IAFR sponsored five pastors from Kakuma to participate in a 2 week training on Peace and Reconciliation work earlier this year. This pastors offered a four hour training for church leaders covering some of the material in Kakuma this morning.

Around 60 pastors participated. They represented diverse nations and people groups in the region. Many are from tribal communities that are at war with each other in neighboring countries.

At the end of today’s workshop a few participants stood up to share some of the unresolved hurts they carry. One pastor shared how he has lost 48 family members to war back in his homeland – and that he is receiving death threats even in Kenya. The group received his words well and gathered around him in prayer.

The program is called Healing Hearts Transforming Nations (HHTN). It has been developed with a strategy that empowers those who have been trained to train others.

They are eager to bring the training to all of the zones in the camp – and to Kakuma town and it’s surrounding villages too. The refugee churches hope to ultimately get the training back to their homelands and home communities. If this happens, it could play a big part in paving the way to peace and addressing the root causes of their displacement. That’s a big dream. One that needs our prayers.