A New Year, A Fresh Vision!

Welcome to 2012! This past year was full of good times. It was also full of hard times. We learnt a lot about ourselves as a ministry as well as individually. The Lord was faithful to see us through to the end. We have much to be thankful for as we reflect on 2011:

• A peaceful referendum in January and successful election resulting in the birth of the Republic of South Sudan in July.
• The completion of the second year of training for our pastors.
• A partnership with Mango Ministries that has provided us with medical coverage when our staff have needed a break.
• Simply the Story training with outreaches into the bush.
• The purchase of an oxygen concentrator for the clinic.
• The arrival of our ambulance.
• Hosting Tenwek Mission hospital’s cataract surgery clinic resulting in over 170 people receiving sight.
• Individual prayer offered to every patient resulting in more than 500 a month receiving Jesus as their personal Savior.
• Providing critical medical care free of charge to more than 35,000 people.
• Bringing a full-time chaplain for the clinic to minister to patients.
• Partnering with Michezo Afrika to bring Sport’s ministry to the youth through soccer tournaments and leadership training.
• Sending three individuals to Uganda for Community Health Evangelism (CHE pronounced chāy) training.
• New church plant in the village of Gwairai.
• Weekly medical outreach to the village of Maloney.
• Church growth in Tonj resulting in the need for a new location.
• Partnering with AID Sudan to bring a radio tower to Sudan.
• Three successful prayer walk fundraisers to bring awareness, prayer and donations to cover future ministry operations.

We now plow ahead and prepare for the new and we are looking forward to an exciting, fresh, stimulating year doing things from a new and refreshing angle whilst seeking to glorify God.

“And the LORD answered me, and said, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.'” – Habakkuk 2:2

Our focus for 2012 is to build up the CHE ministry and it begins with the development of training teams through “Training of Trainer” workshops. Prayerfully, In Deed and Truth Ministries can become a host for these workshops in Sudan. The CHE’s are trained in physical and spiritual topics to help their neighbors identify problems, find solutions and implement strategies.

Kuj Family Christmas

We (Sabet and Suzy) chose to spend Christmas in Kenya this year to give our family some 1181much needed ‘down time’. This was our first Christmas away from Tonj in three years, which was hard for us to do as we love spending Christmas in Sudan also. But family needs had to come first and with so much time apart this last 6 months we knew we needed to reconnect and spend time away from our compound and work. As it was a last minute decision, we were blessed by Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) who diverted a charter airplane to collect our family from Tonj. Africa Inland Mission (AIM) were also kind to offer us a four bedroom furnished home used for their own missionaries in transition. This has been an amazing blessing for our children especially. We’ve had a wonderful time of fellowship with friends, our church family here and have been able to join in all the Christmas church activities. Attending the candlelight carol concert with a picnic was very fun! But being able to go to church Christmas Eve and Day was awesome. We baked cookies for MAF and AIM and thanked them for their sacrificial service to missionaries like us living in the bush. Without these support services we could not survive each day in Sudan. Christmas Day was a joy to entertain 12 people by hosting a dinner for missionary friends also working in Sudan. December 30th we celebrated Hannah’s 10th Birthday (pictured) by spending a day swimming in a pool. She then had a double party with her old friends (one whom also turned 10). New Year was relaxed with Kenyan friends sipping chai, eating baked potatoes and worshipping the Lord around the bonfire. We are so thankful for this time of refreshment and fellowship. We are so thankful for each one of you for being a blessing and joy in our life.

We wish each and every one of you a glorious, blessed New Year!

Prayer Requests

• Pray for wisdom and the Lord’s will to prevail as we lead the team into 2012.
• Pray for the transformation of individuals/villages as we send out CHE trainers.