COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION

ALARM Uganda continued its groundbreaking peace program

for boda-boda riders—motorcycle taxis—and police, who have historically been at odds. The peace clubs have raised up Christian servant leaders, reduced incidents of police brutality and fighting with lawless boda riders, and trained both parties in how to resolve and not escalate conflicts.

As ALARM-trained leaders help to reconcile relationships, communities become transformed as people come together as one to address local needs and challenges. ALARM walks alongside these leaders, empowering and supporting them as they lead local initiatives including: microfinance, clean water, community-based orphan care, and training in life skills, business, agriculture, and livestock.

2017 Highlights 576 orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda received holistic (spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial) support through ALARM’s community-based orphan care program.

167 women in South Sudan, DRC, & Rwanda participated in savings groups, received skills training, or were trained and equipped in finances and economics.

199 families have benefited from ALARM Kenya’s mixed farming

project, receiving either a cow or goats and training on mixed farming, business skills, animal management, servant leadership, and conflict resolution. More than 600 children are now attending school because of goat and milk proceeds.

WHERE WE WORK

ALARM TRAINS AND EQUIPS CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN 8 COUNTRIES IN EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA: BURUNDI, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, KENYA, RWANDA, SUDAN, SOUTH SUDAN, TANZANIA, AND UGANDA.

WITH YOUR HELP, 11,454 CHRISTIAN LEADERS WERE TRANSFORMED THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF ALARM IN 2017.

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1. BURUNDI 1,344 Christian leaders

2. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 995 Christian leaders

3. KENYA 958 Christian leaders

4. RWANDA 1,241 Christian leaders

5. SOUTH SUDAN 2,167 Christian leaders

6. SUDAN 568 Christian leaders

7. TANZANIA 1,148 Christian leaders

8. UGANDA 3,033 Christian leaders

PASTOR TO THE REFUGEES

HOW A SOUTH SUDANESE PASTOR LOST—AND FOUND— HIS CALLING, WITH HELP FROM ALARM.

When soldiers ambushed Pastor Andrea Tako and his companions in the house where they were hiding, he left everything behind and ran for his life. He and the others took refuge in the tall stalks of a sorghum field. South Sudanese government soldiers sprayed bullets all around them, and gunmen walked close by Pastor Andrea, but he wasn’t found. “That day I learned that God is really with his people,” Pastor Andrea said. “This is a great testimony.”

The horrors of that night in 2016 were not over, however. Pastor Andrea watched from a distance as soldiers rounded up people in the village and slaughtered them with knives. The U.N. has documented many such atrocities on both sides of South Sudan’s civil war, which broke out in 2013. In this case, the people were unarmed and likely had no role in the conflict.

Later, when the soldiers had moved on, Pastor Andrea crept back to the house where he’d slept to retrieve his belongings. Everything of material value had been stolen. But Pastor Andrea pulled a precious possession from an otherwise-empty pack: his diploma from CLISS.

CLISS stands for Christian Leadership Institute of South Sudan. It is the ALARM-operated seminary from which Pastor Andrea graduated in 2012. Here, he received three years of instruction in servant leadership principles, biblical theology, how to resolve conflicts, and many other subjects. The knowledge he acquired sustained him as a pastor. Now, it would guide him in a new calling.

Like hundreds of thousands of other South Sudanese in 2016, Pastor Andrea fled on foot to northern Uganda and the safety of its refugee camps. He was already on his way to the border when the soldiers ambushed him, though many of his fellow travelers would never make it. In a refugee settlement called Rhino Camp, Pastor Andrea was reunited with his family. To his surprise, he would also be reunited with ALARM.

In 2017, Pastor Andrea received an invitation to participate in an ALARM conference for pastors of churches within the refugee camps. Because the South Sudanese refugees were so traumatized from the horrors they’d witnessed and suffered—the indiscriminate slaughter of friends and loved ones; the sexual assaults of sisters, wives, and daughters; the loss of their homes—they needed special spiritual care. Even more so, their pastors needed it.

ALARM Uganda staff led the church leaders through a process of healing from trauma. They encouraged them to forgive and become agents of reconciliation. Healed of their own wounds, the shepherds could now reach out to their traumatized church members.

