Dear Friend of the Faith & Life Lectures,

In two weeks, on Thursday, April 23, the 2014-2015 Faith & Life Lecture Series is privileged to present author and activist Immaculée Ilibagiza.

Immaculée Ilibagiza is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that took the lives of nearly one million Tutsis. Men, women and children, including her entire family except for one of her brothers, were massacred at the hands of Hutu marauders. Immaculée found shelter at a pastor's home, where she and seven other women hid from the deadly rebel mob in a 3-by-4-foot bathroom for 91 days. During those 91 days of unimaginable suffering, Immaculée found her faith, taught herself English, and most incredibly, committed herself to a life of peace, hope and forgiveness, even for those who had murdered her family.

Immaculée has gone on to work at the United Nations. She has received five honorary doctoral degrees, written seven books about her faith and her life journey, and received the The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace.

This talk, titled Faith & Forgiveness: Surviving the Genocide in Rwanda, begins at 7 p.m. at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church in Plymouth, and is free and open to the public. I hope you'll be able to join us for this important presentation, and look forward to seeing you on April 23.

  

Sincerely,

Tim Westermeyer
The Faith & Life Lecture Series
 

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 St. Philip the Deacon 

St. Philip the Deacon is located at 17205 County Rd. 6 in Plymouth. All Faith & Life events are free and open to the public, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors.

 

Thank You!   

 

Thank you to all of our supporters and attendees for making the 2014-2015 season so successful. 
Immaculée Ilibagiza

 

Immaculée Ilibagiza's book, Left toTell, has received a Christopher Award "affirming the highest values of human spirit," and was chosen as Outreach Magazine's selection for "Best Outreach Testimony/Biography Resource of 2007." Left to Tell has been adopted into the curriculum of dozens of high schools and universities, including Villanova University, which selected it for their "One Book Program," making Left to Tell mandatory reading for its 6,000 students. Immaculée has written six additional books in recent years .

Today, Immaculée is regarded as one of world's leading speakers on faith, hope and forgiveness. She has shared this universal message with world leaders, school children, multinational corporations, churches, and at events and conferences around the world, including a recent presentation to over 200,000 people in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  



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Copies of Left to Tell and other books by Immaculée Ilibagiza will be available for purchase and signing the evening of the event.
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