2025 Mid-Year Report
GENERAL MINISTRY UPDATE
Untold is stepping into a season of change in 2025, welcoming each opportunity that brings us closer to embracing and equipping our clients to live a life beyond AIDS. This year, we officially graduated our first South African cohort, graduated our 50,000th client, and increased capacity on both our U.S. and African teams.
As we reach the midpoint of our 18th year of ministry, we are more ready than ever to walk alongside our clients on their path to flourishing. The Untold model of ministry is unique. We search for our clients and find them in their greatest time of need. Once enrolled in the program, clients are offered integrated care that addresses their physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic health.
2024 WRAP-UP
Closeout of AIDS SAID
The beginning of this year marked the official closeout of our 2022-2024 AIDS SAID Campaign. When it comes to the thousands of men and women living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, the weight of their diagnosis often speaks louder than hope, telling them they are unworthy or defined by their status. Through AIDS SAID, we championed a different message: HIV does not dictate who they are or what their future holds.
When we first launched this campaign, we were quickly humbled by how God moved through the generosity of our partners. As a result, we crossed campaign milestones, including expanding into South Africa, securing land for our permanent campus in Nairobi, and graduating 25,000 additional clients. Raising $24 million through this campaign is a powerful reminder of what’s possible through the power of community and collective action.
PROGRAM UPDATES
50,000th Graduate
Q1 was filled with celebration as we ushered our 50,000th graduate across the finish line at Kongowea Center in Mombasa, Kenya. This milestone represents innumerable hours of work, dedication, and intentionality from our staff, as well as the clients who continuously choose their own healing despite the barriers of stigma and material poverty. Our 50,000th graduate, Masha, represents 50,000 unique clients over the last 18 years of ministry. “I am grateful that [Untold] has loved us and shown us how to live our lives to the fullest potential,” Masha says.
South Africa Update
Home to over 62 million people, 12 official languages, and unparalleled biodiversity, South Africa is a country rich in culture and natural beauty. Yet, more than three decades after the end of apartheid, many communities still face deep-rooted challenges, particularly when it comes to access to healthcare. South Africa carries the world’s highest burden of HIV, with more than 7.5 million people living with the virus. Through Untold’s integrated care model, we’re working to address the complex needs of this population and create pathways to lasting health and hope.
Zandspruit Graduation
In May 2025, Untold’s first cohort of clients in South Africa, regionally known as “beneficiaries,” completed their nine-month journey through the program. We operate in this community in partnership with the Community Church of Zandspruit, under the leadership of Pastor Sipho Magagula.
Partnership Update
As we continue to expand our partnerships at Untold, we have focused on working with world-class, values-aligned organizations. One example is Kijabe Hospital, a mission hospital on the outskirts of Nairobi that provides compassionate healthcare and top-tier medical training. This partnership will serve Untold on two levels:
Staff Training: In 2024, the US and African leadership team at Untold met with the clinical team that runs Kijabe’s training programs. We just signed a partnership agreement that makes Kijabe clinicians available as mentors and clinical supervisors to small groups of Untold field staff. The Kijabe team will conduct an annual sensitization training with our field teams to ensure we have access to the latest best practices and resources for serving men and women living with HIV.
Referrals: In addition to training and equipping our full-time team members, Kijabe has agreed to take complicated case referrals at a highly reduced cost. Center staff across East Africa can now refer and cover the cost of care for clients who need acute physical and mental health interventions.
Georgia State University Partnership
Untold’s partnership with Georgia State University (GSU) was established to strengthen the nutritional impact of Untold’s food package program through a collaborative research initiative. Over the 2024-2025 school year, Untold’s programs team worked directly with a GSU nutrition master’s student to help us think innovatively about the nutrition component of our program. The project included a comprehensive literature review, analysis of Untold’s current food packages, and an examination of the specific nutritional needs of Untold’s client population—specifically, individuals living with HIV/AIDS—drawing on academic literature and internal Untold reports. This project helped generate contextually relevant, evidence-based recommendations for improving the nutritional value of food packages and exploring innovative delivery models to better support clients’ physical health.
Impact Trips
Throughout our ministry, Impact Trips have been one of the most meaningful ways to connect partners and supporters to the heart of our work. An Impact Trip offers participants an opportunity to engage with our team members in Africa, spend time with clients, and gain a deeper understanding of our programs through on-the-ground connections and relationship-building. Unlike traditional service trips centered on projects, Impact Trips invite participants to set aside expectations of “doing” and instead embrace the transformative work of being present, encouraging space to reflect on their relationship with God, themselves, others, and the world around them.
This year, we’ve hosted a range of individuals across Africa—from new and long-term partners to students and staff from Landmark Christian School and Fellowship Christian School. With more trips slated for the second half of the year, the list of participants continues to grow.
TEAM UPDATES
New Team Members
To support our ministry’s growth and deepen our impact, we have expanded our team, welcoming new talent in both Africa and the U.S. These additions will strengthen our capacity as we strive for continued excellence, transparency, and strategic direction. In East Africa, Josephine Mwangi will oversee our spiritual and counseling initiatives as the TA Spiritual + Counseling, providing strategic guidance, technical expertise, and capacity-building support.
“I’m excited about mentoring field staff to ensure that spiritual and emotional care is delivered with cultural sensitivity, theological integrity, and observance of ethical standards. Most of all, I look forward to seeing lives transformed when individuals and communities experience healing, hope, and restoration through holistic care that addresses both the spiritual, emotional, economic, and physical dimensions of well-being.”
Stateside, we expanded our operations team with two new hires, Airrion Blackstock and Abby Armstrong. Airrion will support our U.S. operations as Controller, leading the charge in stewarding our financial systems.
“I have admired Untold and the organization’s work for a number of years. The compassion-driven zeal to draw near to those suffering from HIV/AIDS and care for them as whole people seems incredibly well-aligned with Jesus’ philosophy of ministry. So, I am simply following Him here.”
Abby will serve as Untold's first Experience Coordinator. This role is dedicated to planning events and organizing impact trips to Eastern and Southern Africa, offering firsthand opportunities to experience the work of our ministry up close.
“While my heart was immediately drawn to the mission and vision of Untold, what really excited me was the integrated, holistic nature of the care we provide our clients. All of the work that’s done, whether it’s face-to-face care or behind-the-scenes spreadsheets, comes from the authentic belief that every person is created in the image of God and is therefore worthy of living a flourishing life. I am so honored and grateful to get to play a small role in people getting to walk in that freedom.”
Untold Interns
To support growing departmental needs, Untold recently collaborated with two interns. Davidson Mobley worked alongside our programs team during the spring. Davidson recently completed his M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Richmont Graduate University and a clinical internship at East Atlanta Counseling, thus bringing an additional clinical perspective to our work.
Foundational Helping Skills
2025 marked Untold’s second Foundational Helping Skills (FHS) training across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. As part of our commitment to ensuring our staff feel equipped and confident in their ability to navigate all client situations, these competency-based trainings focus on core counseling skills to deliver exceptional, client-centered care. Last year’s training centered on 13 core counseling skills, while this year’s training focused on five skills that were identified as the greatest areas of growth for our team. Dr. Rosco Kasujja, a Ugandan Clinical Psychologist, returned to lead all training sessions for our 314 full-time staff.
TO OUR PARTNERS + FRIENDS,
We are able to continue this work and bear witness to stories of transformation through the commitment and generosity of people like you.
Thank you.