Despite the Covid-19 Lockdown in the refugee camps, the two evangelists Jackson Alikanga & Doru Alex reached out to the neighborhood at the Morobi camp, a refugee’s settlement in the Obongi district. God has put into the hearts of these men a desire to share the Gospel with the community. One morning, the two evangelists went with their Bibles to reach out to their first home, they were welcomed, and both were given chairs to sit and share the Gospel with four people and two of them gave their lives to Jesus Christ.
The next home they went to was in the Morobi settlement camp. As the family welcomed them the police showed up and told them that they are under arrest. There were two charges against them. The first was that they illegally gathered people in the community during a time when the government had issued an order for churches and big gatherings to stop operating. The second charge was that they were resisting against the president’s orders for churches to close.
They were tied up quickly and taken to the police and were given a chance to write a statement to explain what exactly happened. They stated that they were sharing the Gospel in the refugee camps and with their neighborhood and suddenly the police arrested them and now they are here. The police officer warned them not to gather people again.
After they were released, they immediately started preaching to the police officers, and one of them accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and savior. Pray for these new friends who come to faith. Pray that they grow in the knowledge of God and pray for the two evangelists to continue to be bold in sharing their faith with lost people in the refugee camps.
I greet you all in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray for the ministry that God began in South Sudan. We pray that the Lord will expand our limits in 2020. Thank you for your prayers and help in the refugee camps in Uganda. We really appreciate the fact that you are nearby and support us in this distress.
The Lord is faithful, we planted 12 new churches in one year. We had 1,119 people baptized. More than 11,000 people have heard the Gospel from our evangelists and then fifteen hundred of them accepted Christ as the Savior. The Lord showed his authority in the freeing of 23 people from demonic dependence. About 40 people returned to the church after the retreat. We thank God for the two evangelists who resumed their ministry in the church of Kajokeci. Due to hostilities, the ministry was terminated in January 2017.
One amazing story happened to a woman named Yakisuk. She was posessed with demons for a long time, and relatives paid money to the witches in Congo to free her. Our brother went to their village and preached the Gospel. When he prayed for her freedom, Yakisuk fainted. Everybody thought she was dead. After she regained consciousness, she stood up – healed and free from the power of Satan. The family and Yakisuk herself were very sorry that they had not turned to Christ earlier. After all, He gives true freedom and doesn’t take money for it but does it all by His grace and love. Continue to pray for revival in Uganda and Sudan.
Greetings my friends, our Gospel preaching is not limited to one place. We thank God that the ministry began in Sudan in the highly populated areas of the southern Blue Nile, in the areas of Ingessana, Uddu and Jumdzhum. A wide door for the Gospel was opened in northern Sudan, and we are so grateful that God used our disciples, Abdel, Saddam, Jalfu, Gadir, Abusaal, and others to reach the local population.
Last August, we visited churches in Sudan and heard about the persecution of our leaders, pastors, and ordinary believers. Pray for Pastor Abusaal. His Father-in-law, had learned that he had become a Christian, he took his wife and children, saying that he would return them only after Abusaala converted back to Islam! His wife, not believing in Christ, also doesn’t want to continue to live with him. Abusaala is now looking for money to pay his parents in law to buy out the children. He needs to pay $600 to get his children back. They wanted to sue Abusaal for adopting Christianity, and he was to appear before an Islamic court in Maban. Please pray for him!
Many Blue Nile residents are refugees in northeastern South Sudan, and they are among the people who were not able to reach Sudan. Pray for awakening in this region of the country and about opening new churches. Also, for existing communities, which today, among the hatred and hostility of the local population, perform ministry in the name of Christ.
Vicki, a widow from South Sudan who currently lives with her four children in the “Bidi – Bidi” refugee camp in northern Uganda has finally received her long-awaited prosthesis! As we wrote in our previous update, she lost her right arm after an accident, which further aggravated the situation of her family!
After getting Vicki to know, we promised to help her with the prosthesis and buy her a mechanical embroidery machine. When we were returning from Moyo to the capital, Kampala, Vicki traveled with us. A day later, she was already at the doctor’s office at the Hospital. And a few weeks later, she was finally done, and now has a temporary, but artificial arm. Now she can finally work with both arms, to sew and but also support the material with the other.
Vicki loves embroidering patterns for a tablecloth and, until recently, she had to do everything with her left hand. She spends hours on this painstaking and delicate work so that she can sell it at the local market and buy food for herself and her children. At the end of May, we found a mechanical embroidery machine in Kampala and bought it for Vicki. We believe that the machine will help her to provide for her family!
Thank you for not forgetting the orphans and widows!
About 250,000 people live in the Bidi-Bidi refugee camp. This is one of the biggest camps in the world. Life in the camp is hard. Some have a small vegetable garden, and they are trying to grow something to survive. Some make clay bricks, burn them, and then sell them to earn an extra penny.
In the camp is a market where people are trying to sell something in order to buy additional food. Others save money to go to the city. A trip on a private motorcycle costs about $20 and for most, it is impossible to pay! The road from the camp to the city is rocky, there is no asphalt and that’s why it’s hard to get there.
It is especially hard for widows who raise children alone and do not know how to feed them. They are still lacking food, although no one is dying of starvation. Vicki became a widow many years ago. Her husband, a former military man, was found murdered in his own house. She takes care of the children as best she can. After she got in a car accident while sitting on the back of a truck, she hurt her arm so severe that it had to be amputated!
After meeting with Vicki, we promised to help her with the prosthesis and to buy her a mechanical sewing machine. Vicki traveled with us when we returned from Moyo to the capital, Kampala. The next day, she was already seeing a doctor at the Hospital. Before we met her, she was in despair, thinking that she had been abandoned by God, but now, through your participation, God takes special care of her heart! Thank you very much!
