Lovingkindness
and truth.

It began with a Facebook friend request from a man in Budaka, Uganda. That connection grew into years of sharing prayer requests back and forth — and, in time, into a desire to go and see for ourselves, to find ways we could help more.

God worked on our hearts until we couldn’t stop asking one question: how can we help? We are not wealthy. In truth, we often struggle to make ends meet, and there are months we don’t know how the next bill will be paid. But a thought took hold of us and would not let go — that we worry about paying for electricity, air conditioning, or gas for the car, while people in Uganda struggle for mattresses, beds, clean water, and even food each day. It made our own problems feel small, and it pressed the question deeper: how can we help?

So we planned a trip to see the need for ourselves. And Hesed-Aletheia Ministries was born — but not a traditional “feed the children” ministry.

We grew up watching the commercials: “$1 a day can feed a child in Africa.” Fifty years later, we are still raising money to feed children in Africa. How can that change? We don’t claim to have it all figured out — but we know it starts with the Gospel and with knowing God.

We don’t have it all figured out — but we know it starts with the Gospel and knowing God.

We discovered that people are prone to false teaching and predatory pastors because they do not have God’s Word for themselves. This was the heart of the Reformation. So we committed to bringing heart-language Bibles — Scripture in people’s own language — to Uganda.

We also found that many who call themselves pastors are charlatans. So we committed to training pastors in truth.

And we found that most of a congregation can barely provide their own basic needs — which means giving to the church to fund any outreach simply isn’t realistic. What people need are quality jobs that bring dignity and resources. So the business-development ministry was born: we committed to raising business capital that will employ people at a level where they, too, can be generous.

Then came a hard turn. We discovered that the people we had first met in Budaka were not who they claimed to be. The man who reached out to us was a charlatan — a scam artist. We were devastated. We questioned our mission and what God was calling us to do. Do we throw in the towel, or press forward?

We decided to do what we try to do every day: Fully Rely On God. We pressed forward. God had called us into this ministry — not to support a single person. So we found a few trusted contacts, made new friends in Uganda, and moved our starting point to Masaka. There we found Agape Children’s Center and Agape Christian Center.

God was moving and working the entire time. He had not abandoned us, nor His ministry. In the end, it doesn’t matter how we got here — what matters is what God will do now that we are here. We believe He will light the way, and that He will do big things that can only be explained by His effort, not ours.

Hesed-Aletheia Ministries has been launched — and through it, FROGlife was born.