Share the Word!

Sounds good...my family and I actually are Brookhills members. This church in Sylacauga is my in-laws. The pastor at Mignon read radical and changed his life...he met with David and other Brookhills church leaders to learn how to guide his church effectively through Radical book. Their church will have just finished Ch. 5 when Bullen come to speak. There will probably be between 200-300 in their congregation and the service will be televised and broadcasted over Talledega County. You are more than welcome to come along and spend the day with us...thought we could bring the guys back to my wife's parents for lunch and have the pastor's family over at the same time and visit. You are more than welcome to join or if you need to get back, we can take them home. Will touch base when gets closer. Ken

Thanks Haven and Home

Thank you Marianne for your love and support.  I am overjoyed to be listed on your wonderful blog.            Haven and Home: Quiet Time

Imparting Hope.

I always wanted to do some thing for my people. Thank you Lord for giving me this vision of helping my people. If you want to know more about what I am doing go to www.wix.com/impartinghope/4one.
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Voted!!!!!!

I have never dreamed that one day i will be going to vote for the future of my country. But God is so good in all his ways and have given us the time to decide for the future of our own country. As i am standing in line to vote i stared looking back in all that happen to me and my family during the times of war in Sudan. I find out the the tears are coming out of my eyes. All of my five brother died in this war and father as well. But thanks to God that i have voted for the future generations that are coming and they will not walk through the path that we have walked. Therefore,hope is not in the beginning but is in the end. Keeping your dreams and hope alive is great thing to do because one day it will come true.

New Year is here.

So much to thank God about. When i see all the things he had done for me in this past year. I pray in this year he will use me to impact nations for his glory. Also about my school i am so thankful to God that he has been so great to me and have provided for me to go to school and i do trust him that he will always gloryfy himself in my education. Nothing impossiable to God. Therefore let us fix our eye on Him not on man.

Jan. 9

Sudan is heading to make a great history. This is going to be great for us as South Sudanese. I was able to go and register at referendum center so that i will be able to vote in upcoming referendum. This vote is going made history and will open doors for the people of South Sudan for the rest of their life. I want give praises to God who have made this to happen in Our Country. And He always keeps his promises. I have lost all of my brothers and my father as well in this constant war between Muslim and Christian and final it is our turn to be free so that we will glorify God. Can not wait for the voting day!!!!!!!!!

Dresses for Sudan!

Thank you so much Carol Brown and the Branches small group for working on these dresses for my village in Sudan. This will be a very good blessing for the children.

Ms Carol wants me to speak in the small group at BH and I am so excited!

I talked to Bill (my husband) and we would like for you and Boudan (sp?) to come speak to our class on Oct. 10th. If you could be there no later than 10:55 in modular 17. We told the class about it this morning and they are so excited about meeting you all.

Please let me know if this if O.K. I'll have all the dresses there that day, but we will take them by your house that afternoon. I want the class to see how many dresses were made by these women.

Now, the second group that is going November first week...Are they going to the same village? Just wondering about having any made by that trip.

If you think dresses have a way to get to Sudan throughout the year, we will continue to sew even after this group goes. Carol

OPEN

God has open the Red Sea

Greeting!

Greetings from Bullen Timo, Sudanese, in the Threesixty house. May Your ways be known among the nations Oh Lord and let Your glory shine forever and ever. You alone are highly exalted and glorified. Magnify Yourself to the nations through Your church whom You purchased by Your blood. God, You alone are the Creator of All and You alone are Lord of all.

Threesixty Ministry is glorifying God by making disciples of young men and transforming their lives so they will go into the nations and reproduce more disciples throughout the globe for the glory of God. By the grace of God, I was selected to be one of the students in this ministry. Since August 2009, I have been impacted in so many ways. I have learned and lived out the American family life, college education life, keeping finance track and my spiritual walk with the Lord. This journey with my Savior, life skills and school will have a great effect on generations throughout my homeland of Mundri, Sudan and the rest of the world.

Family life in Sudan was much different because I did not grow up with a father, mother, brothers and sisters. Instead, I was raised deep in the jungle by my Grandfather, to whom I am so thankful. Sudanese man did not cook and men and women eat separately. However, Threesixty has allowed me to witness a Mom and Dad family together and this has been a great change and experience for me. I have learned how to prepare meals for the family, which makes me aware of how much time and effort a woman spends to prepare a meal and take care of a house.

Education is very important in Sudan and America. An education is what God called me to do in America and He will help me complete my knowledge and wisdom with a college degree. In Sudan, going to school and getting an education is very limited. I learned my math under a tree in the dirt. Since God allowed me to join this program, my classes have been my biggest responsibility. My English language skills are improving every day and I have gained thousands of words during this time. I believe with all my heart God is going to use my education in business to impart hope to the nations of the world.

My spiritual walk with the Lord has been going good. During this past year, I have experienced having a mentor. He encourages me in my hard times, prays with me and we study the Word of God together. In our Christian journey we need someone to walk with us in the daily life and I am so thankful for what Threesixty has done in my life. I have experienced things that I have never dreamed of in my life; God has blessed my life through men and woman who stand by my side to help me in this expedition.

