Happy New Year!
As we celebrate the New Year, we thank God for YOU our partners and supporters. It’s because of you we are now going into our 26th year of serving in Tonj, South Sudan!! We are so grateful for the way you supported us in prayer and partnered financially with the vision of In Deed and Truth Ministries. 2024 was a great year and also a very fruitful one! We celebrated 25 years of ministry in South Sudan and graduated our first class from the Tonj Bible Institute!
Here’s a recap of how the Lord used us in 2024 and impacted an entire community for the Kingdom of God.
In 2024, our Maternal Child Mission Hospital treated over 60,000 patients, a 30% increase from 2023.
We saw over 12,000 pregnant mothers, an increase of 1,200 since 2023. We delivered 922 babies in a safe environment, which is a growth of 15% from the year before.
Lamentations 3:22-24 says, The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
We vaccinated thousands of children and cared for 3,978 in-patients who were admitted to our ward, which is almost 1,300 more than last year. Many of these were premature babies in need of oxygen and an incubator. This huge increase is why we are building a second ward, starting construction as soon as possible in 2025.
Suzy with a IDAT Ward baby
IDAT continues to be the only hospital in Tonj with incubators and oxygen, rabies vaccines, snake anti-venom and x-ray. Our 24-hour care literally saved hundreds of lives physically but we also poured into each patient spiritually, making sure every patient was prayed for and heard the gospel. Many prayed to receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior before going home or being discharged from the ward.
CHE!
Our Community Health Evangelism (CHE) program went from 70 to 96 villages in 2024. CHE continues to impact and transform these villages through health lessons and evangelism.
In those 96 villages, we trained 6,895 CHE volunteers who made 83,362 home visits teaching people about Jesus. As a result, 21,924 people made decisions to follow Jesus; 136 bible listening groups were meeting, 25 village schools were started, 68 CHE community gardens were planted, 12 community boreholes were drilled to provide safe drinking water.
Our village medical outreach teams treated and vaccinated over 10,000 patients! We are excited to continue to expand our CHE program to reach 140 villages in 2025!!
Church Plants!
Thank you for praying for our church planting ministry, for sponsoring pastors, so we can reach more people with the gospel.
CC Tonj Prayer Night
We have 40 church plants, and 50 pastors, some still in need of sponsorship. 7.500 decisions for Christ and 1,500 of those new believers got baptized. To sponsor an IDAT pastor go to: https://pastors.indeedandtruth.org/.
Altogether 2024 was a fantastic year!