ECS Theological Commission

First of all, thank you for prayer for the trip to Juba. It was an amazing time. I was an observer to the ECS (Episcopal church of Sudan) theological commission in Juba (Across partners with ECS in the south) and there were reports from the 5 ECS provincial colleges alongside reports from the TEE (theological education by extension) centres of south, central and northern Sudan, which were very interesting. It was a great time of fellowship with Patricia Wick (she is a British Anglican Minister who has worked in Sudan for the last 9 years) and other Bishops from ECS.

I also spoke to the TEE north coordinator and found out that they have already translated the TEE materials into the Arabic script, which will speed up the process of translating it into Nuba languages… Across didn’t have a record of this because those materials were translated in the 1980s when the war was going on which made communication difficult. The TEE coordinator also confirmed that ECS north has not really branched out into Nuba Mountains yet – they have one small class of 18 students in Kadugli and that’s it for the whole of Nuba. In addition, I got to know the principal of Shukai Bible College in Omdurman last week too and he has already emailed me the contact details for the Bishop of Kadugli (capital of Nuba Mountains), which will be a useful contact. Please keep praying for God to open a way for me to go to Nuba permanently.



After the theological commission finished, I accompanied Patricia to Lui, which is about 4 hours north of Juba – 8 hours from Yei. We met with some more CMS missionaries up there and I had the great privilege of looking at other people’s work and asking lots of questions again.