IMPACT Magazine Issue 2.4 | Page 7

THE PEACEKEEPER Haggai Institute training is being put to use in the troubled region of Darfur. Since the 1980s, conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan has created a humanitarian crisis, claiming 480,000 lives and creating 2.8 million refugees. Servilien Nitunga left his International Training Session with goals to reach 15,000 people with the Good News and to train more than 1,500 Christians – in two years. A Burundian serving as a planning officer for the peacekeeping mission in Darfur-Sudan, he is also a pastor and the chairperson of the Christian Police Association of Burundi. He reports, “My church leadership has recommended that I plan a training program to share with all church members the different skills and topics they judged as important, in order to have an impact in Darfur. They appreciated the training course and thanked God for answering their prayers by availing tools appropriate to bring the Gospel to Darfur.” A Darfur refugee camp in neighboring Chad q “MY CHURCH LEADERSHIP HAS RECOMMENDED THAT I PLAN A TRAINING PROGRAM TO SHARE WITH ALL CHURCH MEMBERS THE DIFFERENT SKILLS AND TOPICS THEY JUDGED AS IMPORTANT, IN ORDER TO HAVE AN IMPACT IN DARFUR.”