Ingoni mozi ((hello my friend)!
My heart is full of joy and thankfulness at this moment. Certainly, there is so much I can thank God for on a daily basis, Salvation through Christ Jesus and His Grace being top of the list. Today, however, I have specific answer to prayer which I would like to share with all of you!
Since Aug - Sept of last year, myself and 6 other men have been living and working on Gordon Mountain, the location of our gospel radio station and Operation Nehemiah mission compound. Our great privilege and responsibility: to preach the gospel through the airwaves on a daily basis to South Sudan and Northern Uganda.
The seven of us were also being encouraged as we encouraged others, studying, gathering for regular prayer, and group bible study.
Life on Gordon Mt. required a Spartan lifestyle to a certain extent. It was beans for lunch and supper with a carbohydrate choice of either rice or posho(maize flour boiled bread). Next days menu: Repeat.
The water used for washing, cooking, and bathing came directly
from our next door neighbor, the Nile River. Drinking water was pumped at a
borehole, two to three miles away and transported by motorcycle (two 20 liter
jerry cans at a time) or car when available.
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| Gordon Mt. food staple |
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| Dish Washing |
The limited water made plans for building residences for our families to stay with us very difficult. For a long time, there were seven of us with our nearest neighbors being the baboons.
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| One of our baboon friends, watching the sunrise. |
While all that is
changing now! Since April, a deep well had been dug at the base of Gordon and
now it has been piped up to our compound where our staff are now enjoying
fresh, clean water! This will pave the way for residences to be built and
giving staff families the ability to live together on Gordon Mountain.
Please see William Levi's update below and at the bottom of his update, a few finishing touches needed to finalize this project!
Rubanga kolu nito (God be with
you)!
~Jonathan and
Joyce Lueken
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Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys travelling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from South Sudan? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in South Sudan in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez
Thank you for your message and visiting the blog!
ReplyDeleteOn your blog I noticed that you got a letter from South Sudan and indeed you are very fortunate. Indeed, there is no mail service in South Sudan and in the 4 years I have been there, I never had the ability to send a letter from there. I am glad you were successful! I am currently out of country and wouldn't know how to send a letter if I was there.
South Sudan is a beautiful country that has been ravaged by war and needs the peace of Christ to touch hearts and cause the warring factions to cease fighting amongst themselves and care about their fellow South Sudanese who are suffering.
May God bless you and, if you don't know Him already, I pray that you may truly know The love of Jesus Christ that he showed when He died for you and me on the cross, for the multiple bad things we do on a daily basis. Jesus was the ultimate letter to this world that for the first time gave us a way to have a relationship with God. When we are reconciled in Christ, we have Christians brothers and sisters all over the world who become a part of our family, though sometimes we may never see them face to face on this earth.
Thank you for your comment!