Living Faith 2006 — Winner

Nabin Karki, then 22, was a final-year college student in Pokhara and a member of the church's youth group. His essay — titled "The Street I Did Not Leave" — argued that choosing to stay in one's own neighbourhood, when leaving would have been easier, is itself an act of faith. It drew on his decision to turn down a job offer in Kathmandu to remain in Pokhara-9 and volunteer as a tutor for underprivileged students. The judges described it as "quietly powerful — a model of faith expressed in the unglamorous details of daily life, not in grand gestures."