Arrived Safely in Kapoeta!

So now I am in Kapoeta, Sudan! I just spent the past week in Yei, Sudan with a medical team....It was an amazing experience! The doctors were so humble, kind, and generous with their time and talents! I spent the first day of clinic as the pharmacist and helping to keep the flow going through the clinic. The second day as a nurse, I also had a lot of great opportunities to pray for many people for healing, provision, and for many who are still suffering from mental trauma because of all the war that has been happening here! many of the people are suffering from nightmares and many other post traumatic stress symptoms. Please continue to pray for these people! The following days were filled with a lot of work in the medical clinics and then yesterday, I was able to work on training and discipleship with other church leaders men and women in Bible story telling training! The weather has been VERY HOT! Although the shade of a mango tree provided an entire afternoon of Bible study, training, prayer, and worshiping God. I was able to have some one on one time with the wife of the Pastor of Church of God in Yei to talk about putting together a women's conference in December! I also spent time with a woman named Susan who recently came to know the Lord from a dream she had and has now been coming to a Christian church....she had been Muslim and was the 7th wife of a Muslim man in Kenya she is now raising her 3yo child on her own in Yei, Sudan she speaks English very well and is now working for ARC American Refugee Committee- She has a motor bike and travels through out Yei and surrounding areas teaching about aids awareness, domestic violence, alcohol abuse and women taking responsibility for caring for themselves. Many many of the men have died in wars between North Sudan and South Sudan and tribal wars as well so this means that many many of the women in Sudan are widows. I will be working on ideas for micro finance opportunities for these women as well as lifting them up the the word of God and sharing more Bible stories and women's studies with them! I am really excited about spending Christmas here I brought books to share about the meaning of Christmas and hope to maybe even put together a Christmas play for the kids. Many of the people here are oral learners and love to make up songs, tell stories, and have drama. My prayer for this week in to find at least one women in Kapoeta that I can pour into all that I have prepared and help to lift her up and encourage her in sharing the gospel.

Patricia and I were dropped off in Kapoeta today and we are resting well and Mango Camp. It has rained a lot this evening so I am also praying that things will dry out quickly because we have a team coming from Austin, Tx tomorrow and the air field needs to dry out for them to land safely. It can also be very difficult to travel even by foot if it is too wet. We may have to go to the market and purchase some rain boots! But we will serve the Lord come rain or shine!

So I was finally able to take a shower today! The situation in Yei was very interesting:) I'll have to share photos with you when I can. Picture this a large round green plastic tub heading across the field to the shack where the water is boiled and dipping it out and mixing with some cold water to temp. now off to the stall to stand in a bucket with hot dirty brown water only up to your ankles and using a scoop to pour it over your head! This has been my bath for the past week! Now having all this said arriving at Mango Camp was a GREAT joy! I had running CLEAN water but no heat actually it was very COLD water! So I was thinking to myself......I'm not really sure what is better......dirty hot water.....or clean cold water?????!!!!
Thank you so much for posting notes I really enjoyed reading them tonight! I look forward to more......

In His Service Always-
MJ