
I was excited to meet Milcah Kizitu this month. She joined our peace education movement last year from a training workshop our local coordinators, Chrispo and Joshua, led. I'll let Milcah share what happened next in her own words.
After the workshop, I started preaching peace in the school right away. I taught the teachers, I shared with them what we had learned in the workshop, and we started a peace program in the school [teaching our free "Are We Together?" curriculum]. I run it myself. The school now is on fire. Many children in the school have responded, together with the teachers. We learn about peace using the manual that we were given, and we have also printed some charts around the school. We talk about peace.
But also as a pastor's wife, I do a lot of counselling, and preaching, and teaching in the church. The program has helped me so much in that area. In preaching, it has helped me. I have intermarried it with some Bible Scriptures that talk about peace, I preach, and I tell you, whenever I get out of church people show their appreciation that I have touched their hearts, that they are going to change, I've touched people's marriages, because peace cuts across; it touches everywhere. These days it's a very big tool in my teaching and preaching in church.
And on the other side, I lead Christian's women's groups in church. I use the very manual to carry out counselling in the women's groups that I lead, and also in the young people's groups, and the project is wonderful. I'm just grateful to the Lord that I was introduced to it. And I am so thankful for people who sat down and thought about the project.
I hope to continue learning more and more, because the training was one day and we are right now trying to study the manual more and more. This year in 2025 we are even more committed to learning more, and also sitting with responsible people to help and guide us as to how to simplify the training manual to the levels of all people. First of all, for us as primary teachers, to the level of young children, but also to the level of people who are not learned, especially the women in the community. We have many women who are not learned.
So, all in all, we are so grateful that the founders of this project came up with it. It is very useful, and as Christians, it's very important. It's just my prayer that it reaches everywhere in our country, and even the whole world, because where there is no peace, there is little development, there is worry, fighting, there are so many things.
It starts with us, in our personal life, having peace personally. I have learned words which promote peace, and these words we are preaching, we are training our little children, to learn words like "sorry," "may I," "I have forgiven you," things like that. It's a wonderful project. We thank you so much. We provides for us that we promote it farther. Thank you, may God bless you.
God bless you too, Milcah! We are so grateful that you are spreading peace everywhere you go.
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