the International Refugee Committee is calling the present crisis in Sudan the "biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded" with more displaced people than any other country in the world. 12 million people have had to flee their homes which is about 1 in 4 of the entire population. Watch "No Bullets, One Rose for Each Child" to feel their cry for hope. Close to 5 million of those are children. 24 million people are facing acute hunger. This is a heartache that we must not pass over! Understand the conflict more. Read on to see how you can help.
Pray for Sudan. Click the links to learn and be inspired.
- Prayer Cast Video for Sudan
- Prayer Cast Video for the Sudanese Arab
- Operation World
- Global Connections Specific Prayer Requests
Sudan's more than 44 million people are primarily Muslim. They consist of around 161 people groups. The largest is the Sudanese Arab and then Gaaliin, Bedawi Beja, Guhayna. Learn about the mostly Muslim unreached people groups in Sudan. View the unreached from a map of the country.
Find some of the many Sudanese Arabs living in other countries, perhaps near you. There are approximately 1,790,000 in Egypt, 37,000 in Australia, and many in Canada and the United States.
Pray for them, watch for them, and see if you can make a friend from Sudan.
Share Biblical resources in Acoli, Arabic, Bari, Dinka, Moro, and Sudanese.
The Republic of Sudan is in Northeast Africa and is the third largest country in Africa geographically. Sudan consists of mostly desert plateaus and plains with rivers that flow to the Nile in Egypt. There is still enough forest for some lions, cheetahs and leopards. Recent history has seen horrific human rights abuses and war. South Sudan broke off in 2011. Learn more at Britannica.
What We Can Do
To begin with, you can help someone in Sudan through ADRA.org, this is the Adventist Development and Relief Agency or other organizations that helps people of any background.
You can get even closer to Sudan through finding a refugee that lives nearby. In Chattanooga, TN we meet several families who are refugees from Sudan. I was visiting Wildwood Seventh-day Adventist Church to put on a Reach the World Next Door training. The church members wanted to go find refugees. So in 33 degree freezing weather, out we went!
The local pastor, Tapiwa, led us to an apartment complex. We divided to visit every door. We were friendly, shared a prayer, gave a My Language My Life MLML.org card, and found Sudanese refugees whose hearts are connected to the pain at home in Africa.
Now the Sudanese have Seventh-day Adventist friends who visit them, invite them to their own houses, and tangibly help. I was thrilled that we had just added the Jesus Film for adults and children in Sudanese Arabic to the Arabic page of MLML.org.
Explore the Seventh-day Adventist history of missions in Sudan here: https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=6E00
Please find a way to be one of those glimmers of good news. Give. Go. Pray.