Ministry assembles Bible distribution teams in Sudan

Sudan-There's concern growing over lapses in the peace accord between North and South Sudan. A lack of progress in the implementation of key provisions of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) threatens trouble, but not, some government authorities say, a full blown war.The specter unrest raises memories of the losses Christians faced during the war, which included burned churches and destroyed Bibles. In many areas, those Bibles haven't yet been replaced.So, World Gospel Mission's Joy Phillips, in partnership with Samaritan's Purse, is distributing a quarter of million a Bibles to six language groups in the South next year.The Bibles have been shipped from the printers in Korea and are now on the high seas due to reach the port of Mombasa, Kenya, in late December.But the challenge is just beginning. She explains, "The logistics of getting the Bibles here is huge. Even once we get them to Sudan, moving around Sudan is quite a challenge.I'm here in Malakal right now and talking with church leaders.They keep telling us that we have to either fly to certain places or go by river because there are just no roads that are open at this time."They'll be partnering with a church network for the distribution. Training is also in progress for lay church leaders to start reading groups and Bible study groups."One of the things that we need most is prayer, that the Bible will get into the hands of literate people, that their hearts and minds would be open to the Word of God, and that this would be incredibly encouraging as well as challenging, and that the body of Christ, as the church, would be built up." http://www.mnnonline.org/article/10626

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