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Our Mission
We work alongside Ugandans to nurture deep relationships and enrich communities through faith-based business training.
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Our Story
The Vision Behind Kindred Exchange
Kindred Exchange was founded with a passion to reshape the way missions are being done globally—focusing on authenticity, relationship, and mutual growth. Our story began in 2020 when co-founders, Lauren Pinkston and Abby Littlefield, began envisioning an organization that could combine their shared passion for missional business and relational global partnerships.
Lauren spent five years in Southeast Asia, where her family’s life and faith were transformed by the local Christian community. During that time, she helped with the launch businesses that employed survivors of human trafficking, demonstrating how entrepreneurship could create lasting change. Abby’s time in Ethiopia, shadowing missional business owners, further fueled this vision of using business as a tool for Kingdom impact.
Together, they saw how business could become a catalyst for sustainable development and deeper relational ties across cultures. This is the heartbeat of Kindred Exchange—restoring God’s design for the Global Church, where co-laboring to fulfill the Great Commission brings about transformation for all involved.
Where We Work
Jinja, Uganda
In 2021, Kindred Exchange was invited to facilitate a year-long business training program for 11 Ugandan entrepreneurs. This initiative became the starting point for our work in Uganda. Since then, we’ve expanded our programming, providing faith-based business and financial education for Kingdom-minded entrepreneurs. Our approach is about coming alongside communities—building authentic, cross-cultural relationships that drive mutual growth and collective flourishing.
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Key Terms We Value
Missions of Mutuality
We believe missions should be mutually beneficial, where both sides—those giving and receiving—are equally transformed.
Global North/South
We use the terms Global North (developed nations) and Global South (developing nations) rather than '3rd world country'.
Under-Resourced
Because we believe there is enough wealth in the world for all people, we avoid the word 'poor' and rather point to our responsibility to share wealth with others.
Copowerment
Beyond empowerment, we desire to join our skills and resources with the skills and resources of others for mutual imapct.
Companions
Companions walk beside one another, not above. These cross-cultural relationships foster mutual growth and shared impact.
Economic Justice
Private enterprise can be a tool to promote safe employment, provide dignified work, and prevent human exploitation when the people of God practice good business.
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