Sunday, July 10, 2011

My Sudanese Summer: A new start

As I write, we are one hour away from South Sudan becoming a country. I’m at a compound where a Sudanese national, David, waits for it to turn midnight so he can plant a tree to commemorate the occasion. As he watches tv, we hear the disco blaring music in the background, as the partiers celebrate independence. This is an event that for these people has  been years in waiting, I don’t have time to provide you the history of South Sudan, but it’s been a long time coming. Will everything be perfect tomorrow? Hardly even close, but it’s a start, so please continue to pray for South Sudan in the coming year.

Sorry for missing week 5, the journey to get here has been crazy, but we have ended up in Kajo Kaji. Here they have vegetables, hills, and many people speak English. The scenery here is amazing with the mountians. Kajo Kaji as far away it is from Akot, literally is like a new world. I literally can see Uganda from our compound. But this week we were sent to a village to do ministry in the area. In hopes of inviting people to teachings every night we walked the village and evangelized. Just like Africa, that didn’t exactly go as planned. No one came to our group teachings and, due to two funerals, we were unable to do ministry for a whole day... playing spades quickly became our pastime. So our plans were rearranged in order... we would just do village evangelism, I literally think I could recite "Creation to Christ" forwards, backwards, and possibly in musical form. We had the opportunity to share with over 25 families this story and even got to speak at a school with over 300 students.