March 14th marked a fun and significant day for 41 walkers and for the people of Jaac, Sudan. On that day, the walkers gathered at Northern Florida Christian Center in O’Brien, Florida. Members from ten churches gathered to walk around the church square to raise money for a well in Jaac. I had presented a […]
Working in Southern Sudan is not easy. God has blessed PPF with so much success through the years that it’s easy to forget that it doesn’t take much for things to quickly go very, very wrong. We were reminded of this in early April when we received a distressing e-mail from Nashon M., our agent […]
by Ed Lyons “For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.” 1 Corinthians 12:12, 27 By its very name, a divine appointment is when an individual […]
As you read these lines, Sudan is preparing for something it has not seen in nearly a quarter of a century: free, multi-party elections. People who, for decades, were hunted down like animals, tortured, and enslaved, will now have the opportunity to choose leaders representing their interests in the capital of Khartoum. April could be […]
By Brad Phillips As I write these lines, the world is rightly focused on the terrible tragedy in Haiti. Sudden calamities like earthquakes and hurricanes test the ministry “response time” of Christians and people of good will. And I have, like you, been blessed to see so much love and support given in such a […]
by Brad Phillips Every now and again, I like to rummage through some old pictures of PPF ministry activities and remember how good God has been to us through the years. Recently, I ran across several early photos of refugees arriving in Southern Sudan from Darfur. They were on the run, severely discouraged, and starving. […]
It’s amazing the way God works things out in His own way and time. We are able to look back on the sequence of events and see that His hand and His perfect timing were involved even while we could not see it. Christmas this past year was a wonderful example of this for my […]
Chances are you’ve spoken with Teresa Hurlock, if you have ever called the PPF office in Virginia. Teresa is the “voice” of PPF. She is our “first impression” and has served the organization for nearly six years. As the first contact with the donor, she works with the realization that all PPF employees are […]
By Matt Chancey In a recent Africa Messenger, we included a picture of some of the students from Providence Christian School in Dothan, Alabama. The students at Providence have been wonderful partners in our clean water projects. My mother is a Latin teacher at Providence and recently invited me to give the students an update […]
During PPF’s Christmas outreaches, a team traveled south of Southern Darfur to the river town of Nyamlel, to visit an orphanage supported by PPF ministry partner African Leadership. While in Nyamlel, our vehicle suffered a puncture in one of the tires (a normal occurrence). After putting on a spare, which looked like it was about to join its predecessor, the driver recommended we drive to his office in Aweil to pick up a better spare. This would take us two hours out of our way, but we didn’t want to risk sleeping with hyenas in the desolate bush between us and our base camp in Jaac.
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