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Peace where tribal conflict was the air people breathed.
Favor hosts reconciliation between tribes, trains former raiders as pastors, and teaches forgiveness in trauma counseling.
Cattle raiding and tribal war have shaped daily life across South Sudan and parts of Uganda. Boys grow up as spearmen. Girls lose parents in raids. Favor has hosted reconciliation meetings between tribes that have been raiding each other for years.
Daniel is one fruit of that work. A Mundari cattle warrior, he now leads Portable Bible Schools among his own people and trains other former fighters to preach. The Gospel did what a peace conference had not: it gave him a reason to live that was not the next raid.
Trauma counseling is often the first door. Participants learn to tell the truth about what they have seen, then they are introduced to forgiveness. Church planting follows, sometimes under a mango tree, in the same cattle camp that used to empty when raiders came.
The field film Beauty From Ashes records African tribal conflict and the healing that can follow. Favor does not pretend the raids have stopped. It plants churches that know how to forgive when they start again.
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