Sudan (MNN) — Church planters are choosing Sudanese refugee camps as their mission field in the worst displacement crisis in the world. More than 11 million people across Sudan have been displaced from their homes in its brutal civil war.
A report from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project says more than 24,000 Sudanese people have been killed since April 2023. The actual number is likely higher.
Dane with unfoldingWord says, “There are atrocities happening every day in Sudan that are equivalent or worse than the worst atrocities we saw on the October 7 invasion of Israel. So, I won’t get any more graphic than that.”
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But God is at work in refugee camps, which are almost like towns populated by tens or even hundreds of thousands of people.
A ministry partner with unfoldingWord in Sudan operates equipping centers in more than two dozen refugee settlements. There they disciple new believers for compassionate Gospel ministry.
“When they send these trained people out to plant churches [and] to do ministry in these refugee areas, they are trained as evangelists,” Dane says. “They’re trained as pastors. Some of them are trained as Bible translators. They are trained in Bible-centered trauma counseling because these people have been violently traumatized.”
Discover how you can support Sudanese Bible translators alongside unfoldingWord at their website.
Dane asks, “Pray for those translators. Pray for unfoldingWord — and if God so moves your heart, please tap on that ‘give now’ button!”
Header photo courtesy of DFID – UK Department for International Development, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
