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Appeal
People devastated by war desperately need your help. Please.
When rulers wage war the weak and vulnerable suffer most. Men, women and children caught up in the ordeal of conflict need your generous help to discover God’s amazing love.
Children of SudanCaught up in years of violence – including abduction, murder and rape.
Their pain is multiplied due to the anger of adults who have experienced the same harrowing events.
But lives are changing.
That’s why you might find a group of 10-14 year olds standing at the foot of a wooden cross, burning paper and singing together. It would be one of the trauma healing sessions led by Ruth Radley, a CMS mission partner and her team.
Through Ruth’s sensitive leadership
- children draw or write the bad things they have done or seen – with some pictures too heartbreaking to describe
- their work is put at the foot of a cross and burnt
- often holding hands and singing, they ask God to deal with their inner pain
Trauma healing like this is desperately needed in Southern Sudan. Which is why Ruth is training others and has been involved in producing a workbook about to be published.
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Sex workers transformed
You can help transform the lives of young adults too – in a nation where bombs, bullets and even suicide bombers are a way of life. Where radical extremism and tyrannical rulers hold power.
This has had a devastating impact, with people turning to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain. And women selling themselves to fund their addictions.
Three young women - ‘Aspi’, ‘Tungi’ and ‘Mormis’ were ‘sex workers’ there. In the midst of such deprivation and violence these vulnerable girls had little choice but to sell themselves.
Yet today, their lives have been transformed.
Aspi is now a flower maker, Tungi is a seamstress, and Mormis prepares raisins for sale. Their faces are full of smiles; their future brighter than they could ever have dreamed.
This came about through gifts like yours that support a CMS mission partner we can only call ‘William’.
Were you to ask him why he’s chosen to work in such a volatile place, he’d tell you, ‘I have a passion to see God’s kingdom built where war, disease, poverty and spiritual darkness affects so many people’.
A significant part of William’s work has been with a team showing God’s love to people who are HIV positive. And he could also tell you about others including – Tulpi, 17, and Fastim, 15 – not their real names. They have both ended their involvement in commercial sex work and are engaged to be married.
Sythma (not her real name) was a drug addict for twelve years. She had resisted all offers of treatment for her addiction. But William’s team made the breakthrough, and now she has successfully completed treatment.
Because of mission partners like William, God’s kingdom is coming step by step. And this is what your response to this appeal can make possible. Your gift is needed so mission partners like him can keep sharing Jesus and transforming communities especially where war and conflict have done such damage.
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