Bearing each other's burdens

A few months ago we posted about severe flooding in South Sudan that happened in several regions. With that flooding, increased economic crisis, and Covid-19, it was a year of many challenges in South Sudan. We are grateful to report that several partners helped the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SSPEC) and other churches in South Sudan to provide emergency food relief. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, presbytery partners in Pennsylvania, and some individuals in the U.S. and in South Sudan all joined in the effort. We are grateful that we can bear each other's burdens as the body of Christ.

Women with their sacks of grain and beans in Bentiu

Women in Abyei ready to distribute food

Several UN agencies released a report recently predicting that food insecurity in South Sudan will reach emergency and crisis levels in 2021 in several regions. Please pray for God's protection and provision for everyone. In good news, several rural SSPEC congregations started cooperative farms in 2019 and 2020, and some of those fields withstood the floods and provided food when other fields were destroyed. We are grateful for the initiative of these members and hopeful that these fields will help feed the hungry again this year. 

A field of peanuts in Malual

The congregation in Kodok also has a farm project -

here they are in a greeting line after worship

Thank you again for your prayers and support for people in South Sudan. We know that there is tremendous suffering around our world right now and pray that we as people of God can continue to bear one another's burdens. If you are interested in giving towards future food relief in South Sudan, you can do so through the account of the South Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church here. Please designate in the comments that it is for 'food relief'.

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. - Galatians 6:2