Good News from Sudan

We have wonderful news from Juba. Guet, the wife of James Atem Tuor has been found and her abductor is in jail. In talking with James yesterday, Guet seems to be unharmed and is staying with elders of her clan in Juba. Your prayers and concerns have been most helpful during these trying times. Equally, important have been your generous commitment to help James Atem get to Juba to be with his wife in what has to be a healing for both of them. We are hoping that today we will have sufficient funds committed so that he can leave tomorrow for Nairobi and then on to Juba.

The circumstance with Guet is all to common in Sudan and elsewhere. The marriage customs are out of control with exhorbinent dowries being required now for brides. Consequently, older men are able to marry several wives or guys that are in the US, Canada, and Australia can seemingly afford to raise the funds for the marriage. Consequently, thousands of young men are without means to find a wife. Increasingly, they turn to abduction of attractive young women. Fortunately, Guet was not spirited away to a distant village where she could have disappeared permanently.

Please keep Guet and James Atem in your prayers as well as her abductor.

I (Jerry Drino) am planning to leave on December 5 to fly to Nairobi and then on to Juba for meetings with the President of Southern Sudan and his cabinet as the leaders of a delegation of US based Sudanese NGOs that have been started by other former Lost Boys/Girls who are now doing projects in Education, Health, Water and Agriculture in southern Sudan.

Prayer for the success of this endeavor, as well

Jerry Drino