An Evening with Immaculee

An Evening with Immaculée

Immaculée is a living example of faith put into action. Her life was transformed traumatically during the 1994 Rwandan genocide where she and 7 other women spent 91 days huddled silently together in a 3’x4’ bathroom of a local pastor’s house while nearly 1 million of her fellow Rwandans were slaughtered by a rival faction. Immaculée entered the bathroom a vibrant, 115 pound university student with a loving family-she emerged weighing just 65 pounds to find her entire family had been brutally murdered (with the exception of a brother who had been studying out of the country).

Her survival is attributed mostly to prayer and a set of red rosary beads given to her by her devout Catholic father prior to going into hiding. Anger and resentment were eating her alive and destroying her faith, but rather than succumbing to the rage she felt, Immaculée instead turned to prayer. She began to pray the rosary as a way of drowning out the negativity that was building up inside her. Through prayer, she eventually found it possible, and in fact imperative, to forgive her tormentors and her family’s murderers.

Immaculée’s book, Left to Tell, has been translated into 17 languages worldwide. Her story has been made into a documentary titled The Diary of Immaculée. She has appeared in numerous media including 60 Minutes, The CBS Early Morning Show, CNN, EWTN, The Aljazeera Network, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsday, and many other domestic and international outlets.

Today, Immaculée is regarded as one of the world’s leading speakers on peace, faith, and forgiveness. She has shared her universal message with world dignitaries, school children, multinational corporations, churches and conferences around the world. Immaculée works hard to spread her message and to raise money for charities assisting the poor in Ikbeho, Rwanda. Immaculée holds honorary doctoral degrees from The University of Notre Dame and Saint John’s University, and was awarded The Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace 2007.

100% of the proceeds from this amazing evening will benefit five local women’s ministries: Amarillo Agency for Women, Downtown Women’s Center, Eveline Rivers Sunshine Cottage, the Women’s Domestic Violence shelter directed by Family Support Services and Martha’s Home Make plans now to attend this truly amazing event on Friday, March 9, 2012. You won’t want to miss Immaculée in Amarillo: Love, Hope and Faith.