DarjeelinGirl

In conjunction with my review below about William O. Levi’s book The Bible or the Axe, my friend Amy who is ministering in Sudan as I blog this has given me permission to use clips of her emails. Amy testifies how hard it is for these people. We can also see how God is using people like William and Amy (and us!) in Sudan:

September 9, 2005
[T]he property we are on is beautiful. 2 miles down from us is a logging camp. [I]t is terrible to watch the forest surrounding us disappear. [T]he fear here is that it brings the desert closer… [W]e did an open air preaching for the loggers camp. [I]t was hard. [I]t is mostly men with few wives and children. [T]he men were mostly drunk and heavy smokers. [T]hey view women as sexual objects. [T]hey have a hard life with not much to live for. [T]hey work 24\7 from early morning to late night. [P]lease pray for these people they need a hope and a reason to live.

At one point in the beginning of October, for reasons Amy couldn’t get into, the camp did have to break and move back into town where is was safer. What she told us shortly before the move was

[I] was just at a [UN] meeting and they said the security level may go back up. they said they have heard of LRA movements. [T]hey said the LRA would be coming from east to west, but they could come from [DRC] (Democratic Republic of Congo)as well. [A]lso the LRA in Congo did not disarm so congo government is threatening to disarm them and other groups. They said they would start next week with this plan. If things get bad, those groups might be fleeing and fighting out of Congo. This was the update. The UN wants us to check daily with them to see what the security level is. I will let you know more later.

For the time, that danger passed and they were able to move back to the mission area. Terrorists aren’t the only worries they have, however:

Octopber 29, 2005
[W]e also need prayer for staff and students. [W]e have people with different types of worms, malaria, and other tropical diseases… Please pray [G]od keeps us safe from all of that. [P]ray that God heals all the ill staff and students.

Finally, I just received this this morning:

November 8, 2005
we are in week nine of our mission training school. we have had a week of teaching on what the holy spirit is and the giftings that come from Him. we also … taught on what worship was and how to enter into it. last week we had teaching on marriage, parenting, conflict resolution, diciplining your children, and i can’t remember what else. i loved that week. i learned much about the african culture on how they raise kids. this austrailian couple taught it. they used the bible as the way to teach. …

this week has been rather hard. there have been a couple of NGOs (Non-Government Organization) that have been killed recently by the LRA (bad guys). the most recent was a married couple with small children. they killed the husband in front of the pregnant wife and children. got them all out of the vehicle and then burned the vehicle. the whole family including the [deceased] was later (after a hospital visit) airlifted out of sudan. this has raised the security level here. the UN is saying that the LRA are now attacking the NGOs (targeting). Please pray for this family and the NGO group they worked with. it has been hard on everyone.

According to World Magazine, LRA stands for “Lord’s Resistance Army” and it is lead by a mad man who claims to use the Bible for what he does. Obviously, if he can read it at all, he’s using it backwards. He has got to be every wicked man and woman in the Bible all rolled into one, starting with Lucifer himself.

And because of Amy’s email, this news article is more than just news, it’s real life. Let us keep Amy and the people she works with coated in continual prayer. Let us also pray for and support men like William O. Levi. There is no reason that Sudan, let alone Africa, should have to suffer such darkness.

Lord, shine Your Light, pour out Your Spirit, let Your Reign come down.

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