In Uganda, desperate families were once served by the grace of a Virginia missionary who opened a home to save severely malnourished children. Today, the Ugandan mission no longer exists after a campaign from woke activists shut down the clinic, in large part because the American running it was white.
Renee Bach became the subject of a three-part HBO docuseries out in September chronicling the controversy that surrounded the nonprofit she started in 2009 at the age of 19 called “Serving His Children” (SHC). Bach explains in the documentary how her Christian faith inspired her to move to Uganda to run the mission center.
“I had never wanted to be like a ‘missionary,’” she said. But a sermon at the end of high school from someone named Clayton King compelled her to travel across the Atlantic on a mission trip to Uganda. The documentary aired audio from that sermon.
“If tonight you’re tired of playing it safe and you’re tired of being predictable and you wanna say, ‘God, I’m gonna go wherever you send me.’ … We are aware that there is a world in need,” King said.
“I honestly don’t know what came over me because it was just like, so overwhelming,” said Bach, who went on to join a volunteer program in 2007 that included other teen girls. Two years later, Bach was opening her own nonprofit to serve Ugandan children in need.
But according to the documentary, what started simply as a feeding