It is my prayers request that everything I do on a daily basis will reflect the glory of Christ to the people around me, so that many people will be drawn to God. I have a heart for people who have lost their families and those going through tough time in life, especially young people, widows and orphans . It is my hope that God will use my life to bring people who are hearting and hungry across the globe to experience His everlasting love. Thank you Threesixty for impacting my life with an education, life skills and guiding my spiritual walk, so that I may be His hands and feet to the rest of the world.

BEACH Site

My First look at the beach with white sand and crashing waves. Kayla Bell is with me here.

This FOOT

This foot was given to me by God. It has carried me in the jungle and many roads. It has so many scars and it is so little. Thank you Jesus for my feet.

Leaves for Dinner!

Make Way Partners has been working in Sudan for a long time. MWP is working with a tribe called the Dinka's. My tribe (Moru) and Dinka's don't get along very well in the jungle, but we all suffer the same things and we Worship the same GOD! Here is a story that was so true of life in the jungle. The leaves come from a certain tree and are very bitter and I have eaten them when my belly was so hungry. I want God to use me to change starving children and widows for His GLORY in Mundri, Sudan, Africa!

You can read more here on page 3: THE LEAVES

Sudan’s Grocery Bag

Inside the safety of our fence, orphans greet us with huge smiles and great hugs. We see them dance and play throughout the day. We hear them drumming and singing praise songs late into the night. We smell their food as it is cooked on open fires three times a day. From “within the fence,” it is difficult to imagine the harsh reality for orphans “outside the fence.”

The first prayer walk with this team brought reality pretty close to home.

As we walked, I noticed a torn, dirty plastic bag on the ground. I asked the team if they knew what it was. In many ways it was an unfair question because to eyes in bodies that are accustomed to full bellies, it looked like a torn, dirty plastic bag of rubbish. But, from what spilled out of it and from having seen it so many times before, I knew exactly what it was.

I said, “It’s someone’s grocery bag.”

The scenario probably went something like this: a woman, more than likely a widow, with a number of children went out to the bush hoping to find some food. She would have had a jar or can in one or both of her hands, hoping against hope that even in this record-breaking drought she could find a well that still had sufficient water in it that she would be able to draw up enough of its reserve to boil whatever food she found. She would also have a baby strapped on her back by a sheet and a large cloth balanced on top of her head to bind up and carry home whatever food she hoped to find.

Like most of the widows and orphans in Sudan, her only food-find for the day was---once again---leaves. So, she gathered what she could stuff in her small, plastic bag which had obviously been used this way many times before. The only food her grocery store stocked today was a sack of leaves. They would provide no nutrition for her young children, but she would boil them in water hoping to comfort her babies by bloating their bellies with leaves. At least they would feel full.

She would deal with the dysentery the leaves caused tomorrow; today she would focus on the only comfort she could provide – a sack of leaves.

She then took the dirty cloth from atop her head and placed the torn bag---now stuffed full of the fruit of her day’s labor---inside it. Next she tied the four corners of the cloth together and balanced it once again atop her head.

Imagine the several-mile walk back home after her long day of searching the wild countryside for food and water. Imagine her worry. Imagine her emotionally “checking out,” not paying attention to all the details so that she might not hurt so deeply for her children. Imagine her bending over to take her hungry, crying baby off her back to nurse him with what little milk her malnourished breast would offer.

Now, imagine with all the distraction, perhaps the knot she made with the four corners of her cloth was not tight enough, or perhaps a hole wore through it as the sticks and thorny leaves braised it as it bounced along her walk through the bristly bush. All we know for sure is that somehow, her only yield of the day, her only food offering for her children wriggled its way from her sack and fell to the ground.

By Kimberly Smith...MWP.

David Platt... Jesus is...

Sweet Tea!

Sweet Tea is a southern drink that is so goooooood. We are learning to make sweet tea in Alabama and have it at every day.

Surely his marcy will be with me

Who suffers the most?

God has a great plan for man to be the head of families and he has established the first family in the garden of Eden. It is will of God to see the families are glorifying him together. But for the widows they have lost their husbands sometimes they have the kids left behind with them. They are always in shadow of sadness, they have little hope and they are the people who suffer the most. Therefore, we do not need to turn our backs for widows. James 1:27

Psalm 27

David asked about God in the Verse 4 of the 27 chapter. He knows that God is sovereign in all that is happening in his life. Also, he knows that he is fighting not for victory but he is fighting from victory. So throughout the Chapter the name of God appeared in the beginning and it the end so this has given me a great challenge some time when something happen i need to call on God but instead forget to call on him. David know that God will do all things for him whether in good times or in bad times. Romans 8: 35-39 if God for us who can be against us. It is my prayers that we call on him in every thing that we are doing through because his word is true.

