Katherine is founder and Uganda Director of Hines Ugandan Ministries which she founded in 1999 and has ministered there since 1995. The ministry has experienced tremendous growth! Katherine left a successful Colorado professional business career at age 36 after overcoming a series of tragedies, including 3 boyfriends dying tragically, to serve the impoverished and distressed children of Uganda – by some measures the poorest nation on earth and a country where former dictator Idi Amin butchered an estimated 300,000 people. Most of the now 1000’s of children she and her team interact with have at least one parent who has or died from AIDS. Katherine has been a fearless evangelist leading many to Christ from witchcraft, polygamy, poverty and Islam. A Christian school serving 300 has been established, a vibrant medical clinic, a craft enterprise, child sponsorship programs of nearly 250 and an Awana program reaching more than 1200 kids a year. Katherine has become the sole foster parent of 34 kids which now include a doctor, nurse, World Bank employee, pastor and social worker . . .. Now you know why she is called “Momma Katherine!”