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Update on short-term ministry in S. Sudan

After much checking and collaboration with our S. Sudan ministry partners and the S. Sudan US Embassy, RMNI postponed the planned ministry trip to Juba in October 2020, due to covid-19. We tentatively plan to return to Juba in October 2021 (assuming team access to a vaccine and feasible international travel). Detailed trip information is available at https://www.rmni.org/global-and-short-term-missions/sudan.html Please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more trip information.

: Written by Jim Sutherland; Created: 16 November 2018; Last Updated: 09 February 2021

Sudan 2018 Trip Briefing

South Sudan Home Page

Dear Friends,

By God’s grace, the mobile eye clinic mission was accomplished. The team of 6 eye care professionals had screened over 2000 people and completed 208 cataract and trachoma surgeries. A cataract surgeon and eye nurse stayed behind for 5 days to continue surgeries and to do post-operation exams. We also dispensed many hundreds of pairs of reading glasses in both the UN camps at Juba and at Malakal—for example, over a two day period we gave out 400 glasses.

: Written by Jim Sutherland; Created: 16 May 2018; Last Updated: 19 February 2021

Calls from the Inner City

Here are friends from an inner-city “village,” encouraging Christians to come alongside them. In my 27 years of inner city work, I’ve seen perhaps six churches in the Chattanooga area whose members intentionally go into the inner city to regularly hangout with residents. Fear, indifference, and perhaps not wanting to identify with materially poorer people are probably the main reasons. “A poor man is shunned by all his relatives-- how much more do his friends avoid him!” (Pro 19:7 NIV) Please listen.

: Written by Jim Sutherland; Created: 27 October 2017; Last Updated: 02 March 2019

Church Global Missions Resources

Here are some useful resources for your local church to help educate and motivate folks to go global.

Here is a 33-page handbook for Black churches to use to develop their global missions program. Many resources are detailed. It's available for printing and distribution in your church. It was updated in August 2013.
This PowerPoint™ presentation, African Americans and Global Missions, provides an overview of what missions is, a brief history of African American missions and scriptural reasons to engage the Great Commission. You may use and modify it according to your needs.
David Mays, who was an expert church missions mobilizer, wrote How to Operate an Effective Missions Team.
JoshuaProject.net is working on "Bringing definition to the unfinished task."