After getting team feedback, the next trip to S. Sudan is postponed until S. Sudan ends her 14-day mandatory quarantine (irrespective of immunizations or negative Covid test). This is her best defense against Covid and variants at present. Hopefully we’ll be able to travel there early (April?) in 2022. The lead time for visas and other arrangements is currently unknown, since a case must be made to get a visa. We’d hoped that trends would be increasingly favorable for travel by now, but with a very severe 3rd wave of a variant hitting Uganda in June 2021, immediately to the south, the opposite is the case. We will provide new dates when feasible, and invite applications to join our team in the meantime.
Please see https://www.rmni.org/global-and-short-term-missions/sudan.html for general information on S. Sudan trips. Feel free to contact the director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., for specific information.
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.
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.
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