NEWS
FRONTLINE FELLOWSHIP 2017 Edition 2
PO BOX 74 NEWLANDS 7725 CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA
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Mission to South Sudan, Sudan and Chad "All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the families of the nations shall worship before You. For the Kingdom is the Lord's and He rules over the nations." Psalm 22:27-28 Our Missionary journey began in Juba, South Sudan and moved North into Sudan and Chad. “Cush will submit herself to God.” Psalm 68:31 In the Bible, the land of Cush (present day Sudan) is referred to 52 times. People of Cush have been submitting themselves to God for centuries. The Sudanese Christians date back to the First Century. For more than 60 years now, they have been a bulwark holding up the southward expansion of Islam in Africa. On the first leg of the mission we moved over 1400lbs of Bibles, solar powered Bibles, Jesus Film kits, ECS courses and other discipleship materials from Juba, to Yida Refugee Camp which is approximately 14 miles from the border
of North Sudan. Yida is home to over 90,000 refugees from 65 tribes. “The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” Psalm 19:7 This June will mark 6 years since the government of Sudan began again terrorizing Christians in the Nuba Mountains. A month before South Sudan achieved its independence in July of 2011, the Muslims began to carry out a new campaign of aerial bombing, rape, mass murder and scorched earth policies on this island of Christianity in a vast sea of Islam in Southern Kordofan.
Revival or Islamisation
“Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in you? Show us Your unfailing love, O Lord, and grant us Your Salvation.” Psalm 85:6-7 There is no doubt that Muslims around the world are set on making Sudan the cornerstone of the Islamic Caliphate in North Africa. The agenda of president Omar Al Bashir in Sudan is clear. Since he came to power in 1989, he has slaughtered millions of Christians in what is now South Sudan and ethnically cleansed other black African tribes in
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35 YEARS AGO – FRONTLINE’S FIRST MISSION to MOZAMBIQUE To Mozambique by Motorbike
“Go into Mozambique by motorbike!” The idea came as a shock to me during a quiet time one morning. But that is a Communist state! Into my memory came all the things I had read about the Frelimo terrorists and Russian troops who controlled the land. I recalled how I had prayed for the believers there, when I had heard of the severe persecutions, that followed the communist revolution in 1975. Was I, an ex-Rhodesian whose brother had undertaken military raids into Mozambique, being called to go to this land that had harboured terrorists that had killed friends of ours? Was I, as
a missionary, being commanded by God to go to the same Mozambique where all missionaries had been expelled and where the president had declared “an all-out war against churches?” Not only that, I had never ridden a motorbike before! “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.” Jeremiah 1:7-8
Researching the Field
Searching for information on Mozambique, I saw that Operation
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