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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Understanding Darfur

Have you been following the conflict in Darfur in western Sudan where thousands of people are being cruelly and systematically wiped out? If so, you might know that many Christian groups -- including high school students -- have joined others in efforts to step in and stop the raping and killing. MTVu has this "game" on their site to try to help users understand the near hopelessness of the refugees living in camps and under attack there.

Are you a part of a church, youth group, school group, or some other group trying to raise money or awareness and prayer to save the people of Darfur? If so, tell us what you're doing and why.

1 Comments:

Joshua said...

My name's Josh and I work at Burke Community Church as the Jr. High Director. My Senior Pastor was a missionary in China for 10+ years, so he's always been very involved with worldwide issues. As a church, we've always had deep roots in Africa (many of us have gone over, and we support missionaries that started with us that now live in Africa) and when the conflict in Darfur became something we all knew about, our church couldn't sit still.

We're located about 20 mins. outside of Washington D.C., so we've got a lot of military and political influence in our church. It's been amazing to see how God has used that to touch the people in Darfur. So far, even though President Bush's emissaries to the Sudan failed to reach the Darfur leadership, we've been able to send former congressmen, generals, and other leaders to meet with leaders in that area, even the Governor of Darfur.

Right now we're setting up a team to go over to the Sudan, possibly this summer. What's really neat is that the guy heading up the trip is the father of one of my Jr. High student's. What makes that so cool, is that his son was adopted...

From Ghana, Africa. I actually met him when he was an orphan in Accra, Ghana, at the orphanage our missionary family runs.

I tell you, God is able to do exceedingly and abundantly more than we could ever ask or imagine...

and I can't wait to see what He does next...

4:36 PM  

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