Pastor Andrea, who leads a Pentecostal Church of God congregation in Rhino Camp, embraced his role as a refugee pastor. He took what he’d learned about trauma healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation and taught others. The pastors who’d received ALARM training worked together across denominational lines, counseling wounded believers and healing broken relationships. Their churches began to fill; people started lining the wooden benches for prayer. Souls were won, and backsliders returned to the Lord. In December 2017, in fact, Pastor Andrea baptized 25 new believers in a river.

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Uganda South - Sudan DR . Congo South - Sudan MOYO DISTRICT YUMBE ZONE1 ZONE2 Bidibidi R.C1 YUMBE DISTRICT KOBOKO DISTRICT Kuluba C.C Yumbe - Bidibidi 18 km GPS Coordnates 3°28'45.07"N, 31 °22'19.77"E Barakala Midigo Lobe Oraba Kuluba - Yumbe 43 km Kaya Menzere C.C Goboro C.C MOYO Itula Z O N E 1 Palorinya Refugee Settlement Palorinya - Moyo 23 Km Yumbe - Moyo 66 km Yumbe - Moyo 66 km Kuluba - Busia 25 km Salia Musala E.P Palorinya R.C GPS Coordnates 3°30'24.78"N, 31 °39'40.32"E Kochi Aliodranyus Lafori Lefori C.C Kei Goboro Kuluba Apo Kochi Kei Midigo Kuluba Ludara Lefori Moyo Romogi Apo Albert Nile River Kochi River Kochi Uganda South - Sudan DR . Congo South - Sudan MOYO DISTRICT YUMBE ZONE1 ZONE2 Bidibidi R.C1 YUMBE DISTRICT KOBOKO DISTRICT Kuluba C.C Yumbe - Bidibidi 18 km GPS Coordnates 3°28'45.07"N, 31 °22'19.77"E Barakala Midigo Lobe Oraba Kuluba - Yumbe 43 km Kaya Menzere C.C Goboro C.C MOYO Itula Z O N E 1 Palorinya Refugee Settlement Palorinya - Moyo 23 Km Yumbe - Moyo 66 km Yumbe - Moyo 66 km Kuluba - Busia 25 km Salia Musala E.P Palorinya R.C GPS Coordnates 3°30'24.78"N, 31 °39'40.32"E Kochi Aliodranyus Lafori Lefori C.C Kei Goboro Kuluba Apo Kochi Kei Midigo Kuluba Ludara Lefori Moyo Romogi Apo Albert Nile River Kochi River Kochi Some of the refugees found ropes and hanged themselves, Pastor Andrea continued. Others threw themselves in the same river where he baptized new lives. “That is why I say, let us be aware of this trauma,” Pastor Andrea said. “Let us go and talk to the people so they will know that the only solution is to go to God. When Jesus comes into us, we are now working with the Holy Spirit, and anything is now possible. We are able to forgive. The trauma can begin to go away, and we begin to have peace in our hearts.” “LET US NOT GIVE UP IN TEACHING THEM”

