Thursday, February 2, 2017

Hope in Dark Times

Pastor James of the Faith Evangelical Church in Saika

Fighting has only grown worse in South Sudan. Lack of rain is creating conditions for famine and, sadly, opening access for tanks and soldiers which are bringing destruction into the northern communities of Malakal and the Upper Nile. Reports from local news and from our friends inside of the country are far from hopeful. These are dark times for South Sudan and our church partners are asking us to join them in prayer.

It would be all too easy for our South Sudanese friends to fall into despair and cynism. The long and brutal civil war seems to be destroying everything in its path. 

But rather than giving up, the South Sudanese church is standing together in faith and solidarity. They are not only helping one another but together they are opening their homes and sharing what they have with displaced neighbours from every tribe both within their country and in the refugee camps and communities where the scattered people of South Sudan have fled.

Please join us in uplifting the people and churches of South Sudan in prayer. We pray for the leadership of the country. We pray for humility, mercy, and reconciliation as the international community encourages an end to this war. 

We also pray for safety for a delegation of leaders from our church partner who will be travelling to Kenya in the coming week to join us for partnership meetings here in Nairobi. 

Erica has written an article on the refugee experience of James (pictured above) and members of his refugee church. You can read their story in the Winter 2017 issue of Mosaic magazine -- just Click Here

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