Students, Faculty and Staff of GIT (Kakuma Refugee Camp)
Rev. Paul Ruot Kor, a former student who has become a friend, currently serves as principal. Rev. Paul has been serving as a pastor for more than forty years and has much to offer students at GIT. As an historian, Rev. Paul suggests that GIT has trained and graduated more Presbyterian pastors in South Sudan than any other institution. It was a great joy for me to visit my friend Paul, to collaborate together with him, to go into the camp each day, to help teach a couple of classes, to share from the book of Job during chapel, to spend time with faculty, staff, and students, to gain a better understanding of life at the school, the joys and the challenges, and to experience life in the camp which included one of the part-time teachers being robbed one morning while I was there.
Rev. Paul Ruot at his desk in his office at GIT;
we had some nice discussions together about faith and culture
Rev. Ruot explains the Godhead as "three in one"
in the local Nuer language
in the local Nuer language
It was also a joy to meet Rev. Paul’s wife and child and eat the wonderful “kop” together which his wife had prepared. It was also nice to have time together whereby I could query my friend concerning my own research interests, namely concerning Nyarial (Eleanor Vandevort, former missionary to Sudan) and her Nuer brother, Rev. Moses Kuac Nyoat, the first Nuer pastor in southern Sudan.
Rev. Ruot with wife and child (to my right in photo)
Faculty member and community member (to my left)
Faculty member and community member (to my left)
I am grateful for Rev. Ruot's invitation for me to come visit him at GIT in Kakuma Refugee Camp!
Sunrise, Kakuma Town (November 1st, 2022)
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What a great experience!
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