CHE TOT3 took place last week. The main purpose of CHE TOT3 is to wrap up loose ends from previous trainings, and to allow the to-be CHE Trainers to facilitate lessons on their own, and receive peer correction. We are so proud of how they progressed through the week! They really learned from each other so well.
We are pleased to announce that the first round of fully-trained CHE Trainers have graduated and have been commissioned to go out and serve in their communities! CHE TOT3 took place last week. The main purpose of CHE TOT3 is to wrap up loose ends from previous trainings, and to allow the to-be CHE Trainers to facilitate lessons on their own, and receive peer correction. We are so proud of how they progressed through the week! They really learned from each other so well. Something big happened on the very last day of training - one of our CHE Trainers gave her life to the Lord Jesus! On Saturday, the Bishop of the Diocese of Kitgum came to commission the new Trainers and "unleash" them - so that they may go and start to implement the CHE ministry in their respective areas. As preparations for the commissioning service were made, our CHE trainers sat under a tree, practising songs to present during the service. You can see some of their singing in this video: The commissioning service was such a joyful moment for us. We were busting with pride, sort of like we imagine parents must feel when one of the children accomplishes something big. Here's a video of the Bishop blessing the CHE Trainers before concluding the service - notice they have their certificates in hand! What a truly joyful moment! Praise be to the God of all the earth, for faithfully bringing this first round of training to a successful close. May He strengthen the new Trainers, as they go out to start transforming their communities, to be healthy like God created them to be!
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In between working on CHE and other things, we've been working on a feasibility study for a counseling ministry here in Pader. The idea is to train lay counselors from the communities we work with to handle or refer issues like HIV/AIDS, war trauma, domestic violence, alcoholism/drug abuse, etc. Like CHE, training lay people at the ground level would expand the reach of our little tiny office, to maximize impact! However, do we understand counseling the same as our Acholi friends? Do people we serve see a need for this ministry? What kinds of issues should counselors be trained in? And what services already exist? These are the questions we're trying to address through our feasibility study. We have currently held 5 of 6 planned community discussion, using different participatory methods. We hope to start developing curriculum in Oct/Nov in partnership with the church and other NGOs having expertise in different counseling areas. Mike took these photos while we were in a community called Aluka: The grey skies turned into rain, so we moved inside the church...by that time, we had about 50 people participating!
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