Highlights of Africa - Part III

We began in Liethnohm, in Gogrial County, in Southern Sudan for a three-day pastor’s conference and approaching landing on the dirt runway, we saw a large gathering of people, greeting us with songs of praise, dancing, and one waiving a white flag with a cross. They had eagerly awaited our arrival and were showing us such great hospitality and welcome!

They have very little means there in Liethnohm. In fact, this was a place we could not even go when I was in Sudan in the Spring, because of the war. We were shown to our rooms – mud huts, two to a hut – and then began meetings and planning for the conference. The conference was held under a large shade tree. Many pastors and men who wanted to be pastors and evangelists came, some made long journeys by foot, because they wanted to know more about God and they wanted to be encouraged in their faith.

In addition to the three days our group spent with pastors, there was another group: women from the region who have been affected by rape, war, disease, famine, terror. These women need to be comforted, strengthened, and given Hope.