Sudan

Politics and greed have contributed to the killing and displacement of millions of innocent people in Sudan. We have sought to encourage the people of the south, many of them Christians, by distributing relief aid and the hope of Christ. A new Bible school and orphanages have also been established. More recently, we have expanded our work by assisting the people in the Darfur district.

For many years, the goal of our work in southern Sudan was to encourage the people displaced from their homes and villages by more than 25 years of warfare. The people of the south, many of whom were Christians, were forced to live without adequate food, clothes, water, or shelter. Some even lived in trees with no food for their children. Coupled with years of drought and famine, the people of southern Sudan have lived in intolerable conditions. We endeavored to take relief aid to these persecuted and neglected people and to encourage them with the distribution of Bibles and evangelistic tools such as the Jesus film and God's Story. Because the living conditions remain harsh, we continue to distribute relief aid items and Bibles. However, since open warfare in the south is less frequent following the “peace agreement”, we have been able, through our partnerships, to establish the Western Upper Nile Bible School and several orphanages. The delivery of construction materials has enabled the people to erect more permanent buildings for the school and orphanages. We are amazed at the incredible faith of the Christians in southern Sudan, in spite of the persecution, and we continue to tell their stories.

For the past few years, reports of unbelievable violence and atrocities have come out of the Darfur region of western Sudan. While thousands of innocent people have been killed, it is believed that more than two million people have been displaced from their homes - some facing confinement in refugee camps within Darfur, many others fleeing to neighboring countries to face confinement there. We have begun working inside Darfur with the distribution of critical relief aid to the displaced people who are struggling for survival. These people live in constant fear of being attacked, tortured, or killed.

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