Once a year, the missionaries from each country get together to have their own recoup time. It’s a time for prayer, spiritual healing/awakening/refreshment, and a time to get to see the whole team together. Many of them never see each other but for this one time every year because they work in such remote areas.

The team is extremely diverse with missionaries from Ethiopia, Wales, New Zealand, England, Kenya, Canada and America. This creates such a unique experience while doing God’s work for his kingdom.

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Wow, what a trip. We’ll be getting out a letter to all of you soon and to those of you on our email list, you’ll get an email as well. I’ve got a lot of video and photos to show everyone. Over the coming days, the photos will be all up on my Flickr account you can access to the right. I’ll be doing little 2 minute videos about different things that happened when we were in Sudan and hope to get those up about once a week. Here’s a cool photo of me shooting video of some kids in Atar.

I had set up my camera on the path they were all walking down on. All of the sudden, one kid runs up and screams back to the rest and they all look up and see me and begin to run toward me. At first there were maybe a dozen, slowly inching toward me, as they wanted to be toward the front. Eventually about 60 kids were surrounding me all yelling, screaming and laughing. You’ll see the video eventually.

I (Taylor) wanted to share with you about some recent developments within SIM USA in regards to media in Sudan. There has been a recent push by a department that specifically reaches out to large donors. They are taking a trip themselves to Sudan in a week to film many of the projects going on and interview both people doing the projects and those being impacted by the projects. Most of the projects in Sudan directly serve the physical needs of some very war hardened Sudanese. The goal is to empower them so that they can be self sustaining. Through doing these various projects, we hope to impact the people personally and gain their trust so that Christ’s love will be evident and opens the door for salvation and all that comes with becoming a Christ follower.

All of that to say, there is a large push to create a lot of media for Sudan to share with donors. As many of you know, Sudan is in the world’s spotlight right now, not just by the US. We hope that these new methods of communication cannot only be used in and by the US office, but other SIM offices around the world to highlight the needs in Sudan and get more people involved around the world in the work Christ body is beginning. The encouragement comes in that many more people are getting involved in Sudan through the use of media and even before I’m officially “active” with SIM, I am being invited to take part in work already being done there. There is a chance that even before I go active, I will be helping post production (editing) on a lot of the video which will be acquired this summer.

Please pray for much of the ground work being done right now for the projects SIM has envisioned. It is only through your prayers, your financial donations and God’s favor that makes these thing happen.

Read more about Rebuilding Southern Sudan: Church & Nation.

A typical school in Southern Sudan.

We recently received some preliminary reports of the financial support for the month of May. I was completely WOWed. We have full funding for our summer needs and look forward to sharing with you all in the fall about our time in Sudan. Thank you to each of you who have been contributing both financially and prayerfully.

We look forward to taking some time to listen for God’s feedback and learn from what He will be showing us this summer. Your prayers have been encouraging and our time in Sudan will be a trying time as we experience a new culture, language, traditions, tribes, way of life and certainly spiritual warfare like we have never experienced. SIM is built on prayer, as their tag line reminds us. We need your prayers. Without them and without God’s favor we can do nothing.

For His Glory!

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