Get to Know Katy Wright

Ministry Description

To train and equip the local church (including its children) and its community to be Servants of Christ.
To gather spiritual fruit that may be credited to my prayer and financial supporters’ accounts. (Philippians 4:17b)

Learn more about the ministry in Uganda.

About Katy

At my church in 2000, I thought I made a decision for salvation but looking back, I realized I hadn’t really chosen for it to make a difference in my life. Now I know that I was truly saved in May of 2006 when my dad asked me if I wanted to be saved. I immediately said “yes” because I knew I was missing something in my life – and that was the person of Jesus Christ. During the next couple of years while in my teens, I started doubting my salvation, so I talked with my youth pastor’s wife many times in the next several weeks. She helped me understand that I had already been genuinely saved and helped me gain a strong reassurance of my salvation.
It was then that I dedicated my life to Christ. I was later baptized in obedience to the Lord’s command and to demonstrate to others my desire to follow Christ wherever He would lead. I did not know where the Lord would take me, but I had Africa on my mind, since my great grandparents were pioneer missionaries starting in 1937 and served 40 years on that continent. Also, I have several other relatives and friends who have been missionaries in Africa. I heard their missionary presentations and read their prayer letters but now my own stories of God’s work in Africa can be made as I am “On Mission for Him” to Uganda with Word of Life Fellowship International (WOL). I had the opportunity to complete a two-and-a-half-year internship with WOL in Uganda from 2018 through mid-2020. I taught in the WOL elementary school, worked in the chapel’s children’s program, mentored some of the women Bible Institute students, served in the community outreach programs, and helped in women’s ministries. I am very thankful for that internship. It was a great learning experience. There were some hard times, but God has taught me that He is always with me and that I can trust Him with my life. (Jeremiah 29:11.)
During my senior year at Bryan College, I attended a WOL mission conference in which I was approved to be a WOL intern in Uganda. I am currently working in a retail store while I rely on the Lord and work to raise support to go back as a career missionary to Uganda. As of October 2022, I thank the Lord that I have 100% of my required support for my set-up funds and that the Lord is providing about 60% of the monthly needs for my field ministries.
God led me to two years of study at the Word of Life Bible Institute after high school to give me increased learning from the Bible and to show me the spiritual needs of the world. At a Word of Life mission conference I sensed God’s call in my life to overseas ministry. My internship in Uganda further solidified my heart’s desire to make missions a life career and WOL confirmed that by appointing me as a vocational missionary in January 2021. God showed me that the harvest field is ripe, and He has chosen me to be a laborer for Him in that African nation. (Matthew 9:37-38)

Titus 2:3-5 (3) The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; (4) That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, (5) To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Contact Information

kawright@wol.org
Home Address-13545 102nd Terr. Largo, FL 33774
WOL Fellowship Address- Word of Life Uganda, PO Box 600, Schroon Lake, NY 12870
Email- kawright@wol.org