Monday, August 10, 2009

Rebuilding church.

After some months, we started rebuilding Church at Koto'bi Mundri Sudan. Christians worked hard to rebuild the Church.
This is Cannon Ruben carrying the poles of rebuilding church. He was the leader and archdeacon in the Diocese of Mundri Sudan at that time. He is a spiritual leader and he was one of the soldier who fought for the freedom of southern Sudanese in 1955. When Khartoum government planned to kill them in 1955 at night, one of Southern Sudanese Intelligence knew that Khartoum government had planned to kill southern Sudanese soldiers in Omdurman,(part of Khartoum) and he ran at night and jumped over the fence to tell them that tomorrow at 6:00am you're going to die. What? Ruben and the group of solidiers wrote a letter with the man to the British headquarters with all information. At 5:00am, the British army arrived to rescued them before Arab Muslim arrived at 6:00am. God called Runben from army to serve the Lord. He was one of the strong pastors during the war. He worked hard encouraging Christians to stand strong in their faith. Even though the bombs were dropped on the church, he encouraged Christians to stand with him to rebuild the church.

In 1996 at Koto'bi Mundri Sudan.


The two helicopters gunship attack displace camp at 9:00 am at Koto'bi Mundri Sudan. My father was a associate Pastor at Episcopal Church. Our house was close by the Church compound. It was Saturday morning, I get up earlier in the morning I went to work in the garden. At 9:00am I heard the sound of two helicopters gun ships heading to the displaced camp. I was afraid and I hid myself in the jungle. Just like ten minutes, I heard the gunshots horrible. I'm crying in the jungle. I thought all my family was death. After the two Gunships left, I heard the crying of people from the beginning of the displace camp, up to the end. I started running from jungle back home. On the way, I met our neighbors running and crying. I asked her about my family, but she failed to answer me. I left her and I started running back home. When I arrived at home, I found all our house burned down. The Church and two people from my family is wounded terribly. I can't forget that day of my life. That was D-DAY in Moru land.


Rebuilding the Church, as the above pictures of the destraction of the Church. As the Bible said, we are the church even though the house was destroyed, but still the worship, joy, the power and the glory of God keep us more strong to stand in the middle of perscution in southern Sudan. God brought revival in the middle of perscution.