccer coach. Kinsey is pictured with a baby that had a difficult entry into the world. She and an African nurse had to work on the baby for over five minutes before he began breathing on his own.
On their last day, Dr. Tim asked that anyone who had been blessed by Uncle Jordan and Auntie Kinsey to gather around them in prayer. Many children laid hands on them and prayed.
Meeting doctors, nurses, and educators from different parts of the world serving children and adults inspired Kinsey and Jordan greatly. The name of the school is Oaks of Righteousness (see Scripture below), as it is believed that God intends to transform the weak and poor into mighty men and women of faith. Kinsey told of the plan on the base of keeping only 10% of the produce from their gardens while giving away 90% to the surrounding communities. God’s Kingdom takes what the world says is ‘ruined’ and ‘impossible’ and establishes ‘hope’ and ‘life’ on the solid Rock of Jesus Christ.
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion – to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.” Isaiah 61:1-3