World AIDs Week

World AIDS Week is held every year around December 1st, World AIDS Day. During this week, UCE brings the message about the seriousness of the global HIV/AIDS crisis back to the USA, and relays the successes that UCE has had in combating HIV/AIDS. It is also a time where we remember that the Ugandan success began with prayer, and that prayer sustains our efforts.

Dr. Ken Dernovsek, Bishop Stephen Berg, Fr. Gregory Ezeanya, Dr. Kim Dernovsek, and Walubo Jude Tadeo

Ugandans, and other African countries UCE serves, have experienced what it means to have a quarter of their population sick and dying. “In the early 1990’s, we were going to funerals every week. We came to our knees, thinking about life and God and we prayed to change, and live”. In 2003, when UCE was founded, the HIV prevalence rate in Uganda had already declined. However, the people still held regular all-night prayer vigils, praying for success against the scourge of AIDS. UCE aims to follow the Ugandan model of success against AIDS, and for this reason World AIDS Week focuses on prayer and reflection. The first World AIDS Week all-night prayer vigil was held in Pueblo, Colorado on December 1st, 2006. Currently, UCE only hosts an all-night prayer vigil in Pueblo, Colorado, but if you aren’t from the area this doesn’t mean you can’t be involved too!

Thousands of prayers began the original success, and still thousands more are needed.

You can have your own UCE World AIDS Week all-night prayer vigil:

World AIDS Day Agape Meal

Other easy ways to help UCE:

Faith inspires. Hope is born. Health follows. Come, join us!