Advanced Studies Class for strategic Missions Sudan Equipping the Return
Kakuma Interdenominational School of Missions GRADUATION Dec. 2007 -
From Kakuma Refugee Camp - “Somber and determined for a New Sudan”
The eminent return into Southern Sudan to develop teams of Evangelism in regional Dialects, Advanced Study and Three Year Diploma Level Student who have studied and made difficult preparation for their individual return to their home regions that came under Islamic genocide , most of them refugee children. Now mainly ages from 20 to 35 are involved in developing missions network for “Pre-literacy education” and evangelism in the complex linguistic diversity of Southern Sudan. This labor pool for evangelism and equipping, speaks fluent English, Classic Arabic, and much of the written and unwritten dialects of their country. They represent the indigenous people groups who have been under siege from the Islamic North as many broken agreement from the advance of Islamic social-architecture, and domination for the Christian and Animistic tribal lands of Southern Sudan.
To date at the end of 2007 Lifestreams has facilitated the preparation of over 800 graduates of specialized Missions Curriculum for hi-tech communications and “pre-Literacy” education. The Translation Loop of traditional missions is a thirty year cycle that has been prevented for fifty years by Islamic oppression from the genocide that the Khartoum government of Northern Sudan has relentlessly labeled as simply a Civil War. The CPA, Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 has a time stipulation of six years, of which two have elapsed. We must network with the Sudanese Refugee Communities that are the ‘First Wave’ to return with the hope that now the rest of the world is watching and will become involved.
Our approach of “hi-tech for tribal people groups”, is the use of Solar Powered limited range radio transition to fixed band receivers, literally making electronic schools to educate without paper, pencils, school books, or buildings. This system of advance can catalyze a true indigenous movements of “win one disciple one” of spirit filled high comprehension Christianity before literacy. Designed to develop from the inside out of indigenous people’s populations, to under gird other development when it can take place. These graduates have received training of social-economic development from a Christian base and will become the first contact as a bridge from tribal devastation to the potential development. Southern Sudan has adopted English as their national Language when Autonomy can be achieved. This “Labor Pool” from Kakuma refugee Camp is the reconstructive answer to an epic struggle.
The western Church World has waited and could horribly neglect the potential to play their role of networking with a part of Indigenous peoples Christianity that has been literally under Islamic Crusade.
There have been two fragile peace agreements both with the same design from the Arabic League to eventually control the hug oil reserves under the tribal south’s lands, and be able to continue their expansionism into East Africa after fifty years of exploitation of the resistive indigenous peoples of Southern Sudan. The time sensitive opportunity to quickly assist the people groups of the South to unify and assist their complex and devastated social groups for inter- tribal unification and development from a Christian base is now.
HOW TO NETWORK WITH A POTENTIAL after fifty years of systematic devastation, that the Southern Sudanese people themselves speak of as the right for self determination.
“Wives and Mothers”, When culture has survived under Genocide
REALITIES OF THE RETURN / Kakuma Interdenominational School of Missions GRADUATION Dec. 2007 -
From Kakuma Refugee Camp - “Hopeful against great odds for a New Sudan”
The statistic says that 70% of the refuge community is now a family structure of single mothers. The questions that haunts my heart and brain when I look at what is at hand for these very precious and half extinct cultures of the Nilotic people of Southern Sudan, is how do you reinvent a new society out of the devastation of fifty years.
We have trained men that were child soldiers from the age of 8, 9, 10, or 11 for the past six years or so, thinking that by Gods intervention they are going home Soldiers of peace, and not relentless, hopeless defense, and in the end annihilation. The last year or two have been spent serving young people who don’t really know the old world of the Sudan and have been raised in the refugee camp at the risk of entitlements and standing in line for what is needed … or a bit less.
This shot was taken by the keen insight of another woman [Yulia Bowman] at the graduation celebration 2007, in Kakuma Camp. Our subject has such a lovely smile of rejoicing for the moment, and the feminine strength of a seasoned veteran of war and “mans inhumanity to man” in the background sharing the hope for “redetermination” of their culture and a home land. It’s a great picture with maybe a husband far back in the upper left hand corner with his Grad gown on. The UNHCR [UN High Commission of Refugees] has been surprised that most of the persons who have entered into the “all voluntary repatriation” process are over 80% young male without their wives or children. I am thinking, that “they have been through this movie before”, and know the treachery and dealings of a religious system that god rewards them for lying to the enemy and seducing their weakness. It’s been a hard road since the mid 80’s as indigenous peoples being bombarded with oil dollars dropping soviet munitions on the life that they once know of self sustainment. There is again hope, but tempered caution mixed in this photo.
This camp of usually some 100,000 at a time has been the holding tank for Sudanese since the Islamic government of Khartoum had been moving to finally annihilate the last male population under the age of 12 to achieve their Islamic social-architecture in the rich lands of the tribal South.
The realities of the return for the majority of family units, with a “single woman head of household”, whose brothers, fathers, uncles and husbands are not part the return. The return back home to reconstruct their homeland is problematic at best for them.
I wonder if the western church has been growing up through the missions org era, then the short term missions era that were not to much more that tax write off’s for a vacation to experience real co-dependence at its absolute finest. We hoped it was developing good will, but to deal with the learning curve to network with some of today’s complex problems for the remaining indigenous tribes was often missing.
As I look into this young lady’s face, I think it has become time to network effectively with indigenous people who want to do their own work, but need some network to become effective, era. As professionals and having the time to influence our world working with a credible labor pool of trained indigenous laborers is the key to concluding the great commission.
So I am at the limit of how much a website reader is willing to endure, and need to enquire is there mobility in the female sector of the western church not just with time and financial ability. The potential is to make high impact influence with the necessary women’s movement that has to take place in South Sudan. I think it is about connecting the right dots together, in this era for mission.
There has to be network partners coming forward as individual life-streams. They can develop micro-loan banking conduit for women’s small business enterprise on a broader scale, for instance. Writers of curriculum, and agendas that can be conducted inside of tribal areas of the south in dialect by our solar communications systems, specifically to make the realities of the return viable. Before the passive Islamic invasion hits, striving to control by” peace time” efforts we have to act, and act quikly, amongst the Floodplain of the Nile, and through out Southern Sudan, for family redevelopment.
