The Widows of South Sudan
South Sudan is the world’s newest country, having gained its independence in 2011. Sadly, in that short time it has become a study of a nation’s collapse.
Though South Sudan is oil-rich, pervasive corruption and nine years of tribal warfare have left it the world’s poorest country. Heavy inflation has critically reduced food production, leaving 7 million people on the edge of starvation. Almost 60% of the population are refugees of one category or another.
I will turn our attention to the widows of South Sudan. We know God’s eye is on the fatherless, so his compassion touches the widows who hold the fatherless. They are the ones left with babes in arms, with makeshift “homes” in the vast UN camps, with distress for their own safety, and grief for the losses which their children suffer.
The following analysis will reveal how widows suffer the most and in the worst ways.
- By Tad de Bordenave
Pace Ministries - Dr. Dorris Ngaujah
I have been in Kenya 14 years now. My current title is Assistant to the Director and Founder of PACE Ministries. I do a lot of things, but teaching is probably my best description. I help with staff chapel as well as lead the Sunday worship and teaching for our primary and secondary students. I have a hand in developing partnerships; I mentor students. Our ministry sponsors two schools and I am a part of the administrative team.
- By Dr. Dorris Ngaujah
Update on short-term ministry in S. Sudan
Thanks for your interest in S. Sudan. We were unable to complete travel there in 2020 or 2021, due to Covid-related restrictions. We’re planning to return June 2-14, 2022, if there are no quarantines, or other serious impediments to ministry. Due to country entry requirements and limited healthcare resources in-country, we require Covid vaccinations for team members. We try to create a ministry for you around your gifting. Currently team members plan to teach trauma counseling, equip youth leaders and pastors, and teach the global mission outreach. We have excellent relations with Buluk Eye Clinic in Juba and welcome licensed ophthalmologists and eye nurses to assist there.
If you need to obtain or renew your passport, allow at least 3 months. Visas can take several weeks, due to currently limited services. We use a very experienced company to book flights. Team training is done via Zoom. The team fee is $1,000, which covers lodging, meals and ministry opportunities within S. Sudan. Team members also pay for travel, immunization, visa and personal expenses.
We’ve had no security problems in our previous 13 trips to S. Sudan. However, we are upgrading security preparations as an extra precaution. More information is at https://www.rmni.org/global-and-short-term-missions/sudan.html and you can email Jim Sutherland at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to discuss the opportunity. You may also call 423-822-1091, leave a message, and we’ll get back to you ASAP.
2019 Dental Team
- By Jim Sutherland
Sudan 2018 Trip Briefing
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.
- By Jim Sutherland
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.
- By Jim Sutherland
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."
- By Jim Sutherland
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