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New Training Grounds in Sudan
 Robert
George Nathana and Justin Wilson Diwiri are from Mundri,
South of Sudan and from the tribe of Moru. Robert is married
to Cecilia with 3 children and Justin to Halima with 2 children.
Robert and Justin got saved in the year
2000 and almost immediately engaged their time in evangelism.
In search of education, they left Sudan for Uganda. Once
in Uganda, they faced many difficulties that made them go
back to Sudan hoping to be luckier. But what emerged was
more frustrations that saw them back to Uganda. It was on
their return that they came across a Discipleship Training
School- Uganda brochure.
They took the brochure and agreed that
the courses offered were appealing and thus decided to enroll
instead of going home with nothing to show of their educational
pursuit. They were admitted only to soon discover that there
were  challenges
involved. For instance, they knew not how to pray for in
their previous churches in Sudan they prayed from a book
and the pastor would pray in conclusion, “our classmates
would pray for a long time while our prayers ended in less
than three minutes,” Justin remembers. But several
prayer sessions and classes later, they found themselves
growing more spiritually than those people who had experience
in prayer and in the word of God. After three months in
DTS, they discovered that their lives had changed and they
acquired a vision of going back home to teach their own
people.
They eventually went back to Sudan where
they could clearly tell the differences between the churches
from those in Uganda. The churches in Sudan were still traditional
with no allowance of exercising spiritual growth. They were
determined to make a change. They therefore decided to begin
a center but before which they started evangelism in Mundri.
The evangelism was accompanied by miracles
and also attracted followers. But some churches were not
very impressed by their ministry and they asked them to
go preach to places where no one else was preaching. But
nothing could stop them from evangelizing.
Robert and Justin have established a church in Mundri that
has five branches. Most of these churches congregate under
trees for lack of structures. They have trained the leaders
of these fellowships a little while sending others to Kampala
for DTS training. But seeing the great need for more training,
they want to start a training center in Juba Town in Sudan.
They have thought it better to open a school in Juba, a
place near home, than to keep taking people from Sudan to
Kampala for training, “it will cut down most of the
expenses,” they reason
Their vision is to plant churches all over
Sudan and they are looking forward towards opening a training
center to train young men who are the future of the nation.
If they continue working alone, it may take a longer time
for them to accomplish this great vision. It is with this
realization that Justin and Robert connected with ACMI’s
Director Bishop Henry Mulandi and Sudan’s Elijah Arok
to work together.
They believe they need to take to Sudan
new principle training to stop the churches from living
in traditions. To start the school, they need Christian
books and a building for training. They need permanent land
so that the school can in the future grow bigger.
 Paul
Aguar is one of the Lost Boys. The Lost Boys is name given
to the boys of Sudan who ran away from the country because
of the war that broke out in Bor Area. They left their parents
and relatives and into Ethiopia. During the crisis in Ethiopia,
they ran back to Sudan and then to Lokichogio, Kenya and
into Kakuma where they were registered and given the name
Lost Boys. Some of them left for America, Canada and other
places.
After going through Mission training in
the International School of Missions (ISOM) in Thika Kenya,
Paul has been heavily involved in ministry. He now plans
to establish a mission school in Wernyor, South of Sudan.
He wants to train leaders, and youths who will also train
other people. He believes that the Sudanese have not received
training the word of God, “they need to be taught
to know what they have been baptized in,” he states.
The training is planned to start next month.
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