We thank God and also you for praying with us regarding the accident in Tonj which happened on Sunday 12^th February. The survivors who were rushed to Wau Hospital in critical condition are feeling much better now. They are also happy and together with their families they thank God and also In Deed and Truth Ministries for taking them to Wau with the ambulance and for buying the medicines for them.

Please pray for Nyok Deng Mayiik who was one of the patients in that accident and was taken to Wau. We have not succeeded in reaching his relatives. Awad our compound guard took some clothes to him and also bought medicines for him and he is very thankful to God and our Ministry.

A certain man heard about the accident on Sunday night and he was told his son died in the accident. He came to our clinic to take the body to his home but he was astonished to find his son alive. Bilal Amac was doing okay and was regaining enough strength so that he could even speak. His father danced for joy and all who were there in the clinic were excited and rejoiced with him. He asked our doctors to help him to transfer his son to the Wau hospital.

“Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. One generation will commend your works to another, they will tell of your mighty acts.” – Psalms 145:3-4

Holy Spirit we invite you to come and intercede on our behalf and stir hearts to pray for our clinic staff, survivors and families of those who died.

Another car accident. This time head on at high speed with two full land cruisers. Both drivers were killed intantly along with 14 others just 20 minutes from Tonj town. The survivors, 11 men, 2 women and one 3 year old boy were critically injured and brought to our clinic, the only open medical facility with professional medical staff within 100 miles. One man and the child died while being treated by our staff.

The In Deed and Truth ambulance went to the scene of the accident three times bringing victims to our clinic for assessment and treatment. It is now on it’s way to Wau hospital but will need to make 2 more trips or maybe three with those that we can not help. Pray for the driver and it’s 70 miles one way and three hours on a dirt road. The injuries are so severe we are not sure even Wau hospital will be able to assist them. It is overwhelming, please pray.

“Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

One family of six traveling together lost four people. It is so sad. These frequent deadly collisions are too common and we ask you to intercede. Sabet has spoken with the commissioner and they plan to meet and address the need for some controls on the road. Pray for wisdom and favor as our tiny rural clinic can not cope with these large medical emergencies.

Monday the 6th turned out to be a quite amazing day. It started as a normal busy Monday lots of patients waiting to be seen. At noon at went to government  hospital and scrubbed a hernia repair with Mike. After surgery we saw more people at clinic and then I popped pop corn for dinner. Then a truck (a big truck) pulled up to clinic filled with 13 persons injured when a packed land Rover flipped after blowing a tire. There were smashed in faces Broken bones and other trauma. The whole staff went to work everyone pitching in as best they could. Our observation room was already filled so we had mats everywhere to lay patients on. Only one community health worker was on duty and I knew we were in trouble but within a short time many of the workers came in to interpret and give medical assistance (I love those guys). It was sure great having Mike Stick working with us. I evaluated abcs airway breathing circulation then I started setting and splinting fractures. In several hours all patients were stable. Around 11:30 I said to Mike if no one drifts off to death tonight it would be something. I then got called to do a D&C on woman with a retained placenta who had walked 2-3 hours to clinic after miscarriage of a 5 month gestation pregnancy. At 12:30 I went to bed and slept like a baby. On Tuesday AM all the patients from wreck were doing fine as were all the patients in our packed observation room. I was so grateful to our mighty God for blessing us so. I was filled with joy, joy, joy. What a thrill when we are blessed with patients getting better. I personally take no pride in these things I just thank God for His blessing. God lets us be used to help others. Today I said to Dennis and Pritty that it is a good thing In Deed and Truth Ministries is here cause where would all these people go for health care. No pride we are just thankful we can be used. I told Mike the surgeon that to be useful God had to send us where we could be used. We were expendible in the USA but here we are useful. Thank you Lord and thank you Sabet and Suzy in all you sacrificed to get this place going.

Our clinic is very busy since last evening after 13 patients were brought to our clinic yesterday after they had an accident. The car was coming from Rumbek to Tonj and was hired by a man named Ding. The car had a puncture and as the driver tried to control it, it overturned several times. This happened in Morol Akech in Northern Barl Ghazal near Mapel approximate 160 miles away from Tonj. These young men who were riding in the car were hired to come to Tonj to make bricks.

Our medical staff of Dr. Tom, Dennis, Margaret, Stephanie, Pritty together with Dr. Stick were alerted and they all joined hands to save these lives. Praise God for our community health workers because when they heard about the accident they came as fast as they could to give hand. Two of these patients were badly injured, one had a head fracture and the other one his hand is badly injured. Albino and I went to pray for these patients and shared shortly about God and some of them agreed to be coming to our church every Sunday and said they trust God because saved them from the accident. Five of them need to be transferred to Wau for further treatments but the rest might be discharged today or tomorrow. Please pray for these young men to be healed and to accept Jesus as their personal savior.

We thank God no one died but there is one young man missing because they were fourteen in number. Pray for these young men to be healed and the missing one to be found. Also we have surgeries going on with Dr Stick and the team, please pray for God’s divine intervention in these two areas.

God bless you for your generous contribution and for praying for this ministry.

“For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” – Ephesians 2:10

– The Tonj Team