Jesus... gave his charge: "God authorized and commanded me to commission you: go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.... I'll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age."

Missions

SUDAN - War has been going on in South Sudan for fifty years!  More than 2.5 million people have died, and 4.5 million have fled their homes or country.  These words describe their plight: dislocation, disease, famine, suffering, fear, death, growing up knowing only refugee camps as home.  In 1994 refugees began arriving in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and some began attending the Covenant church.  Soon they organized the first Sudanese church in the Covenant.  From there, word spread to other areas so that there are now 8 Sudanese Covenant churches in North America, and in Africa more than 216 churches with 40,000 members.  Covenant World Relief and Covenant World Missions are among those assisting Sudan in many ways.

Sudan website: www.covchurch.org/mission

           (taken from Covenant Missionary Prayer Calendar 2009/10)