Truck

I am thinking and looking very carefully what will be the effective to help people back home in Mundri Sudan in terms of Business. Micro finance will be very good to help our people so that they can help them self. There are so many widows and orphans because of the war and i want help them but the question is what will be the successful tool to help the with. So i think it will be good for me to buy trucks which will do the business around the town them that business will generate the income to provide the money for the micro finance to help the Orphans and the widows to do small business to help them. So this what i am praying for and if all goes well 2011 i will start this business in Mundri Sudan.

Pray for Southern Sudan

South Sudan votes for first time in a generation

By JASON STRAZIUSO (AP)

JUBA, Sudan — The election posters and slogan-filled T-shirts blanketing this town underscore a new excitement in southern Sudan, which will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades, when a three-day vote begins Sunday.

Despite the first-in-a-generation election, though, most people are already looking past the weekend ballot to a vote in January considered far more significant: a referendum on independence that could signal the birth of a new African nation, if final negotiations with Khartoum over oil rights and the location of the border are worked out peacefully.

"Southerners are going to vote for independence. We cannot say if they (Khartoum) will accept it," said Peter Yien, a 28-year-old who lives in Akobo, a southeastern town on the border with Ethiopia that is suffering a severe food shortage because of tribal conflict and a lack of rain.

In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters Friday that the United States believes the elections are an important step in peace efforts and wants them conducted so they "reflect the will of the Sudanese people."

He said, however, that the U.S. won't hesitate to speak out if the elections appear to be unfair. President Barack Obama's special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, has been meeting with officials in southern Sudan and in Khartoum, Crowley said.

The roots of a young democracy have taken place this election cycle, at least in the south's capital of Juba, which has seen candidate rallies, voter education drives and political speeches for the first time in years. Daniel Deng, the founder of the Deng Foundation, a voter education group, held a rally this week in Juba to raise voter awareness.

"I will be voting for the first time, and I don't think my mom or dad has ever voted in their lives. We have lived in this country like aliens, forgotten. Now we have a chance to be part of something," Deng said, before quickly adding that the independence vote next year was more important: "Let's get it out of the way and then move forward to the referendum."

Salva Kiir Mayardit, the south's president and Sudan's first vice president, held a final rally in Juba under a still-fiery evening sun Thursday to muted cheers from about 1,000 people. Earlier in the day he said the south was running the "final lap of our journey toward the referendum."

"My key message throughout the campaigns has been the maintenance of peace and stability throughout the country," Mayardit told a news conference. "Since the signing of the CPA (Comprehensive Peace Agreement) the lives of our people have changed tremendously from worse to better, and no amount of intimidation can drag us back to war."

The CPA, a U.S.-backed peace treaty, ended the north-south war in 2005, setting in motion both the elections and the referendum. The last time the south voted in national elections was 1986. The balloting is to elect a president, national parliament and provincial parliaments and governors.

The south's dominant party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, or SPLM, is not running a candidate against Sudan President Omar al-Bashir. Some candidates in the SPLM's northern wing are boycotting the election, but candidates in the south are proceeding. Most here agree that the south is only trying to successfully get through the election and move on to the referendum.

"The language I tend to use in this regard is that elections are the end game in the north and the referendum is the end game in the south," said Zach Vertin, an analyst with the International Crisis Group.

"That's not to say there isn't any interest in the election. It's also important within the south. You can see the beginning of democracy here. Southerners and a lot of the parties deserve credit for engaging in the democratic process."

The oil-rich south is a mainly Christian and animist region. The predominantly Muslim north has ruled for decades, and 50 years of civil war between north and south killed 2 million people. The separate conflict in Darfur erupted in 2003, when ethnic African tribes rose up complaining of discrimination by the Arab-led government in Khartoum.

A U.N. report on the outlook for 2010 said that a worst-case scenario for the country would see north-south clashes ignite along the border, triggering inter-tribal conflict. The U.N. report also predicts severe food shortages this year that could affect the referendum. More than 4 million people in southern Sudan will need food aid this year.

The newly born democratic process in Juba has included candidate forums, which attracted a couple hundred people earlier this week. The president has been flying around southern Sudan advertising his platform, which includes giving more rights and educational opportunities to women. Candidate posters are plastered over telephone poles and store fronts.

But the election in the whole of Sudan is beset with problems. Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., said this week that signs on the ground were "very disturbing," and said that much was awry with the electoral process. Her comments came after former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi's Umma party announced it will boycott the election. Several of Sudan's biggest opposition parties have withdrawn from the race.

A report from the International Crisis Group last month said Sudan's election would suffer from electoral fraud, including ballot stuffing and voter registration gerrymandering. The report also predicted return to conflict between the north and the south if the vote on independence is not held next year.

Friends standing alongside Yien in the eastern town of Akobo agreed that was possible.

"War? No, not war. We will talk," said Peter Toi, 28.

"We will see," Nyak Pan Deng, 33, quickly interjected. "No one can say war or no war now."

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Dream Home

I hope God will provide me a home like this to use for His Glory!