A man was brought into our clinic by the In Deed and Truth ambulance. He is a 22 year old man having convulsions and bizarre behavior for three days, the village medicine man did not help much with his charms, incantation and animal sacrifices. When he went into coma they felt like a second opinion was in order so the ambulance was called to go about 12 miles to the village. It sounded pretty typical for malaria with convulsions bizarre behavior then lapse into coma. The cases of malaria has dropped with start of dry season. I believe our agressive treatment of malaria is paying off. Malaria is only transmitted to humans from humans by mosquitoes. Therefore if we decrease folks with malaria we decrease source of malaria,I have learned to pick up malaria in older folks who do not get as sick as children and pregnant and nursing mothers but if allowed to carry the parasite serve as source for mosquitoes to pick up parasite and then give malaria to children and preg or nursing women. Everyone have a great Thanksgiving
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Prayer for 7 year old rape victim
Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5
This is a verse that has really ministered to me the last few days as I have struggled with my emotions, thoughts and feelings towards the perpetrator of an unthinkable crime. I have disciplined myself to surrender my thoughts and feelings to Jesus and allow Him to fill my cup back up to a place where I can be effective for the Kingdom. Even after 12 years of serving the people here in Sudan nothing has prepared me for the turmoil I feel inside towards this wrongdoing.
It happened on Saturday evening when a young girl aged only 7 years was left to care for her younger siblings in her mud hut home.
When the mother returned she could not find the girl who has hearing and speech impediments. But soon they heard the sobbing coming from the long grass near the home. The girl was found lying in a pool of blood. The initial reaction was to assume some kind of animal attack but the other children kept telling that it was a man. Our doctors were able to confirm the worst fears, it was in fact a rape.
So many thoughts have crossed my mind but mostly as a mother I feel sick and helpless in my faith. Our senior clinical officer called me early Sunday morning to come and counsel/pray for the family and child. Lord you will need to take over this one as I have no idea what to say or how to encourage them.
Faith comes from hearing and so I read my bible and prayed before going over to the clinic for increased faith to believe in all of God’s promises. So many people were there with this family. I managed to get mum, dad and child alone. As the Lord led we wept, prayed and read the bible together. What started as blaming each other, anger and revenge turned into a time of sorrow and mourning. They were now in a place of being able to turn their attention on the child and not the criminal, whose identity was unknown. We prayed for the Lord to bring him to justice and before we had finished praying we found the man had been identified and ran away. We are praising God for this as it is now only a matter of time before he is caught.
Would you please pray for this family, for their hearts to turn to God, to find forgiveness and to allow the authorities to represent them. Revenge killing is normal for much less crimes than this, which is uncommon in this culture.
Pray for this young girl, that God would heal her tiny body and guard her from any infection, disease or long term damage. Pray she would be freed and not haunted mentally from this trauma.
I plan to visit the family home later this week, pray for me as I have struggled myself and need wisdom and love for all involved. Sabet is still in the USA so I could use some encouragement.
Psalm 145:3 was given to me by my Heavenly Father “Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and His greatness is unsearchable.”
Thanks for praying with us through this difficult time.
Suzy Kuj
Reaching South Sudan for Christ
In Deed and Truth Ministries
www.indeedandtruth.org
San Diego Prayer Walk
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
I was so blessed by those who came to the prayer walk and took of their time to pray and walk together in our annual prayer walk this year. in Shelter Island, San Diego. The blessings of the brothers and sister to come before our mighty God, lifting In Deed and Truth Ministries and the new Republic of South Sudan in prayers and praising God for the answered prayers, what a joy that is. We Had a great time worshiping the Lord together and in intercessory prayer in groups while walking. Great time of fellowship afterward, what a amazing time to see people from as far as Indio to Orange county and here in San Diego area coming together for the Lord in this ministry which we are all co workers and partners.
The encouragement for me is God’s faithfulness through the saints and the believers and churches here in the US, a reminder we are all together proclaiming the gospel whether by prayers or sending or being in the field.
Many blessings and thanks to all of you who prayed for this,
Sabet Kuj
Prayer Walk 2011 in Tonj, South Sudan
Here is the IDAT team and church members today in Tonj, South Sudan praying as part of this year’s prayer walk taking place in San Diego, CA and Panama City, FL. Enjoy the photo’s!
Bye Agum!
Even though Agum (almost 8 years) was not able to travel with us to the UK she did stay with our very dear and precious friends, Bob and Patricia Nyanja in Kenya. There she had a massive 2 week sleepover with their 3 daughters Rahel (8), Akini (5) and Ushi (2)! Loads of fun. Here’s a picture of the gang (minus Ushi) on one of their rare get-togethers when we meet up in Nairobi.
Agum was very OK with us going and she had the option for Daddy to stay behind with her but wanted to stay with the Nyanja’s. She said she only cried once at night when she missed us so much. Seeing her after that long time just brought such a joy to my heart. Next step…adoption!