Sudan (MNN) — Sudan’s government returns to the capital for the first time in three years as fighting intensifies near the southern border. The latest clashes between military and rebel forces have uprooted tens of thousands of people.
The UN says two-thirds of Sudan’s population will need help to survive another year. Children are disproportionately affected, with 55 percent of displaced people being under the age of 18.
Hope remains for Sudan, but not because the government says that 2026 will be a “year of peace.” Instead, a different source offers a more optimistic outlook.
“God is at work in our fallen world,” says a Gospel worker we’ll call John.
“He is not silent, not powerless. He is bringing people to Himself in the worst of times.”
Help for the hopeless
Sudanese church planters and medical teams bring donated medicines to displacement camps in Sudan and South Sudan. More about that here.
“The last bit of medicine that we had in this second shipment went to an orphanage outside of Juba,” John says.
Sudan refugees
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More than 900 children call the facility home, and “this orphanage encapsulates what’s happening everywhere we go,” John says.
“About 15 percent of the children are suffering from what they call night blindness, and it is caused most times by an extreme deficiency of vitamin A,” he continues.
“The children were covered with sores and lesions from malnutrition and poor hygiene.”
“Critical edge of death”
Famine is widespread in Sudan as a result of the war. Children at the orphanage only get “one meal a day, and it is a small thing of beans and cornmeal. Because they’re not getting iron, there is a large, large percentage with anemia,” John says.
You can help by supporting Sudanese church planters through John’s organization.
“We’ve decided to do a four-month effort and then see what God does. So, we’re going to provide meat for those 907 children every week, and multiple vitamins for each one of them,” John says.
“We’re purchasing some of the protein meals that the UN uses to get these children under five away from that critical edge of death.”
As the children received medical care through the latest outreach, they heard about a God who loves them. Pray that these Gospel seeds will take root.
“Anyone who gets involved with the suffering of displaced people in the world is up for a great blessing,” John says.
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