2011 South Sudan Ministry

We plan to return a fifth time to serve together with our Sudanese ministry partners. Whatever your ministry gifts, we will try hard to put them to use. South Sudan is a very needy country, and hopefully headed toward nationhood in a January 2012 referendum. Please check reports of earlier ministry trips. Please indicate your interest early.

The RMNI fee is $2,300, which includes living, ministry and travel expenses within Uganda (our staging area) and Sudan. This includes airfare from Entebbe to Torit, S. Sudan. This fee does not include airfare from your gateway city to Entebbe, Uganda, any associated baggage fees, visas (about $135), or outfitting costs (eg. mosquito net, needed immunizations, passport cost). We will provide access to our travel agent, who has discounted (contracted) airfares--currently about $1,520 roundtrip from Atlanta, Georgia, to Entebbe, Uganda. We intentionally travel when airfares are lowest.

2011 Trip flyer for posting

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2010 Ministry Trip to Southern Sudan

This year's S. Sudan Team pushed some limits to assist in church planting in Eastern Equatoria Province, near Torit. Church planters have received training and we were able to assist through outdoor teaching and preaching, as well as through door-to-door evangelism. In the process we had an adventure. The Spirit went before and provided in every situation. The best witnessing opportunities were set up by people who were high on alcohol, for example. We hope to return in 2011, so please ask the Lord if you should be on board next spring. If you'd like to get involved in supporting one of the four church plants, three of which are located where there is no active church at all, please contact us. Here is a photo report of our trip.

Sudan Team Information Resources

How to get to Sudan - Find out how you can go with us to Sudan--here is your first stop.

Sudan Essentials - The basic information about the trip: costs, needs, etc...

Application - You know you need to go, so the next step is the application.

Waiver of Liability - The waiver must to be notarized, so don't wait.

Quick Gear Listing - The list of things you will want on the trip.

Immunization List - MD Travel Health

2009 Ministry Trip to Southern Sudan

Go here to see a photo report, "Unusual Help: S. Sudan and Uganda 2008."

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2008 Ministry Trip to Southern Sudan and Uganda

This year's Southern Sudan ministry focused upon teaching and evangelism--particularly upon both personal and open-air evangelism. By God's grace 80 made professions of faith in Sudan and Uganda. We had freedom to preach at Torit's city center and to share Christ with shop owners and passers-by. Conditions at Torit improved significantly since 2007.

We also had a wonderful opportunity to help equip church planters and evangelists, and to participate in both house-to-house evangelism and in outdoor preaching at Ntenjeru, Uganda. 

The trip went so smoothly that only at the end of the did it become clear why--two churches had prayed for us around-the-clock.  Go here for a photo report of the 2008 mission.

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2007 Short-term Sudan Trip to Torit, Southern Sudan and Kajjansi, Uganda

This, our second ministry trip to southern Sudan, was more rigorous than our typical trips to (East) Africa. Southern Sudan is recovering from a civil war that lasted for over 20 years. Our Sudanese coordinator is a graduate of two Bible colleges and longtime friend. He heads the Presbyterian Church of Southern Sudan, under which we serve. We were able to serve those who have been under-served, due to war, for a long time.

We found the city and area around Torit (Eastern Equatoria Province) much as we expected, except that it appears to be burgeoning economically. We were able to present seminars to men in Torit and in Kajjansi, Uganda on church leadership, marriage and personal finances and to women on getting to know God, and to many children about salvation, prayer and African geography. RN David Haley treated almost 590 patients at clinics, mostly young children. We also evangelized, seeing about 27 professions of faith. We plan to post a slide presentation of the trip soon, but in the meantime, check David's journal of the trip.

2006 Short-term Missions Trip to Sudan

Two impressions arise from our June visit to Lohutok, Eastern Equatorial Province. First is God's common grace imparted to a culture. It would have taxed our founding fathers (and mothers) to have derived such a system of social checks and balances and orderly government. Second is God's provision. He provided safety, good food and our health was disturbed only briefly by various ailments, except for one serious ankle break. A medical evacuation flight landed within 2.5 hours (it's a 1.5 hour flight from the airport base). Then an anonymous donor in America advanced all the funds needed for the hospitalization and medical evacuation flight. Click here for the photo report of the 2006 Sudan trip: The needs of the Lopit tribe are significant. How help can be given without damaging what is godly in the culture is challenging, as it is to any "undeveloped" culture.

Sudan’s Southern Peace Settlement

At long last a peace accord for southern Sudan was signed on January 9, 2005 by SPLA leader John Garang (deceased) and a representative of the Khartoum government. This event was witnessed by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, according to an AP story. We're grateful for the US government's pressure upon the Sudanese government, which has encouraged this accord. God has given peace--hopefully a just and lasting peace–to the south. May it come soon to the West, in Darfur, which, as the southern accord was signed, was not in sight. Please pray for protection upon the innocent of Darfur and may the UN and the US not give peace to the Sudanese government until a just accord is also reached in Darfur.

For what are now for more historical purposes, James Yugu Yangkole, a very articulate Sudanese, provided reported (until 2001) on "Sudan Churches," "History of Sudan," and "Sudan's Civil War," as well as war statistics of 1999 (see the navigation bar to the left).

Other Sudan Information Resources

Wycliffe's plans to refurbish a Southern Sudanese translation center (12/31/2009)

World Fact Book - Sudan Home Page

The BBC has an extensive site devoted to developments in Sudan, particularly in the Darfur region.  See Sudan: A Nation Divided.