Posted on 03/14/2017 2:18:49 AM PDT by huldah1776
Rebels in South Sudan have reportedly abducted eight aid workers with the Christian humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse. The group is led by Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham.
According to a military official, the kidnappers are demanding food as ransom.
****snip***** "Samaritan's Purse confirms that some of our South Sudanese staff in the Mayendit area of South Sudan have been detained by armed personnel. We have been in contact with them and they have not been harmed."
Late last month, South Sudan's government and UN agencies said several counties, including Mayiandit, were facing severe famine.
***snip***
"The famine in South Sudan is man-made," Stephen O'Brien, a United Nation's spokesman said. "Parties to the conflict are parties to the famine - as are those not intervening to make the violence stop."
Samaritan's Purse has been working in South Sudan for many years.
"The nation has the potential to be considered the bread basket of East Africa, yet is now experiencing significant food shortages because of civil strife," Samaritan's Purse' website claims.
The aid group says ongoing violence and insecurity "have made it nearly impossible for civilians to plant and harvest crops."
(Excerpt) Read more at 1.cbn.com ...
No. . but you do feed your enemy. IF they would just simply
ASK of God, instead of Allah, to meet their need for food
and drink - God - Yahweh, Yeshua Ha Maschiach, would feed
them! - Depart from the evil of kidnapping!
Prayers answered. Praise God! May God continue to bless FG & SP.
Christ commands it. For some it’s their calling.
Matthew 17-20
The Great Commission
16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
They go because the Lord of their faith has commanded that they go to preach the good news to all nations. What the people in those nations do with the kindness shown them will be judged by God. Some will prosper spiritually with Christ in their lives...others will reject it. God isn’t concerned with nationalities or artificial social constructs, he is gathering from all nations a people who worship him in “spirit and in truth”...a people, a church, a bride if you will that transcends time and this matter universe! That is why the “churchians” go and do what they do. Christianity grew at first in the “filthy back waters” of the Roman empire, and it took root in a world full of pain and without benefit of anesthetics, a hopeless world raw and savage! Yet as the scriptures state...”To as many as believed gave HE the power to become the sons of God”.
Praise be to our Heavenly Father!!!
Thank you for the wonderful update!
hmmm. I wonder if any of those who cried out “Crucify Him!” were in the crowds of 4 and 5 thousand that He fed? If He hadn’t fed them, when they stood before His thrown, He couldn’t say, “Did I not feed you and show you a miracle?”
I think that we are both correct. Many denominations are in the relief business. If we are obedient to Christ, we extend Love and Practical Help.
LOL
Yes, they move a lot of shoeboxes around. God Bless!
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Praise God! Thank you for the update. We prayed today that there would be conversions...Or at least some seeds planted.
From another article in your link, about Sudan Christians returning to THEIR country:
In addition to church planting and family discipleship programs, Operation Nehemiah also runs a brick-making factory, agricultural development initiatives and other numerous projects—all in an effort to rebuild the local economy and empower war-weary residents.
“As the Bible says, ‘If you don’t work, you don’t eat.’ So people are beginning to create sustainable living for themselves,” William said.
His goal: rebuild South Sudan one family and one village at a time.
“We want them to stay in the village so we create for them an environment where they can foster entrepreneurial ventures and be able to support their families.”...
Operation Nehemiah provides clean water to tens of thousands of villagers. They also run a medical clinic with help from American missionary Jonathan Lueken.
Lueken is from Massachusetts. He met the Levi family in 2009 and decided to join them in rebuilding South Sudan....
In between school, chores, Bible studies and church activities, the Levis also cultivate 200 acres of land, growing all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
Levi insists that farming should be a family affair, in which “parents and children work together to create a thriving, Christ-centered community.”....
“For 30 years our people have stayed in refugee camps and they’ve depended on handouts from the U.N.,” William said. “Now God has given us a land and a country and we want to see to it that we are able to produce food from here and be able to give back to those who have given us when we were in our our difficult time.”
From another article in your link, about Sudan Christians returning to THEIR country:
In addition to church planting and family discipleship programs, Operation Nehemiah also runs a brick-making factory, agricultural development initiatives and other numerous projects—all in an effort to rebuild the local economy and empower war-weary residents.
“As the Bible says, ‘If you don’t work, you don’t eat.’ So people are beginning to create sustainable living for themselves,” William said.
His goal: rebuild South Sudan one family and one village at a time.
“We want them to stay in the village so we create for them an environment where they can foster entrepreneurial ventures and be able to support their families.”...
Operation Nehemiah provides clean water to tens of thousands of villagers. They also run a medical clinic with help from American missionary Jonathan Lueken.
Lueken is from Massachusetts. He met the Levi family in 2009 and decided to join them in rebuilding South Sudan....
In between school, chores, Bible studies and church activities, the Levis also cultivate 200 acres of land, growing all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
Levi insists that farming should be a family affair, in which “parents and children work together to create a thriving, Christ-centered community.”....
“For 30 years our people have stayed in refugee camps and they’ve depended on handouts from the U.N.,” William said. “Now God has given us a land and a country and we want to see to it that we are able to produce food from here and be able to give back to those who have given us when we were in our our difficult time.”
In that article it said something about how folks that could be moved WERE moved. I’m guessing that meant the foreigners? I imagine that SP has many (mostly?) locals involved in their outreach, and that it was these locals that were kidnapped???
wow. Should be done in S.America, eh? I do think there will be a great worldwide revival before the Great Tribulation but the spiritual war here is at its worst. I read of repentance and conversion in pockets all over the world. As the MSM portrays the horrors, God is moving to counter the evil.
not sure if local or foreign.
Or maybe not. I once worked overseas and our equipment was held “hostage” by the local customs agents. The company we worked for said no way would they pay the bribe as that just sets a precedence.
Anyway, from SP:
...in the Mayendit area of South Sudan for more than two years.
In February alone, we distributed food to more than 100,000 people there. However, we removed most of our area staff two weeks ago as it became apparent that fighting was going to begin. Those who were detained are residents of the Mayendit area.
Because of local fighting in the region, we have had to temporarily halt our food distributions. Please pray that God will enable us to restore our teams back to Mayendit and resume ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of the people there.
Thanks, prayers up.
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