Summary of the time in Nuba

Thank you for your constant prayers and encouragement during the time in Nuba Mountains. Some of you have received weekly updates throughout my time there, though not all of you, which is why I’ll just give you a brief summary of Nuba here. The past month in Nuba has been an extraordinary experience for me and it is really hard to be back in Yei now as I left my heart in Nuba. I am hoping and praying very much that God will open up a door for me to go up there and work there permanently. I spent most of my time in Moro, which is one of the least exposed areas to foreigners and there were lots of (older) people that had never seen a white woman before – they know Chris and the SP guys but there are no women working with SP here. They would all come and touch my skin and brush through my hair and I would just sit there and smile – they are amazing people.

One big testimony for me was when we got to Moro for the second time and there were already 2 of my students waiting for me that had waited the whole day!! We were still in the car when somebody radio-called to say that they were there and then the others just turned to me and said: “You have never been here before so how come you already have people waiting for you?” I think for me it was really encouraging because 1. it shows that Goli was strategic in God’s plan for me and my future ministry and 2. because it confirmed that God has given me teaching skills – otherwise my students would not have wanted to see me again J. When I finally got there, we sat down and talked and I told them of what I’d like to do in Moro. They were very supportive and arranged a pastors’ meeting for the following week. 15 local pastors/elders were invited and 25 showed up – it was incredible. We had about 2 hours together in which I introduced myself and then the suggested work in Moro and they really took it on board. I have now left the TEE material with them for translation and will communicate with them through Chris.

But for now I am now back in Yei, but only for a couple of days. I’ll be flying to Maridi to meet with Rev. Patricia Wick on Friday, who is a female Anglican Pastor here (British), who is heading up the TEE programme for Equatoria. I’ll spend about a week with her talking about TEE and then will be back in Yei. I’ll probably spend the whole of August in Rumbek on the Across base as they have the best-structured TEE programme there so far, but also because I want to participate in an Anamed programme on natural medicine, where they teach you how to make soap, and how to use medicinal plants as etc, but its not yet confirmed. I guess I keep myself busy :-).