February 11, 2009

Each Wednesday, they have chapel here at the seminary, which is a common practice in Lutheran colleges and seminaries. Like on Sunday, the worship was very traditional, with the Lord's Supper. The difference today was that the sermon was 40 minutes long! Good thing there was a fierce thunderstorm last night that dumped a lot of rain and cooled things down for this morning!

I received an email from Roxanne that said that our sister in law Suzanne is out of ICU. That is an answer to prayer! Thank you for praying for her with us!

Today I had lunch with Simon Tor, one of the students. He was a day laborer in Khartoum who the Lord called into the ministry. He is married, and has 6 children. He asked that we pray for his church, which has purchased land but they have no money to build a church yet. This is a heavy concern for him. In addition, he also asks that you pray for the health of his family. Everyone is good now, but the health care is so expensive here that everyone fears getting sick. They will not even let you in the door of the hospital until you pay some money the students tell me. Everyone I have talked with has this concern about health.

And interesting thing here is Yambio is that the banks will not exchange US currency if it is dated later that 2006. Apparently they think that it is counterfeit or something. So far I am OK, my bills have been accepted for Sudenese Pounds.

One of the workers at the seminary is Bullen (pronounced "Boo-len"). His little boy was circumcised over the weekend and now they think he may have an infection. He has received some medicine, lets pray that it works for the little boy.