Kathi Winter

As founder and sole owner of Global Incentives, Inc. in Huntington Beach, California, Kathi Winter brings 32 years of international business experience to her role as an HIV educator and He Intends Victory Board Member. Having traveled around the world 72 times in her early career and later through her company, planned and implemented incentive programs through the US, Canada, Europe, and the Pacific Region, she is totally at ease with peoples whose culture is different from her own. Over a 10-year period, she arranged educational exchanges to China for more than 6,000 people. All of this experience served her well when she became involved in HIV education in 1996, after her own diagnosis as HIV Positive.

During her initial diagnosis, she was also a brand new Christian, and had many fears about God and church. She felt abandoned by some friends, family and her first church who asked her not to discuss the disease with other members. So lost and alone, seeking refuge for a Christian support group, in 1998 she found He Intends Victory. Even today she declares, “This organization saved my life and my soul.” In 2004, Kathi began speaking at events for He Intends Victory and she joined the board officially in 2006. She proclaims that this is the ONLY Christian support group world wide that brings our HIV brothers and sisters together in a forum for open conversation and the loving support of God. “It’s just a total Godly directed organization. And I am so grateful for H.I.V.

Kathi expanded her efforts in this field by making presentations to schools and churches through the Red Cross and AIDS Service Foundation. In 2005, she began an association with Saddleback Church, whose Pastor, Rick Warren, was a leader in the effort to break the silence about HIV/AIDS that existed for so long in churches. Kathy co-led the first support group for Saddleback for a year, and through He Intends Victory, she has helped to pioneer the encouraging of churches at home and abroad to open their hearts and minds to the, still, taboo subject.

Since 1998, when Kathi co-founded Outreach to Africa, a 501-C3 California nonprofit corporation, she helped to create special projects, by implementing a major HIV Education Conference in Uganda, Rwebisengo in 2006 along the boarder of Congo in a large village. . Throughout the years, Kathi has traveled to Africa more than 15 times and plans to return yearly. Her personal story has been told in Dan Wooding’s book, He Intends Victory. Her letters home describing the heart-wrenching day-to-day activities and conditions in the places where she has worked would fill another book.

In 2008, Kathi led a small humanitarian team to Uganda and Congo to teach HIV education to over 750 church leaders and pastors over a three day long seminar. The results were very favorable as many people came to the Lord. H.I.V. has over 18 support groups in Fort Portal, Uganda and a newly forming association with church leaders in Goma Congo.

Kathi’s mission is: Through education to spread the truth about HIV/AIDS, so that people worldwide can gain a better understanding about avoiding and living with the disease. She describes HIV as a disease of brokenness of the heart, spirit, mind, and body, and she believes that Christianity demands that we that we let Jesus heal the whole person.