An Appeal from the Bishop of Yambio, Sudan: Theological Education Partnership Opportunity

From Jerry Drino:

Below is a communication between the Bishop of Yambio in Sudan and Jerry Drino. Yambio has one of the three school of theology that are function in the Province of the Sudan with 5 million or more Episcopalians. WIth only 20% of the clergy having had any basic formal theological education, the survival and support of the BYEET is very crucial for the health and growth of the Church in the Sudan. The Chruch Missionary Society in the UK has supported the school from the beginning but has recently withdrawn their funds because of lack of donations. Jerry met with the principal, the Rev. Jackson Bullen, in 2008 while visiting dioceses in Sudan. Please contact Jerry (408) 259-2111 jdrino@sbcglobal.net if you are interested in gaining more information.
Dear Rev. Jerry

Greetings and best wishes, I am writing this email to you as Bishop of Yambio diocese in support of the email sent to you by Rev. Jackson Bullen the Principle of BYEET. Actually this Theological School in the Diocese of Yambio has been very important for Yambio Diocese and even other sister Dioceses, and for Sudan as a whole, it has been training candidates from both Yambio Diocese and other neighboring Diocese like Ibba Diocese and Ezo Diocese, but having no any partner whom to partner with. Therefore i will be most grateful if you could enter into our partnerships discussions as you Aleda began with Rev. jackson Bullen. We can even start to talk about inviting you or anyone from there to come and visit us in Yambio so that we can find way forward for our partnership, possibly from July, 2009 to September,2009

Thanks, waiting to hear from you

Yours in Him

Bishop Peter Munde Yacoub
Bishop of Yambio