Independence from Sudan: July 9, 2011

Periods of official war: 2013-2022, 1982-2005,  1955-1972

The nation of South Sudan has experienced violent conflict continuously from 1955 to present.  Prior to civil war there was British rule,  Islamic slave trade, and oppression. At prayer events, our South Sudanese family cries out, “Our grandfathers were born and died in war, our fathers were born and died in war, and we were born in war. Let our children not die in war.”

This young nation has suffered the longest conflict in African history. Since only December 2013, it is estimated that over 50,000 people have been killed and four million have been displaced. Over sixty years of civil war has created a generation who do not know life apart from war and poverty. Because the nation is ranked as one of the world’s most dangerous places for aid workers to live, many relief and development efforts are thwarted. However, the people are desperate for the Gospel and desperate for development.

In the face of the world’s worst food crisis, inflation, and daily fear of death, the South Sudanese people have asked again and again: “Will you please bring us Bibles?” and “We hear you bring discipleship and trauma counseling. We need your trauma counseling.” Favor is working with government and spiritual leaders to support the process of reconciliation and restoration through the powerful tool of Trauma Counseling, teaching on forgiveness, introducing people to the Great Forgiver, and seeing hearts transformed by the Gospel.

We are also actively involved in the Sudanese displacement camps in the north of Uganda, bringing Gospel teaching and discipleship. There is a multiplication and acceleration of what God is doing in this nation - people are hungry and His Word is powerful!