I See the Suffering to Come

As the people return from the refugee camps to southern Sudan for the census, they will suffer a lot because there will be no water, no shelter and no food as they return.

I’m worried because these people have left the country since 1983 and they went to Ethiopia, then to Kenya now back to Sudan. When I returned there were lots of changes. When they were in the refugee camps, they were settled there with clinics, hospitals, medicine and schools for their children.

If they go back now to Sudan, they will not have any of this. They will not have water, or grinding machines, or medicine or schools. There will be a lot of challenges for them. Most of those who are now helping in southern Sudan gained their education in the refugee camps. Life in the refugee camps was a challenge but people learn many things like technical schools and when they go back those schools will not be there.

They are going now during rainy season and there will be so many mosquitoes. When I went back in 2005, I returned back to the US with malaria and was admitted to the hospital. They will be there without mosquito nets and it will be a lot of challenges for them.

What we should do is pray for them.  God says in Matthew, “Ask and it will be given…, knock and the door will be open.” We will pray and maybe God will open the door for them and God will knock on people’s hearts and they will go and help.

Going back for them will be good for the country for the government to start. They will suffer for awhile but then there will be development for them if they return.  This will be good for them.

Ecclesiastes says there’s a time for crying and for war and a time for peace. This is the time for peace and we need to pray that it will happen.