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For those who may not know me my name is Bailey Fore and I am a 23-year-old single missionary currently serving in Uganda for the next two years. I am a born and raised Texas girl from the DFW metroplex. I recently graduated last May from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor with a bachelor's in Christian Studies and a minor in Sociology. Below shares a little more about my life and what I am doing! 

 

Why Missions?

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    What do you want to be when you grow up? This is the question everyone has or will face at least once in their life. For me, this question always brought fear and anxiety when asked especially as I got older into high school. When I was younger my teachers, friends, or parents would ask this big question and I would see most kids answer saying “doctor” “lawyer” “police officer”. The thought of being any of these as a child was never a desire of mine so when asked I could simply and proudly tell them a “mermaid”. So the reason for telling you this is that even from a young age I have never really understood what I wanted to do in my life. 

    Fast forward to High School I still did not have a real clue to what I wanted to be in my life. It wasn’t until I started going to a church and being involved that slowly a passion had grown. As a new believer, I loved the church. I loved to go, I loved to be there and was any time the doors were open. In my youth group, there was a young woman who inspired me to be who I am today. She was the girl's youth minister and was incredible at her job. She loved on girls, talked to them, taught, and was a huge role model to what being a Godly woman looked like. As I grew up in the youth she willingly took me under her wing pushing me and molding me to be a girl leader in our youth group. She would let me help plan events in the youth and let me lead bible studies. She taught me the importance of ministry and how to love people. It was during this time that I realized that I wanted to be just like her. I wanted to be there for a Bailey out there who is lost and is needing guidance. I wanted to be there for girls like she was there for me. It was the first time I had found a passion that was so clear. I knew then the Lord had called me to ministry. 

    My senior year of high school approached and the big decision on where and what I wanted to do was coming. I knew that ministry was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life and was ready to. I had no idea at the time that you could go to school for ministry and once I found that out I was sold and knew this is what the Lord has been preparing to do. Therefore I went to the University of Mary Hardin Baylor, had the best four years of my life, and graduated with a bachelor's in Christian Studies. 

 

Why Uganda?

 

   I would like to say that I found Uganda and this opportunity however that would be a lie because the truth is Uganda found me. Throughout college, the Lord had shown me a passion for teen girls. I was blessed with the opportunity to pour and invest into the youth girls of my local church and see that passion grow. However, throughout college, I did not know what I would end up doing with that. I knew I had this passion for girls' ministry but could not find a place to use it post-grad. I prayed and asked the Lord for many months and years throughout college what he was wanting me to do. I did not feel peace about anything. I didn’t feel peace about staying in Texas, didn’t feel peace about going into higher education. I had been to church one Sunday and it was what my church called Global Missions Sunday. The missions pastor got up and had preached a sermon and said something that changed my life forever. He said, “ if you have ever felt called to go, then go. Because there are a lot more people in this world that are willing to stay than are willing to go”. And it hit me at that moment sitting in the pew of my college home church that I needed to look into missions. I had never thought I would be a missionary. I didn’t grow up thinking that I would be someone good enough to be able to go across the world and share the gospel with the unreached. I thought that was great for other people but did not ever think that was great for me. However, sitting in the pew a realization had hit me. I never allowed the Lord to let me desire missions because I was too insecure. Here I was a 22-year-old girl, single with a heart to serve the Lord and a passion for travel and culture. I remember asking myself “ why not go?”. Why not sacrifice my life to go somewhere to share the same love that comes from a God who sacrificed everything for me?. So then the search was on to where I was going to go. I had looked into some organizations and found myself applying to an organization called Go Cor. Go Cor in simple terms is a match-making service that partners your degree and passions with an organization that has that need for your gift. After meeting and applying and looking at placements offered the only placement for girls ministry was for an organization that is a part of United World Missions called Hope58. So while others may have had several placements offered to them it was clear the Lord was sending me to this place, Uganda, Africa. 

 

What will I be doing? 

 

   I will be working for a ministry that runs a program called New Life Skills Center. This center is located in Blessa a village about an hour and a half from where as a team we stay part-time in a city called Jinja. We live in the village part-time as well while working at the center doing ministry. The plan is to move out to the village full time once construction of our homes is complete. Right now we live in a small temporary home about 15 minutes from the center. At this center, young vulnerable teen girls come to get an education, vocational skills and are discipled. I will mainly be teaching two bible classes a week, a physical education class, helping the drama program, and working on discipleship between our girls and teachers. 

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Meet my Team! 

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Matt and Shelley Actis- Team leaders 

Katherine Bondonno

Joya Schneider