Colorado team shares God's love in Sudan

The Colorado Springs DTS outreach team is with us here in Arua after spending several weeks at our sister base in Yei, Southern Sudan. Here are some pics of their time in Yei.

In the next few days we'll also post pics of their time in Paidha (Uganda) where you can see them baptizing a former muslim who accepted Christ after hearing them preach.


Please keep praying for the team as they share God's love with the people around Arua.


Open air in a Congolese Refugee Camp.

Brienne said, "We spent a few days ministering in the camp and were touched by the people we met there. We split up into two groups and stayed in tents in the middle of the camp. We wanted to live as close to the people as possible.
The refugees were mainly from Congo and were displaced by LRA activity. You can see the white tarps supplied by the UNHCR to each family. There were over 20,000 people in this one camp with more arriving each day."

Brienne playing jump rope with some girls in the refugee camp

William and Britnee play soccer with the kids

"Hatia had been struggling with mental illness for the last year. When we met her she would just sit around in her own world wrapping string around a stick again and again never looking and never smiling. We prayed for her healing for two days and on the third day we were ecstactic to find here helping her mother cook our lunch! Her mother, Mama Mary, basically adopted us and came to our camp site each morning to cook and care for us. She wouldn't let us do anything for ourselves and was a huge blessing. We would not have been able to minister as much as we did if she hadn't blessed us."

This is the son of Pastor Phillip, who was our guide and translator for the time we were in the refugee camp. He is playing with a toy truck that was a gift from supporters in Colorado.

Back at the YWAM base in Yei...





Isaiah is an orphaned boy with AIDS. He was brought to the YWAM clinic on Yei base by his 9 year-old sister two weeks before we arrived in Yei. He and his sister Rose stayed at the base for almost two months while he regained health. They are now living in an orphanage just down the road. Isaiah really became a part of our team and could be found in the arms of one of the boys whenever we were in the compound.



Isaiah and Derek

Isaiah and Nick

Kurt with a crew of boys at the Iris orphanage where Isaiah and Rose are now living.











We praise God for the many lives He is touching through this team!