The Rev. Dr. Stephen Hayner was the president of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Dr. Hayner told a beautiful story about a young teacher he met several years ago in Uganda by the name of Christine Nakalema.

Christine grew up in a rural village in Bokeka. When she was five years old and her sister Harriet was seven and her little brother was four, their parents both died within three months of each other of AIDS. The three siblings lived for nearly two years on their own. They had no parents, only the food they could scavenge from the fertile Ugandan countryside. There was no one to care for them. Often they huddled in the corner of their mud hut because their roof couldn’t hold out the rain.

Why wasn’t there anyone to care for them? It was because most of the adults in thei…