If you missed our announcement about their time in South Sudan, you can read it here.
Any good story must endure conflict before there can be resolution. South Sudan has experienced more than its fair share of conflict, and now The World Race is committed to seeing resolution and healing in Jesus Christ.
Landlocked in the middle of African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, and the Congo lies the newly birthed country of South Sudan. A year after its conception, long before many other missions organizations were able to set foot there, Adventures in Missions commissioned its first World Race squads to plant seeds and bring hope to this nation.
In a unique merging of the two squad's "manistry" months, two brotherhoods combined forces and sought Jesus' heart for South Sudan. Hugh Roberts writes,
"The guys that are around me here are an amazing group of powerful men. Having D Squad men combined with E Squad men has been the most gnarly time. The E Squad men arrived at our YWAM base about five days after we had set up shop – they had been staying with a local church the previous week. They bring a huge presence of worship with them and are just some solid guys seeking Jesus with their whole heart."
If you've paid attention to the social justice campaigns of this age, you've probably heard about the genocide going on in the Darfur region of Sudan. In what is nearing a decade-long conflict, millions of Sudanese have lost their lives and millions more have been displaced. Though conflict still plagues the nation, South Sudan's declaration of independence brought hope. At that, the World Race jumped on the chance to join in seeing hope arise. The men of these two squads set the bar high by going into unknown territory and paving the way for future World Race squads to continue ministering to this nation.
Hugh Roberts wrote about their encounter with a dying man at a local hospital:
"As we entered a hospital here in South Sudan, the pastor said, 'I want you to know how you can be praying for our country when you leave.' We have driven by this hospital numerous times and each time I look at it I think to myself, 'I cannot imagine being there.' I have said it outloud to the men, and it still holds true. I cannot imagine what these people are going through…
Once we entered the door a sense of abandon hit me. It felt like a place that people came to die… something stirred within the deepest places of my heart.
Chase said, 'I saw you come alive today.' That was because I have seen my Heavenly Father heal my wounds, physically and spiritually. And, I knew He was ready to do that for every single person in this hospital wing."
You can read more about what God did that day by reading his blog here.
“Once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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