Mambia Camp Hears the gospel 2nd –10th November  2002
After weeks and weeks of waiting to go back to Sudan the air space was re-opened and soon followed by the lifting of a ban on road travel. At last we were given the green light to go back in, but the conditions were very rough. Because of the security in Northern Uganda the technical team flew up to the Sudan/Uganda border. At the last minute Roger’s interpreter was able to come. As he was not able to get on the plane he took the bus that the technical team would have been on. The bus was ambushed 5 people killed and the rest robbed and abducted. Michael was among the few to escape. The technical team were only able to average 35 miles a day in Sudan sometimes driving in water up to the side mirrors of the Toyota Land Cruisers. With God’s favour our team made it to Tambura and found the truck and all the equipment exactly as we had left it. The new spare parts were fitted and they were soon on the way to Mambia camp.

On arrival we learned that no food aid had been delivered to the camp for over two months. People were desperate for food and any help offered. Many had left to other towns in search of food. Various Kenyan churches had collected clothing and shoes and we were able to help some of the most needy cases. The next day food aid from the UN began arriving and was soon distributed. Mambia now had natural food, we would now preach providing the spiritual food, but not without opposition. A small group of Catholic youth opposed the meetings as much as they could, marching the streets waving branches telling people not to go to the crusade. I am not sure it helped at all because people came with wide-open hearts and accepted Jesus gladly. Right before their eyes, the blind, deaf, crippled people were healed. Jesus is stronger than any opposition. The 3 chief witchdoctors were all in the meetings, all three of them were gloriously saved.

Since our last visit to Tambura a small Dinka Anglican church started in Mambia with just 12 members. After the crusade on the second Sunday the 12 grew to 112. The leaders were beside themselves with joy. Sudan Pentecostal Church also started a new work on the second Sunday with about 60 members attending the first service. The Gospel message rang out loud and clear across the camp. All those that were in the camp heard and gladly responded and were saved.

The Gospel gives the people hope, dignity and power to change their awful situations. False religions only offer people an aspirin on a sinking ship. Sickness is turned into health, depression and despair to joy and dancing, fear and darkness into faith and light. Jesus Christ is HOPE for the hopeless.

Thank you for helping us to take ‘Jesus Christ the hope of Glory’ to such needy people, to a people who had never heard the Gospel.

We gave each new convert follow-up material and clearly introduced the two new churches in Mambia camp. Several people walked from Tambura telling us how they were continuing on in Jesus after the Tambura meetings. You may remember James Wiel the witchdoctor that was saved in Yei, he is now working with an evangelistic team as a spanner boy serving God with all his heart. Aid workers from the UN came to share with us how they had been saved in Yei crusade earlier in the year.

January – March 2003 will kick off with three meetings in Sudan. Then we are geared up and ready to go to the Congo. Preparation is already underway in the Congo with dozens of churches ready to help us pull in the net of fish. In anticipation for the huge crowds we have ordered and paid in part for a new sound system to cope with the demand. I have come to understand something I once heard Reinhard Bonnke say. “When God really begins to bless a work, that is when it really becomes expensive.” It may seem expensive for us but what can match the price Jesus paid. Shireen and I are willing to give our all – the Gospel must be preached and people must be saved. Thank you our dear friends for your practical help and prayers. Together we are leaving an indelible mark on thousands and thousands of hearts.

Together we are populating heaven and plundering hell.

All our love,

Roger and Shireen West.

 
  
 
 
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