“Please come to my tukel to see my wife. She is very ill and cannot get up from her bed”, pleaded Pilot, one of Akot Christian Ministries employees. Dr Raymond and I made the house call and found that his wife was not ill. She was pregnant, anemic and very weak. There was no food…
Six hundred primary school children in Akot are feasting on the “Word of God”, thanks to the Gideon Society. Akot Christian Ministries is so grateful for the generous shipment of 650 Bibles to our extremely remote village, by the Gideons. In the West we tend to take for granted that our Christian schools will have…
Recently six hundred families from community of Akot fled to the area of their ancestors because of inter-clan fighting. It is very difficult to see 3 of our church congregations displaced as a result of these revenge attacks. These are not statistics, they are our beloved brothers and sisters in Christ. Several leaders of Akot…
Dear SoSu Friends, I just received this picture this morning, and wanted to share it with you. Despite all of the bad news coming from South Sudan our ministry is able to continue our God given mission, which is transforming a community. Several setbacks have resulted in our not being totally ready to start the…
Dear Friends of South Sudan, As Christians we are all busy preparing for the celebration that bears the most significance to faith, the resurrection of our Lord. Easter is celebrated in South Sudan as well. Schools and businesses are closed for more than a week, beginning on Good Friday. Believers everywhere remember the suffering and…
Dear 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. Since mid-December, the worlds newest nation, South Sudan, is experiencing a tremendous increase in violence against civilians. A military attempt to over throw…
At the age of 21, Josephina was destitute. She was the oldest of six orphaned children and married to a drunkard named Moses, a man who rarely came home to their little house in Akot, South Sudan. But when he did, he beat her. She had a toddler to take care of and another child…
This is a question that we are asked frequently. Although there has been no military battle fought in Akot, we are experiencing many setbacks as a result of the political crisis. The two sides that are warring for political control are lead by men from two different tribes. Tension, that has always existed between the…
A week before Christmas an attempted political coup incited tribal violence between the largest tribe, the Dinka, and the Nuer. The Nuer are the second largest tribe, but are much less in number than the Dinka. Earlier this year President Salva Kiir, who is from the Dinka tribe, sacked his Vice President, Dr Riek Machar,…
We are so truly blessed in this country. We have many many things to thank God for everyday. It is good that we set aside a day to reflect on the goodness of God. However, I am afraid most of us take much for granted. In most parts of the world life is much more…
