Helping People Live Healthy Lives E-Newsletter May 2018 Vol. 13 No. 2
Jambo! (Swahili for hello!) In this issue, I'd like to share about our recent mission trip to Tanzania where I had the blessed and humble opportunity to see the programs first-hand. The enthusiasm of the principals, teachers, and students in receiving this message and taking it to heart was truly awesome!
Additionally, we received a generous offer from an anonymous donor who is doubling new donor donations and increases in donations (from 2017) from current donors NOW through August 18, 2018! Don't miss this wonderful opportunity!
Lastly enjoy some inspiring accounts below from Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi as we join them in saving lives from AIDS! Thanks for your support!
Rejoice in Christ,
Sarah Smith
USA Director, Universal Chastity Education
PS SAVE THE DATE! For those in the Colorado area, AUGUST 18, 2018 will be UCE's Annual Braai (BBQ) & Bluegrass Fundraiser. More details to follow!
A Mission Trip to Remember: 4,427 Youth reached in Tanzania!
On a recent trip to Tanzania, Africa, a dedicated group including Dr & Mrs Dennis & Lynn Gimlin, Mr & Mrs Trent and Sarah Smith, Mrs Hannah Rush, joined co-founders, Drs Ken & Kim Dernovsek of Universal Chastity Education (UCE) in traveling along with local UCE Tanzania teams as they held outreach presentations to youth across Tanzania. The team members instructed and encouraged an incredible 4,427 youth in one week in UCE's mission: to practice abstinence before marriage as God's design and healthiest lifestyle, and to remain chaste and faithful to their spouse after marriage! Additionally, UCE teaches secondary viriginity, that is for those youth who have engaged in sexual activity to have the option to make a new choice for abstinence. Out of the 4,427 youth who heard the message 3,691 youth gratefully received the message and signed chastity commitment cards!
Why are these outreach efforts needed? Sub-Sahara Africa is home to 70% of the world's total HIV/AIDS population. These outreach events are literally saving lives in Africa by stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS among those who choose to live a chaste lifestyle.
Following each instructional chastity outreach, the UCE team encouraged the youth to commit to chastity by making a personal commitment to living a chaste lifestyle and signing their own Chastity Pledge Card. The enthusiasm of the youth and principals alike at each school presentation was amazing! One particular school was noteworthy because the principal himself had signed a UCE Chastity Pledge Card in 2012, sharing how it made a difference in his own life! He invited the UCE team to come to his school so his students could benefit from the positive lifestyle message of chastity too!
During their stay, the US group experienced daily challenges normal to Africa including power outages, primitive facilities, and differing road conditions that made you feel like you were riding a roller coaster at times! One time the group had to walk the rest of the short distance to reach the school since the road was too muddy for the vehicle to pass. The Africans fondly termed walking and sliding on the muddy roads as "dancing without the music!"
Lastly, enjoy an entertaining self-produced short video of the trip here For more information or if you have interest joining UCE for a future mission trip, contact Sarah Smith, USA Director, at contact@uceglobal.org or by calling 719-248-8828. Enjoy!
Kasese, Uganda: Lessons Learned!
The UCE team was invited to King Jesus secondary school on March 12, 2018 where in January 2018, a female student died of abortion; she had been impregnated by her boyfriend and fellow student in the school. When the girl realized she was pregnant she told the boyfriend. His response was to tell the girl to abort which left her dead.
The team used the above incidence to encourage students to abstain and concentrate on their studies. Female students were encouraged to always say NO to boys/mens' sexual favors.
Girls should be bold enough to say NO. Otherwise they suffer the consequences from school dropout, deaths due abortions and early pregnancies. HIV/AIDS is real and claiming so many lives. Abstinence is the 100% effective means of preventing HIV/AIDS and STIs. 61 students boldly signed abstinence card!
Burundi: Inspiring Hope!
During this outreach above, the headmistress shared with the UCE team that there is a problem with female sex trafficking by the boys to traders. During the discussions, the youth also raised the same issue and other issues such as early marriages in order to be the second wives, poverty, and the lure of movies for sexual favors. The team encouraged the girls to not let themselves to be taken as objects but to guard the gift of their bodies. All of them were invited to behavioral change so that they may live for God!
The team explained the consequences of committing sexual sin. Jeremiah 29:11 reveals to us the good plans of God to everyone and John 10:10 Jesus Himself came so that we may have life and have it to the full. The team concluded by the invitation to sign abstinence cards and 203 youth committed to chastity!
Masaka Uganda: KABUWOKO SECONDARY SCHOOL
UCE Outreach March 15, 2018. 452 Students signed chastity commitments!
Donors, we THANK YOU: 408,165 people have made
life-saving commitments to chastity through UCE programs
Universal Chastity Education, Inc. (UCE) is an educational organization established in 2004 and determined to be a public charity, exempt from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its promotes through education sexual abstinence until marriage and marital fidelity as healthy lifestyles free from sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS. UCE operates in rural Uganda. and launched in Burundi in 2007 and Tanzania in 2009 and in the USA in 2012. Visit the UCE website Click to DONATE to UCE
