By Brad Phillips November is the month we celebrate Thanksgiving Day. But every day we enjoy on God’s beautiful earth to serve and worship Him is cause for celebrating. The more I live, the more I understand how utterly dependent I am on God for everything in my life. When I look around and see […]
By Bill Andress Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a recent update by long-time PPF friend and co-laborer Bill Andress of Sudan Advocacy Action Forum. His insights are well worth sharing with all Christians concerned about the future of the Church in Sudan. Clearly the focus of most who are engaged in Sudan […]
By Gayle Parlett Gayle with her husband, Don. We laughed until the tears flowed. We danced with joyful abandon. We built deeper relationships, and we learned new skills. And this all happened in a completely unexpected way while serving God. In April, PPF Director of Ministry Advancement, Ed Lyons, spoke at my church, Bay Ridge […]
By Ed Lyons The response has been amazing to say the least. In our September e-newsletter, we asked you to contact us with your praises and prayer concerns. You did. Almost immediately, we started receiving notes of thanksgiving for answered prayer, as well as for the evident move of God in your lives. We received […]
From about May to early December, Southern Sudan has its rainy season. And sometimes when it rains, it just keeps raining. After weeks and weeks of soaking rain, the ground is saturated and the land becomes just one big mud bog. The sticky mud, called black cotton, will suck one’s shoes right off his feet. […]
By Matt Chancey On September 14th, while the attention of America was focused on the “Tea Party” electoral upset in Delaware, the Obama Administration released a policy statement titled, “Intensifying Diplomacy in the Lead up to the Referenda in Sudan.” This document lays out the administration’s plans to encourage a peaceful transition of Sudan into […]
by Ed Lyons Paul, the bondservant of Jesus Christ, did not own a cell phone, and he didn’t have access to e-mail. He wrote epistles. He wrote to encourage the believers, to explain doctrine, and to correct misunderstandings. And he wrote to keep churches informed of his activities. It’s much easier to stay in touch […]
by Eric Reeves Editor’s Note: The following is a selection from a recent article by Eric Reeves, who has chronicled the genocide in Darfur while maintaining a high level of journalistic integrity. You can follow Reeve’s articles at www.sudanreeves.org. Despite its ongoing agony, Darfur is slowly disappearing from international sight. An absence of data, reports, […]
By Brad Phillips, President PPF Dear Friend of the Persecuted, I have something very important to share with you. I feel like I’m living in Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities because right now, it’s “the best of times and the worst of times.” It is the “worst of times” because despite the assurances from several […]
With less than 6 months to go before Southern Sudan votes on whether to secede and form its own Republic, organizations working inside the country say Sudan is not ready. The Sudan Tribune recently reported that 24 humanitarian organizations issued a report that Sudan is “alarmingly unprepared” for the secession referendum in January, 2011. One […]
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