Dr Josephine Kyambadde believes that God saved her life for a bigger purpose, and that was her turning point. After surviving cancer in 1991, Kyambadde, based in London, UK, started a journey which has evolved into many global charity missions.

Together with her husband, Peter Kyambadde, they co-founded Latter Rain Ministries in Edmonton, North London and later also cofounded the Christ Centered Marrieds Ministry that has seen many marriages restored and love rekindled.

Twelve years ago, she started Balanced Life Family with a mission to inspire people globally, in their diverse capacities, to lead an equitable life that will make them healthy, physically and spiritually.

Her new global network has recruited many members, especially in Uganda, the United States, UK, UAE, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Tanzania, among others.

Kyambadde

Darkest days

Her husband was the first to move to the UK, in search for greener pasture. On April 2, 1991, she joined him, excited for the new beginning and anticipating many opportunities.  However, Kyambadde’s stay was characterised with trials, misfortune, suffering, pain and stress because it was the same year that she was diagnosed with cancer.

Her friends thought she would die and her relatives rejected her. Even her marriage got challenges and work got stressful.

Falling sick

Kyambadde says: “One morning, I woke up feeling very ill. I could not walk and my temperature was high. We had to call an ambulance.” She was given treatment and later discharged. She thought everything was fi ne, but the worst was yet to come.

At the time, she had just secured a job at In-House Stores in London. Back home, her husband had announced that he wanted to return to Uganda, for a job opportunity. She did not like the idea and tried to persuade him otherwise, in vain.

Josephine And Peter Kyambadde

They had a heated argument and, days later, her husband moved back to Uganda, anyway. This was about the same time that she noticed a swelling in her armpit. She thought it was connected to the illness she had just recovered from. On-going for a check-up at a nearby clinic, she was advised to go to Royal Free Hospital in London. She says: “I was diagnosed with cancer of the glands. It was the shock of my life.

The doctor’s words had hit me like a tonne of bricks and I nearly collapsed.” Kyambadde was admitted in the same hospital in July 1991, with fears that she would die in less than three weeks. She was worried about how her three children would manage without her. Lillian was three years old, Derrick was two and Davis was about six months.

The doctors had recommended surgery, followed by chemotherapy in an attempt to save the deteriorating situation. After her first week in the hospital, two of her friends, Prisca and Sarah, visited her. They found her admiring a small insect full of life crawling around the hospital room wall.

“Tears were welling up in my eyes as I admired that insect. I had no ability to move around like that insect.” she recalls.

New day comes

In the hospital, Sarah convinced Kyambadde to go to church and pray for the operation that she was about to undergo. They requested for authorisation from the hospital administration and they went to a church in Waterloo, Central London.

After praise and worship, she says she felt new hope and strength. She went back to the hospital and the operation was conducted the next day. Another test was later carried out and the results were expected in three days.

“It was a Wednesday morning, when the doctor came to my room with the results. She told me: ‘Josephine guess what? This is a miracle, there is no trace of cancer in your body.’ I could not believe what I was hearing,” she says. While some people praised the doctors for the work well done, Josephine, praised God for delivering a miracle at the right time.

As life went on, everything else started falling back into place, starting with her marriage. Her husband was away for four years, but he later went back to the UK and they are now enjoying a happy marriage.

She says: “Looking back, I see that it was all God’s plan, because while he was away, he also cemented his relationship with the Lord. Today, he is a powerful man of God, a true leader, a man of integrity and a loving husband.”

Kyambadde Believed God Saved Her Life So That She Could Help Other

Making people’s lives better

After some time, Kyambadde got inspired by changing people’s lives, physically and spiritually. According to her, this was the ultimate reason why the Lord saved her life. She says: “We do not live for the sake of serving our lives, but we live for others. We live to make other people’s lives better and, in so doing, we are blessed.”

She started doing some church work and is currently a senior pastor at Latter Rain Ministries in the UK. She later started Balanced Life Family, a ministry dedicated to changing people’s lives globally.

They reach out to the needy in Uganda, as well as offering shelter to the homeless. In March 2017, she introduced the ministry to the rest of the world through social media networks. Kyambadde visited Sanga village in Wakiso district, and helped the youth who were drug addicts and robbers become responsible citizens through counselling.

She also organised a free medical outreach for the underprivileged in five villages – including Matugga, Nakukuba and Kungu, among others, in Wakiso.

For the past four years, Kyambadde has been providing under-privileged children with school essentials and offering sanitary pads to adolescent school girls. She also started a sports project called Matta Football Team. 

While officially launching Balanced Life Family USA in February 2018, in Boston, Massachusetts, she said: “We have helped young girls to start projects to earn a living and they are now happy and independent.”

Kyambadde (centre) during a health outreach

After launching it in USA, she moved to Vigwaza, Tanzania, for a special outreach mission. Currently, the mission is running charity activities in Uganda, United States, UK, UAE, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden and Tanzania. Kyambadde says the network is expanding to other countries.

In strengthening the mission, Kyambadde has authored several books, like In my Darkest Hour , The Balanced Woman , Mum and Dad Wake up, Woman you are Great and, her latest one, God’s Grace in Marriage . A mother of three, wife, doctor and apostle by calling, Kyambadde feels that God used cancer to turn her life into a more meaningful being.

She believes that life has to be enjoyed in a balanced way, by apportioning time for church, time for family, time for work, time for exercises, time for friends, but, most important of all, dedicating time for the needy and vulnerable. Preaching and charity work aside, Kyambadde is so passionate about fashion and fitness.