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to Jesus, passing through Catholic and Protestant groups, but not learning much detail about the Bible. He prayed to God for guidance, to send someone to teach him the Truth, and then came upon our free Bible offer online. It was a wonderful climax to his amazing journey so far to be baptized. He is married and has built a large shelter under which he teaches up to several hundred people the new knowledge he has found online from us. He is eager to teach them the Truth. In his area, there are new arrivals of Moslems fleeing the war in the border areas and the famine. They arrive barefoot and with nothing.

Joseph does his best to look after them and to introduce them to Christianity. Our brother is desperate for Bibles and Bible

Basics in Arabic to teach them - and for

brethren to visit him and teach and probably baptize others. We?re quite low on funds at this time - please consider donating towards at least the printing work. We can try to send the literature by DHL to Juba and then it can be transported on barges to his place. Joseph is a lovely man, generous, courteous,

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cultured and a true lover of God and His Son and their word.

Please pray for this amazing opening ! And please, consider getting involved. This is true missionary work - taking God?s Word and the saving grace of His Son to those who have not heard.

After that we journeyed to Malakal, a garrison town on the troubled border with the North. Most people there are in the security forces. It?s cut off by Darfur to the West, Northern Sudan to the North, and rebel militias on the other sides. The reason for coming here was our outstanding brother Amos, a third generation Kenyan Christadelphian who has been working there for some time with a construction company. His work involves him traveling around a lot, and in doing so he has managed to teach many people about the true Gospel. These are all kinds of people, ranging from young men from cattle herding tribes who have grown up with nothing but violence, cattle rustling etc., right through to fellow Kenyan ex-pat contractors and professionals. It was with great joy therefore that we baptized ten brothers and one sister in the River Nile:

The other side of the Nile at this point [visible in the baptismal photos] is in the hands of rebels, apparently there was a major battle there the week before we arrived in which 300 people were killed. The banks of the Nile on the Malakal side are under curfew from 6 p.m. due to the fear of rebels landing in speedboats. So the