Our ministry here in
South Sudan is 85% youth based. Raising vibrant youth and Christian students’
movements for the global harvest out of Sudan and for Sudan, is one of our
primary objectives. 
We’ve seen tremendous growth in the last 5years.
We’ve seen many students come to Jesus. We’ve seen them graduate and continue
in The Way; being channels of blessing to their families, churches and
community. We’ve also had huge difficulties following up on hundreds of converts.
I beg to leave this to your imagination.
But we believe we are at the threshold of
something great; we cannot find a word for it yet, but we sense the Lord is
nudging us to take this work to another level by focusing on breeding disciples
which is quite different from making converts. We see our greatest challenge to
date, here.
This necessitated a change
of strategy; thus, the proposed students’ camp this season; instead of our
usual one or two day(s) conference meetings. The camp is scheduled to hold from
23rd to 29th May 2010 at the Yei Teacher Training College. We
hope to organize one every year subsequently.
Our students’
conferences in the past have awakened the students to the need for prayer,
Bible study and fellowship. All 13 secondary schools and even some primary
schools now hold Scripture Union fellowships weekly. Some have theirs more than
once a week. We are looking forward to a time when it will be every lunch hour,
in every school, everyday. Com’on Jesus!!
But there must be something
more; more than just fellowship meetings with youthful singers, prayer times
and sharing of Scriptures. Deliberate discipling, with emphasis on intimacy
with Jesus and building trust relationships that will transcend the camp ground
with radical positive change are our goals. We will spend more time engaging the
participants in small groups, hoping to address their general and individual issues.
We have limited the number of participants to
200 students; from all 13 secondary schools here in Yei. It will be good to have less than 200; more than this will be a great challenge. But we welcome
every challenge with faith in a God that can do beyond our wildest dreams and
hopes.
Earlier this week, we
managed to negotiate the “unexpected” bill for the accommodation for
the camp (which we thought would be free) from $4,360 to $2,200 for 200
students. This is not inclusive of their feeding and other materials needed for
the camp, which we’ve budgeted at $5,500 bringing the total to $7,700. Our
initial budget was $3,000. We were misinformed.
$2,500 has been
raised so far, we’ll need the balance of $5,500 in less than 3weeks from now. God
is able! With an exchange rate of 2.75spds/$ things are pretty expensive here.
However, we believe every time and treasure sent and spent is worth this cause.
We are therefore appealing to you to
donate towards this camp here. This fund raising site
was created on our behalf by Adventures In Missions.
All donations are tax deductible. If you prefer to send a check, please
send to: Adventures In Missions, P.O.Box 534470, Atlanta, GA 30353-4470
and PLEASE indicate in the memo line, “Students’ Holiday Camp in
Sudan” Kindly call toll free: 1-800-881-2461 ext 270 for confirmation.
For those in Nigeria, kindly pay into: GT
Bank Account No. 202-142979-110; Uche and Sola Izuora.
In anticipation of
your donations and prayers, we say thank you and God bless you!
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