From Kittanning PA (Pittsburgh)The rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church may be getting ready to celebrate Christmas at her parish, but her heart is focused on the other side of the world.
The Reverend Kathy Lalonde is preparing to take a team that includes local individuals to assist an orphanage that she co-founded in Hoima, Uganda, a country in East Africa.
Appearing on the Family-Life Sunday Night local TV show, Lalonde share how she got involved.
“It was 1991. That was about the time that the AIDS epidemic in East Africa was becoming known to the world. The orphans were raising orphans. Orphans were dying. They were taking in orphans. They couldn’t even feed their own children. That is when the Mustard Seed Babies’ Home eventually was born. I raised the money, and went. I invited two friends in November 1991, did the research to start it, and in June 1994, the doors of the Mustard Seed Babies Home opened for the first time.”
More here-
http://www.kittanningpaper.com/2012/12/12/local-episcopal-priest-helps-orphanage-in-uganda/32168
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