UNIVERSAL CHASTITY EDUCATION Christmas Blessings

A Christmas Message from Sarah Smith, UCE-USA Director

As we approach Christmas and finish a year of unprecedented challenges, I reflect on the grace that God gave the Holy Family, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, to overcome their challenges. Imagine Joseph and Mary looking for a place to give birth to Jesus, finding no room in the inn, and settling into a manger for animals, where Mary then gave birth to the Son of God! Then, imagine the imminent threat of Herod killing all infants under two years old! Just as God saw the Holy Family through their struggles, so also is He with each of us in our work and families through our difficulties. God has surely been with UCE throughout 2020: reducing teen pregnancies at Kibalya, Uganda Secondary School, helping youth achieve academic success in Mpanda, Tanzania, putting the UCE-Masaka team on the radio airwaves, and even reaching into the heart of a Burundian girl who was considering her sexual debut during the holidays. UCE’s programs have given hope for a successful future. Read details below, and also enjoy the news story about our founding directors' retirement from 36 years of full-time medical practice to devote their energies to UCE. UCE has been blessed in so many ways. I sincerely wish you and yours a very blessed Christmas and New Year. It is due to your

generosity and the hard work of the UCE Board of Directors, the UCE-Africa Director Mr. Isaac Lema, the UCE program directors and all the UCE team members that UCE has conducted more than 174 outreaches in 2020, with over 28,400 youth signing chastity commitments. We are still hoping to raise $16,000 to meet our fiscal year budget and meet our goal of 20 more monthly donors. The CARES Act of 2020 provides a wonderful opportunity to give more! Please consider that you can support the ongoing good works of UCE by contributing a year end gift. Thank you ever so much. GIVE A GIFT

“For today in the city of David a Savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.” Luke 2:11-12

UCE is BLESSED (Read below)

UCE-Burundi Olive said, “I have a boyfriend. He always asks me to sleep with him so that he knows that I love him. I told him to wait until the holidays. But now, from what I learned from UCE, I understand that I was going to risk my life. From now on, I’m going to abstain until marriage and tell him ‘no’ to sexual intercourse before marriage. May the Lord bless UCE and all the team.”

UCE-Tanzania Mpanda municipality reported that UCE brought positive impact and contributed to the improvement of national examination results.  UCE’s success in Tanganyika district can be traced back to when UCE-Tanzania conducted chastity outreaches to all secondary schools at Mpanda municipality in Tanzania during September 2019. Read entire story

UCE-Uganda, Kasese Kibalya Secondary School reported that every term they lose over 10 students who get pregnant and don’t come back again. After the UCE team visited the school last year there were no pregnancies reported. Even with the prolonged forced COVID-19 holiday, the head teacher has not heard of any pregnancy cases. Read entire story

The Dernovseks, Pueblo doctors and founders of Universal Chastity Education, retire from medical practice By Alexis Smith, The Pueblo Chieftain, Dec. 19, 2020 ...It's a story of two people who met while in medical school, married, started a family, and founded a nonprofit known as Universal Chastity Education. Read entire story

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