Uganda DR Congo DR Congo Lomunga Odravu Arua 67 Km To Zone 5 Kulikulinga Rhino Camp Rd Obongi Rd To Zone 4 ZONE 4 Abiryamajo BIDIBIDI R.C2 Mengo ZONE 4 ABARA ZONE3 ZONE 5 Ariwa ZONE5 Okuyo Odupi ZONE3 ZONE2 ZONE 1 KOBOKO MARACHA DISTRICT Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Imvepi Refugee Settlement Otumbari Koboko - Yumbe 37 km Lodonga Ariwa Obongi IMVEPI R.C UNHCR FIELD OFFICE Ombechi GPS Coordnates 3°15'10.59"N, 31 °16'34.15"E GPS Coordnates 3°14'59.00"N, 31 °23'25.74"E GPS Coordnates 3°27'14.87"N, 31 °15'7.26"E Obongi - Palorinya 37 Km Obongi - Kulikulinga 46 Km Obongi - Adjumani 35 Km Lobule BC Kuluba 12 km ADJUMANI DISTRICT Lobule Refugee Settlement ZONE2 ZONE3 GPS Coordnates 3°23'9.41 "N, 31 ° 5'15.05"E Lobule 16 km Birijaku E.P Komgbe Kuru Drajini Mongoyo Omugo MARACHA Lugbari Odupi Omugo Aii-Vu Odravu Ariwa YivuNyadriOluffe Oleba Tara Lobule Midia Midia Aliba Gimara Itula Kululu Kuru Lodonga Drajini Rhino Camp Extension Albert Nile Obongi Ferry Odupi - Imvepi 13 Km Ariwa - Komgbe 14 Km Obiyu River Enyau River Enyau River Enyau Yidu River Enyau River Ora Uganda DR Congo DR Congo Lomunga Odravu Arua 67 Km To Zone 5 Kulikulinga Rhino Camp Rd Obongi Rd To Zone 4 ZONE 4 Abiryamajo BIDIBIDI R.C2 Mengo ZONE 4 ABARA ZONE3 ZONE 5 Ariwa ZONE5 Okuyo Odupi ZONE3 ZONE2 ZONE 1 KOBOKO MARACHA DISTRICT Bidibidi Refugee Settlement Imvepi Refugee Settlement Otumbari Koboko - Yumbe 37 km Lodonga Ariwa Obongi IMVEPI R.C UNHCR FIELD OFFICE Ombechi GPS Coordnates 3°15'10.59"N, 31 °16'34.15"E GPS Coordnates 3°14'59.00"N, 31 °23'25.74"E GPS Coordnates 3°27'14.87"N, 31 °15'7.26"E Obongi - Palorinya 37 Km Obongi - Kulikulinga 46 Km Obongi - Adjumani 35 Km Lobule BC Kuluba 12 km ADJUMANI DISTRICT Lobule Refugee Settlement ZONE2 ZONE3 GPS Coordnates 3°23'9.41 "N, 31 ° 5'15.05"E Lobule 16 km Birijaku E.P Komgbe Kuru Drajini Mongoyo Omugo MARACHA Lugbari Odupi Omugo Aii-Vu Odravu Ariwa YivuNyadriOluffe Oleba Tara Lobule Midia Midia Aliba Gimara Itula Kululu Kuru Lodonga Drajini Rhino Camp Extension Albert Nile Obongi Ferry Odupi - Imvepi 13 Km Ariwa - Komgbe 14 Km Obiyu River Enyau River Enyau River Enyau Yidu River Enyau River Ora Like the Early Church believers who fled persecution and spread the gospel around the world, Pastor Andrea and his ALARM-trained brothers and sisters renewed their calling in exile. Even CLISS was forced to relocate from Yei, South Sudan, which had become unsafe amidst the fighting. Now it operates in Arua, northern Uganda, in close proximity to the refugee camps. Both Pastor Andrea and the staff of CLISS look forward to the day when they will return to a peaceful South Sudan. The Holy Spirit brought them this far, and they know God will complete their journey. First, hearts must change. Many of the refugees hate those who caused their suffering. Tribes blame other tribes among the South Sudanese, and the cycle of retribution continues. “When we do not forgive someone, that person will keep them in their heart, and there is no peace,” Pastor Andrea said. “They are carrying a heavy load. We tell people to release this heavy load in their hearts, but it

Arua - Koboko 56 km Arua - Kulikulinga 67 km Yoro ARUA DISTRICT Otrevu Siripi Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement OCEA R.C Airport Ocea Beleafe Wandi GPS Coordnates 3° 4'18.58"N, 31 °16'56.00"E Akino Uriama Beleafe Katrini Manibe Adumi Aroi Kijomoro 57 Km to Arua 47 Km to Arua EDEN ZONE S I R I P I Z O N E O D O B U Z O N E T I K A Z O C E A Z O N E Z O N E Yoro Base Biliafe - Otrevu 23 Km River Nara O M U G O Z O N E O F U A Arua - Koboko 56 km Arua - Kulikulinga 67 km Yoro ARUA DISTRICT Otrevu Siripi Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement OCEA R.C Airport Ocea Beleafe Wandi GPS Coordnates 3° 4'18.58"N, 31 °16'56.00"E Akino Uriama Beleafe Katrini Manibe Adumi Aroi Kijomoro 57 Km to Arua 47 Km to Arua EDEN ZONE S I R I P I Z O N E O D O B U Z O N E T I K A Z O C E A Z O N E Z O N E Yoro Base Biliafe - Otrevu 23 Km River Nara O M U G O Z O N E O F U A will take time. It is not easy to release. But let us not give up in teaching them.” Rigbo Rigbo O N E Rigbo Rigbo O N E

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