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14Giving Is Immeasurable: Change One, Change 100 (Kenya, 2017): Waging peace on warriors / Stepping-stones in the river of life / Education as a path out of poverty

SELLINE FELT AS IF HER BLOOD were freezing.

The local pastors pleaded with her not to go. They warned that the warriors would kill her. They had killed women and children waiting for inoculations at a medical clinic. Why wouldn't they kill her?

She ignored the warnings.

She walked through the column of Pokot warriors. They were well organized and well armed, accessing weapons from nearby Uganda that even the Kenyan government couldn't get.

The government didn't want her there, either. Often the government instigated violence with the group, so they felt Selline and her talk of peace and reconciliation were an affront to their authority.

The leaders of the warriors sat in chairs, their manhood covered only by thin cords and AK-47s.

The National Council of Churches in Kenya had posted her to the region experiencing ethnic clashes in the early 1990s. When she first arrived, she felt as though they had brought her there to die. “You could feel the hostility,” she said.

But her faith gave her courage.

“I'm serving a God of justice, a God who wants us to love. Looking at people who seem unlovable by society, I see them as clients. I want to reach out to them with love and service. My faith encourages me to give [rather] than to receive…You look at people and they are looking for hope…My faith gives me the opportunity ...