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Urgent Needs - Sudan - Salt and Bibles
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February - March 2010
Here’s an urgent need you can pray about and maybe help with …
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We have been examining a new group of preachers in the south and southwest of Sudan in the Darfur region for the purpose of supporting them. They will no doubt be approved but we do not yet have their applications. However they have asked for our help with a project that I will share with you. (This is a zone that for decades has been targeted by the Muslim led government in northern Sudan. In the 80,s and 90’s it was estimated that as many as 50,000 “Christian” children were taken from their parents and sold as slaves to Muslim families in the north and throughout the Middle East. In the past decade there have been attempts of genocide against the Christian tribal groups and many have migrated to the refugee camps in Darfur. Hundreds of thousands have starved to death.
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The project they have asked for is to provide them with Bibles and salt. There is a great deficiency of salt in their meager diet. Saaid (pronounced sigh-id), the leading pastor, has asked that we provide funds for them to buy 60-kilogram bags of salt. They will be distributed to families giving each about 1 pound (roughly a half kilo) for a months use. Incredibly, a 60 kilo bag costs only about $4 (including distribution costs). A Bible can also be purchased for about the same amount (including distribution costs).
Because the brain is very sensitive to sodium, when sodium levels are low it can cause symptoms including disorientation, headaches, nausea, lethargy, and muscle twitching and cramps which can progress to seizures. If sodium levels are not raised, it can lead to coma and death.
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Such conditions can be greatly frustrated by sweltering days and freezing nights, not to mention the gnawing fear of starvation, disease and murderous assaults.
Saaid and his preachers are asking us to provide them with these supplies so they can give them freely to the tribal families as they evangelize and plant churches. If you wish to help, please mark your donation “Sudan Salt and Bibles”. And we will let you know when these men become available for sponsorship in case you are interested in supporting one.
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If you wish to donate to Sudan - Salt and Bibles, please click here to be taken to our donation page.
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