UCE Story Contest Winners

Dear UCE Teams,

Thank you to all of you who participated in the story contest! You did such a wonderful job, people commented that they thought it was our best World AIDS Day Agape Meal and All Night prayer vigil in all the 10 years we have been doing it. Thank you so much! The winners are:

Grand Prize Winner: Herman Nguki, Tanzania, "The Power of Prayer"

1st Place Winners:

Rev. Onesiphore Ndayizigamiye, Burundi, "Perseverance"

Joel Elphas, Tanzania, "I was jailed by sexual intimacy" 

Runner Ups: 

Glory Mlay, Tanzania, "Dispelling Destructive Myths"

John Lwegnwa, Tanzania, "Forgiveness"

I will be wiring you all the prizes today. I am also attaching some pictures from the event, and also some of the stories that we used (I included my own submission also). Thank you all for all that you do! Merry Christmas!

Yours in Christ,
Andrew

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Andrew Dernovsek

Executive Director, Universal Chastity Education 

Phone: (719) 248-8828

Website: www.uceglobal.org

Read the Winners  stories 

Herman Nguki, Tanzania,  Herman Nguki, Tanzania, "The Power of Prayer"

My name is Herman Nguki, I was born in rural Tanzania near Iringa, on August 22^nd, 1989. My mother and my father were not married. During my mother’s pregnancy, my father refused to take care of my mother by saying that the pregnancy was not his. But, after my birth, my face revealed that he is my father. Still, he was not accepting of me, and refused to give anything to his born baby boy. I entered primary school, without the help of my father. When I was in grade six, in 2004, my father was still refusing to provide me with some basic requirements, although he was more able than my mother. He was also now married to another woman. Continue Reading Herman Nguki, Tanzania, "The Power of Prayer"

 Rev. Onesiphore Ndayizigamiye, Burundi,"Perseverance"

“Recently, we planned for an outreach at Misasa Fundamental Secondary School. It is located in the bush, some kilometers from Makamba town. Some minutes before we left the office, it started to rain so heavily in Makamba town. We began to doubt whether we would make the journey or not because the way to Misasa is very slippery when it rains. Immediately, upon having these thoughts, the headmaster of the school called me, and asked, “Where are you now? We are eager to see you.”Continue Reading Rev. Onesiphore Ndayizigamiye, Burundi, "Perseverance"

Joel Elphas, Tanzania,  "I was jailed by sexual intimacy"

Thought sex, masturbation, had arrested my spiritual, psychological, social and academic development. From 2010 to 2011, I was jailed by this sexual addiction, and during the night I would have thought sex with the girls Imet during the day. They attracted me because of theirbeautiful physical appearance, and wearing styles that aroused my sexual thoughts, and caught my eyes. To me, at night, they became real images in my bed. I did not like the situation, but I had no means to stop it.Continue Reading Joel Elphas, Tanzania, "I was jailed by sexual intimacy"

 

  Andrew Dernovsek "The Night Ride" From my time in Lesotho

The 29^th of August 2009. Life is never what you expect. So why should death contain anything but the unexpected?  You would think that after 2 years one would become accustomed to the funerals and the death. In fact, the opposite is true. Each time I visit a family, a friend, it compounds upon the pain of those already lost. Each time someone dies the despair grows. Instead of creating a feeling of numbness and separation, death begins to bring a sense of desperation. But of course on the outside everything is business as usual.Continue Reading Andrew Dernovsek "The Night Ride

Florianne's Testimony, Burundi, Muyogo, UCE Club Member

“My name is Florianne, I am a student of Muyogo High School. I joined UCE three years ago. I am an orphan and manage hardly to get schooling equipment. One time, one of my teachers invited me to his house to discuss with me my vulnerability as an orphan. He started touching me and telling me sexual stories. Courageously enough, with my abstinence card in my hand. I said NO and left his house safely. I advise my peers to hold onto Christ and the teachings of UCE strongly, in order to avoid spoiling our abstained life for useless things.”

ANDREW

*Let us have courage. Let us reflect on our personal convictions. How can we courageously stand for what we believe in when we are challenged as Florianne was? Let us remember the vulnerable, the orphans. How can we be Christ to them?*