Flooding in South Sudan

We have an urgent prayer request from Sudan to share with you. This morning we received an email from our director in Kenya telling us about severe flooding in M. county, where Amy lived during her first year in Sudan, all along the river. The picture above shows the same river in Y., Nate's previous base, at the high water mark of 2007. However, Y. is approximately 1000ft. higher than the lowlands that are flooding in M. county. Corn and pumpkin crops that sustain people until the sorghum crop is ready in December have been totally destroyed in many areas. To make matters worse, even people with some money to buy grain in the market town are going hungry because the food supply from a city on the Nile has been cut off. The SIM team in D. is facing a situation where the local people who work in the clinic and people from the church are not getting enough to eat.

Please pray for relief for those going hungry and wisdom for our teammates as they minister to our Sudanese friends. I believe there are emergency meetings taking place among the NGO's in the state capital and that the UN is trying to provide emergency food relief. Please pray for success in this endeavor. Tomorrow (Wednesday) we're going to join our Nairobi staff in fasting and praying for the hungry in M. county. Maybe you'd like to join us as well? Please keep this situation in your prayers. Thank you!