SOUTH SUDAN Story by Jenny Davies
DYNAMITE IN THE HEART REACHING THE 99 In their efforts to take the Word to the world, GlobeWorks International Ministries partners with Christian ministries of like belief and like practice at home and abroad. Recently, MAF was able to help them on their way to a hard-to-reach region in South Sudan to support a Bible college, a hospital and 26 bush schools while distributing God’s Word.
As GlobeWorks Director Ben Cohen describes their ambitious outreach itinerary, every activity seems to blend into the next. It’s not at all clear how much sleep was involved in their whirlwind week. It sounds like door-to-door evangelism, if you turned it into a competitive sport, crossed with a student campus crusade. The mountainous location Ben and his colleague AJ are reaching seems to attract these “all or nothing” characters who carry a Bible in their hand and a fire for God in their heart.
with an incredulous laugh. With an estimated 42 languages spoken in the area, the reality probably isn’t too far from the truth. The languages and people groups haven’t grown separately just because of the area’s isolation. Some people arrived here after fleeing conflict elsewhere. Today, they are a melting pot of cultures united by their geographical isolation, poverty and shared experience of war. As they begin their outreach, Ben sees only the transformation possible through the Gospel. The opportunity to hear and read God’s Word is one he wants to give to each one of the excited children who run to greet them and their truck full of Bibles. As he says, “The Gospel of Jesus
REACHING THE 99 “They say there are 99 tribes in these mountains, and one tribe lives in each mountain,” Ben shares 4
