Exploring the South and West - Part 1

This week we find ourselves in Western Equatoria State of South Sudan. This state is in the south and west part of the country.

We began this adventure on Monday and we are still on the road. The first day we almost turned around and headed back to Rumbek when we saw the condition of the road ahead.  It seemed pretty heavily flooded, yet we thought that perhaps it was just a small section.  Jerry locked the wheels into 4-wheel drive, put it in low gear and started out.

We always start each journey with prayer before we head out; and each day of the journey is covered in prayer as well.  Well, I can tell you that as we began down this road we were really following the verse in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 which says to “pray continually”, and also pray fervently!  We were almost stuck at one point.

We had stopped and looked at the road ahead trying to decide which path would be best through a particularly bad part; Jerry followed Debbie’s suggestion which was a mistake.  Jerry had to rock the vehicle back and forth to get us out, but by God’s mercy we made it out. We were literally in the middle of nowhere. If we had gotten stuck there it would have been at least a 10 mile walk out and honestly I don’t even want to think of what we could have done to get the car out, I can’t even imagine it. We certainly experience God’s grace, protection and provision on these trips.

Here are some friends who came up from Yei and met us in Maridi, Pastor Mullai and Charles.  There is a plan to plant a church here. Charles will finish his studies in August, move up and begin the effort. Maridi is actually his hometown and it is his desire to come back and bring the Gospel message to his own people.





There will be more to come as we continue this particular adventure so stay tuned.

Pray for Pastor Mullai as he works with E3 partners to train leaders and send them out with the gospel message.

Pray for Charles as he finishes his studies and begins a church planting effort in Maridi, South Sudan.

Pray for us as our journey continues.