Sudan (MNN) — Sudan tops a list of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters for the third year in a row. David Miliband, CEO of the International Rescue Committee, says the Sudan crisis is now the largest ever recorded.
Millions of people are homeless and cannot meet basic needs like food, water, or shelter. Rape and theft are common, doubling the trauma endured by survivors.
John, a Gospel worker focused on Sudan, says the spiritual side effects are overwhelming.
“That’s what the enemy does. He brings loss upon loss upon loss, and then fear of greater loss, deep, debilitating grief over loss, trying to bring the individual to the point where they believe all is lost,” John says.
Believers are meeting the medical needs of displaced Sudanese in refugee camps. More about that here. “It’s a shipment of medicine; we have distributed so far, 7000 pounds,” John says.
“We’re provided only with medicines, and then we, by faith, take it from there.”
A gift of any amount helps John’s organization – unnamed for security purposes – meet more needs.
Hope and help go hand-in-hand. “We do an open presentation of the Gospel, and it talks about the love of God,” John says.
“It talks about the evil in the world. It talks about what the Bible says God offers to the individual, regardless of the circumstances, and that’s the power.”
Pray for transformation as believers follow up with people in the camps.
“The clinic comes, and then it goes. But the evangelism and church planting team stays there because they are displaced.”
Ask the Lord to strengthen believers and medical teams. They expect to receive a third round of donated medicine in the coming days.
Header image is a representative photo courtesy of unfoldingWord.
