A member of Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA), McCune has organized a program that will focus on several works in that African nation.
Jessica McCune believes the world is small enough to reach out and touch someone in Uganda. A member of Grace Presbyterian Church, McCune has organized a program that will focus on several works in that African nation.
The event, “God’s World Made Small,” will take place Tuesday evening at Grace Presbyterian Church and will feature representatives from Good Samaritan’s Children’s Sponsorship Program and several others…including BeadforLife, a project of Ugandan women who make jewelry from strips of recycled paper.
The women use the proceeds to pay for HIV medications, their children’s schooling and rent for a small home with a garden…
McCune, who traveled to Uganda with her husband, Jim, four years ago, said she recently learned about BeadforLife when someone spoke about it during a storytelling session in Tennessee.
“It was very inspiring to see women who had endured genocide and oppression and violence, that they could come and start a life for themselves,” McCune said. “So I went on the website and I bought beads.”
McCune ended up with a dining room table strewn with multi-colored beads. She started with a $3,300 inventory and has already sold half of the jewelry to help the Ugandan women.
She’ll talk about the outreach during Tuesday’s program.
“I just think when the big world gets small, it unites all of us, and that’s what gives us the energy to go on every day, and the hope to go on,” she said.
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