I must go with God
to any land. No matter the roughness of the road. I must go,
I must go. You must go . . . We must go. . . .
During Christmas break 2006, not just two or three but twenty-three
students at Nile Theological College in Khartoum gathered in
Christ’s name and traveled to the Nuba Mountains for a
two-week evangelistic trip. They composed a theme song with
the above lyrics. The students preached and witnessed in open-air
preaching services, visited house to house, and brought greatly
needed medicines and prayers of healing to this area around
Kadugli. One student wrote: “Onlookers responded to us
with mixed expressions. We looked atypical along a northern
highway, humming songs as we moved. The northerners looked at
us with suspicion. They must have thought that we were the Sudan
People’s Liberation Army [SPLA], humming and singing war
songs. The southerners and supporters of the SPLA looked at
us with admiration. Both groups were, however, mistaken. We
were not there as a warring army, but an army spreading the
gospel.”
Four students went to a small town southeast of Kadugli called
Atmur. “Though our purpose was to carry the message of
the Lord, we did not know how we would do it. We had heard there
was an evangelist in the town, but we did not know where he
was. We prayed as we walked through the village. One of the
students greeted the first person who walked toward us in the
local language. The villager faced us with a smile and said
that he was the evangelist we were seeking! Praise God!”
The student concluded: “Our experience shows that a
faith journey is not easy. There are a lot of trials and temptations.
Whatever difficulty we encounter, let us praise the Lord and
keep holding tightly to him. We will then reach salvation. Only
then will we laugh at Satan.”
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