Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Sudan

Mattsson-Boze
Moses Okeny reports that he is visiting 3 places in southern Sudan regularly. He has good contact with the military, and has seen many come to Christ. He has about 120 people in his church (80 men, and 40 "female" in his quaint way of speaking).
He recently moved into Sudan (or rather "New Sudan") after the peace accords had been signed. His family is with him. But he still needs to travel by military convoy.
We are investigating the security situation because of our planned trip in August. Phil and I will go together with my nephew Joel Mattsson-Boze and possibly Milton McElvain. But we will give careful consideration to the security issues. We have good contact with the intelligence people in the Ugandan army, and Moses is known to the military in southern Sudan as well. Both groups are quite sympathetic to what we are doing in training village pastors.
When I was in Nimule, Sudan a few years ago, we heard the soldiers doing their drills at 5 in the morning, singing Christian songs.