It began with a promise
to one mother.

25 YEARS AGO

A mother's greatest fear.
A promise to answer it.

It started with $100 and a photograph. It became a promise to a mother who asked the question every parent fears. Twenty-five years later, we’re still answering it, one child at a time.

"I Never Planned to Start an Organization. I Planned to Keep a Promise."

Since 2000, the promise has kept growing.
Here's how it grew, where it stands, and where it's headed.

Learning What It Takes

Twenty-five years of learning what children need.

It began with one little girl Mary Ann sponsored, then another child, then fifty, and later, Grace’s two sons. They were the first of thousands of Ugandan children we would walk with, many orphaned or left vulnerable by the AIDS crisis. We learned early that school alone wasn’t enough. Children needed food, healthcare, and adults who believed in them.

So we learned to give all of it.

Into The Classroom

More children, known by name.

Twenty-five years have taught us what a child needs most: an adult who knows them and believes in them. Now we're bringing that into more classrooms.

Our own trained mentors work inside local schools, leading classroom sessions and small groups and walking more closely with the students who need it most. Sponsorship places a child in the strongest school we can find. Our mentors bring support into the school a child is already in.

We believe a child who is mentored and equipped can outgrow their circumstances. Now we're measuring it.

This work is made possible by the Grace Fund.

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Living Proof

The children we walked with are now leading in their community.

Our alumni are nurses, teachers, business owners, and mentors, and some now serve on our own team in Uganda. One of them leads it. They are the clearest answer we have to whether this works.

Today, every student we walk with is placed in the strongest school available, with at least two meals a day, a mentor, and care when they need it. In 2025, we walked with 657 students, and 131 of them graduated from the program.

Programs change. The promise doesn't.

Here's what we hold to, whatever the work looks like next.

Our
Mission

Children of Grace walks with Uganda's most vulnerable children from the classroom to community leadership — ensuring they are nourished, mentored, educated, protected, and prepared to lead — because we believe transformation takes consistency, and we have built our work to last.

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Our
Vision

A Uganda where every vulnerable child has the consistent presence — of food, of care, of education, of mentorship — to grow into the leader their community needs.

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Our
Values

Twenty-five years have taught us what we won’t compromise on. Every child carries a worth no circumstance can take away. We open doors; we don’t rescue. Surviving was never the goal, so we hold ourselves to the standard every child deserves. We stay faithful to one community, caring for the whole child and measuring what lasts. And when something isn’t working, we own it and work to make it right.

What We Hold To

Promises are easy to make. Keeping one for twenty-five years is harder.
The proof is a person.

25 YEARS LATER

Meet Zahara
and the grace that raised her.

Once a sponsored child.
Now, our CEO.

Before Children of Grace had a name, Mary Ann McCoy’s church handed out $100 and asked each person to use it to help someone. Mary Ann went looking, and it led her to a little girl in Uganda named Zahara. Now she leads Children of Grace.

She once stood where many children stand today, full of potential and short on opportunity. Because someone chose to invest faithfully, she gained education, stability, and the opportunity to lead the mission.

She is not the answer. She is the living proof.

When you remove obstacles and build with consistency, children rise into influence.

Today, she runs the very mission that once changed her trajectory.

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Zahara's story

Zahara's story transformed with one sponsor.

Every child's can.

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Your audience has heard plenty of mission talks.
They haven't heard this one: a CEO who was once the child in the story, speaking about what it takes to stay in one place for twenty-five years, refuse to settle for survival-level care, and watch the children you walked with grow up to lead.

Churches, conferences, schools, and leadership gatherings
leave with more than a moment of inspiration. They leave knowing what faithfulness looks like when it's measured in years.

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Education. Nutrition. Medical care. Mentorship. Career guidance. Every child we serve is supported by a network of programs working together. Explore the model that's transformed thousands of lives over 25 years.

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Meet The Team

It began with a promise to one mother.

25 YEARS AGO

A mother's greatest fear. A promise to answer it.

Since 2000, the promise has kept growing. Here's how it grew, where it stands, and where it's headed.

Learning What It Takes

Programs change. The promise doesn't.

Here's what we hold to, whatever the work looks like next.

Our Mission

Our Vision

Our Values

Promises are easy to make. Keeping one for twenty-five years is harder. The proof is a person.