The Dinka are the largest people group in Sudan numbering up to three million. The daily lives of these very tall and very dark people revolve around cattle herding.
While some work has been accomplished for the Dinka, still less than 2% have been reached.
After many years of residing in refugee camps due to 20 years of civil war, a recent peace agreement is allowing many Dinka to return to their traditional homeland.
Pray that newly-trained leaders will help transform these communities through the Word of our Lord God.
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"...Bringing the Southern Sudenese Diaspora and Home Together"
We wound up with seventeen people on the team: three people from Forest Meadow Baptist, four from FBC Quitman, TX, six greenhorn journeymen and women from various parts of the US, and four Dinka translators. The journeymen were with us for only the first week, but everyone else was there for the duration. ...
- Ann Rao
August 29, 2008
Let me introduce you to two of your dear brothers in Christ, serving in Southern Sudan. Isaac Bol and Chadrack Chol are wonderful men of God. They are both pastors of Baptist churches. They do not have a church building, have an office or own a suit....
July 17, 2008
In my last prayer letter I shared our experience with our recent pastor’s wives conference. The attached photo is a follow-up event that took place in June. My dear co-laborer, Terry Jackson and her daughter Christine and her friend Elise are in the picture with the Dinka ladies.....
July, 2008
Happy Independence Day! We, in the US, are truly blessed to have enjoyed freedom for 232 years. God has been good to us. As you celebrate and give thanks today, please remember our Sudanese brothers and sisters in Christ. They have not enjoyed this same freedom. After receiving their independence from Britain in 1956, they have only experienced peace for about 10 of those 52 years. Two long standing civil wars have left the South devastated in every way.
June, 2008
Thank you for caring and praying for the Dinka of Southern Sudan. God loves them and cares about them as much as He does us. Surely Isaiah wrote about them in the verse stated above. Their situation is so desperate. Many of them are our brothers and sisters in Christ....
May, 2008
Before dawn, a team of medical volunteers, evangelists and a few of the hospital staff from Akot Medical Mission were ready to head out to a very remote village, Poloch, to hold a bush clinic. We were all loaded up in the trucks and waiting for Samuel, the Kenyan medical officer, who was to accompany us....
May, 2008
Dear Swift Messengers,
Thank you for your faithfulness in lifting up the needs of the people of Southern Sudan. It has been a joy to relay praises to you for the wonderful things that happened on our last trip to Sudan. However, not every experience was joyful. The pictures attached were taken on our clinic day at the jail in Akot......
April, 2008
Recently a team was able to go to the people described by Isaiah, the Dinka of Southern Sudan. One day while there we traveled 3 hours through the bush, without a road, to do a medical clinic, at a cattle camp. Without a local guide we would have definitely been lost and would not have survived long out there in the sun with no water........
March, 2008
Swift Messengers, "Go swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers" Isaiah 18:2........
