Today we had Peter Hammond from 'Frontline Missions' come to speak to us. This is a mission agency he began that goes into warzones to evangelise to the soldiers and brings relief aid in. He was there in Monzabique during the communist reign, in Rwanda during the genocide, Angola during the war and now has been working among the persecuted Christians of Sudan for the last 15 years. There are a Christian tribe, the Nubians, who have been living in the mountains and holding out against the Arabs and Muslims for 14 centuries. Sudanese Christians are quite regularly bombed, landmined (most churchgoers on crutches) and killed by the majority muslims as well as starved of medicine, food and the bible by the UN occasionally.
Interestingly, because of the war on Iraq, Sudan has declared peace because it's afraid that it will be next targets by the US.
Anyway, a great answer to prayer is that his agency also happens to have a lot of resources in the native languages of Botswana and Zimbabwe like the Jesus film and discipleship books e.t.c so we go on Monday to pick them up and have lunch with his organisation.
While listening to him speak, I realised that I will probably work with unreached people groups and the persecuted church. There's so many people wanting to hear the gospel, they just need Christians willing to risk themselves to take it to them.
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