A friend of mine cried out tonight ‘why, why, why’ in frustration. Last night fighting erupted between two tribes in South Sudan between the Dinka and Nuer. Today, it only worsened. The village is Abwong and we teach a school and carry on ministry activities there.

Tonight as we tried to calm our hearts and minds, my friend again left us with ‘I just want to stand between them and ask ‘why, why, why”. Out of frustration. He went on to explain that he has played football (soccer to us Americans) and has played together with Dinka and Nuer at the same time. His friends are now killing each other.

The SIM property is situated between the areas where the two tribes live in ‘town’ (really a village).

Please pray for calm heads and that peace would prevail. Everyone from SIM was in Nairobi for a Sudan wide retreat, but most have left by now. Two African missionaries have already returned, but by God’s will, only the fathers are there and the rest of their family was a day behind, so they are not there right now. More missionaries are set to go in, but we are now in a holding pattern to see where things go.

Please pray for the missionaries Hezekias and Getachew who are there right now. Seven have died and one was next to the compound.