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 Universal Chastity Education
Helping People Live Healthy Lives
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E-newsletter
March 2010
Vol. 5 No. 1
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Drs. Dernovsek join Bishop Nyaboho (right) on his weekly UCE Burundi Radio Star FM broadcast reaching into Tanzania  | Greetings!
I guess the sign of a growing and active ministry is that I'm late on getting a UCE newsletter out. That's because so much has happened that I don't know where to begin!
Do I start with... an update from our recent trip to observe UCE in Burundi and Tanzania? Saying "thank-you" to the four volunteers who traveled to Uganda and Tanzania since I last wrote? Telling you about the 4th annual World AIDS Week events that UCE co-sponsored here in the USA? The new UCE internship for Wycliffe College seminarians at University of Toronto? The ongoing requests for UCE expansion from African pastors and priests?
Recently I told the UCE Board of Directors that "I need help" managing all of the various aspects of UCE since it has grown to a three-plus country ministry bringing youth a message of hope that is shared by Anglicans, Catholics, Lutherans, Orthodox and others. It couldn't have been put better than by a UCE donor who wrote, "the UCE message brings NEW LIFE to those who thought death was inevitable from AIDS. Your message transcends any faith tradition. I am moved by your faith in action."
To God alone the Glory,
Kim and Ken Dernovsek
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Volunteers Dom and Maggie Cingoranelli participate in a February 2010 UCE Uganda outreach  | Uganda Teacher Pledges Abstinence Alongside his Students
Field Report from UCE-Uganda
UCE Uganda was doubly blessed to have an American married couple,
both with accounting backgrounds, review programs and give valuable
advice on records management and program administration.
They also went out into the field with the UCE team where
over 5,000 youths in Tororo heard valuable advice about making wise decisions
to stay healthy. More than 2,000 of the youth made formal commitments to
abstain until faithful marriage. The Uganda UCE team reported that the
American volunteers were "passionate" and "youth-loving" as
they "encouraged the youths to choose abstinence, identify good role
models and be selective in what they read and watched in the media."
They said that one of the most powerful moments was when a teacher came
forward and alongside his students, signed a commitment to chastity.
"UCE clearly seems to have an impact and there is a crying need for this
information", said both volunteers. They added that everywhere the team
went they were told, "Thank you, thank you, thank you..." |
 Bringing the UCE Message Home
A Successful World AIDS Week 2009 Pueblo Colorado was co-sponsored by Universal Chastity Education and had compelling speakers like Joe Wodiuk (right) who recounted experiences from his trips to Africa. The week began with an Agape Meal served by Fr. Andrew McMullen, Church of the
Ascension, during which Christians joined in candlelight and with prayer for a simple
meal of bread and
cheese, just as was done in early times. Then the Rev. Uju Patrick Okeahialam, Nigerian and local
pastor, spoke on AIDS in Africa. The all-night vigil began with prayer by Msgr. Tom Adrians, pastor, Christ the King Catholic Parish. On December 1st, World AIDS Day, Dr Kim Dernovsek was guest lecturer at Pueblo Community College on Global AIDS Crisis: Learning from the Ugandan Success. The week closed with Dr Ken Dernovsek addressing the Men's Breakfast Meeting about UCE in Africa. Read more about this ecumenical week of events, in which our local community of Christians prayed and heard about the wisdom of the biblical teachings of abstinence and being faithful and their documented effect on reducing HIV prevalence in Uganda.
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Universal
Chastity Education, Inc. (UCE) is an educational organization
established in 2004 and determined to be a public charity, status 170
(b) (1) (A) (vi), exempt from Federal income tax under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Its purpose is to promote
through education sexual abstinence until marriage and marital fidelity
as healthy lifestyles free from sexually transmitted diseases including
HIV and AIDS. UCE operates in Uganda, AFRICA, with staffed headquarters
in Kampala and most youth outreach/educational events take place in
rural Uganda. Universal Chastity Education, Inc. is duly registered
under the Republic of Uganda Non-governmental Organisations
Registration Statute, 1989, certificate #6196. UCE activities launch in
Burundi, AFRICA in 2007 and Tanzania in 2009. Visit the UCE website
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