Grounds For Ministry In Sudan

Inversion Kicks-Off Mocha Club To Aid African Orphans
By Jonathan Phipps


On March 15th, Inversion hosted an African Connection Night. The purpose of the night was to call the young adults of Inversion to raise funds for orphans in Nymlal, Sudan. The night featured local recording artists Dave Barnes, Adam Cunningham and Inversion’s very own Amy Stroup. Throughout the evening we were told of the desperate needs of nearly 400 orphans in Southern Sudan. Currently, their primary need is the construction of a dormitory, which would keep them from sleeping outside and would provide shelter and protection from the elements and dangerous wildlife.

Through African Leadership’s online vehicle, the Mocha Club, the young men and women of Inversion raised over $600 a month, which will provide a continuous stream of funding for the project. And that is only the beginning… Praise God! Mocha Club is something aimed at Young Adults who want to do something together for Africa. We learned that Inversion’s response was the largest launch of any Mocha Club thus far.

For $7 or the cost of only two mochas a month (something our people can surely afford to give up) so much can be accomplished in this hurting part of the world. Psalm 67:4 says, “Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.” We pray that God will use our meager efforts as part of how the people of Sudan will ultimately find their greatest joy in Him.

“As I stood in Khayalitsha, South Africa, suddenly all those pictures from TV and movies became real. These aren’t people from another planet. These are people like you and I, but in VERY different circumstances. Sadly, these circumstances are nightmarish – AIDS is ripping its way through the heart of this beautiful continent, and until recently, without much of a fight…until now. This is an exciting thing happening that YOU and I are able to be a part of, a movement against AIDS in Africa. With SO little sacrifice, we are able to help provide the necessities that can change the legacy of these people and their families. I don’t have to fix the world, and it’d be dumb to think I could. But I can give whatever I can, however small.”
--Dave Barnes

“For the past 30 years, Sudan has been wracked by civil war between the Muslim northern government and the primarily Christian Sudanese in the south. In recent years, a militia known as the “Janjaweed,” backed by the Sudan government, has been eradicating villages of people in Darfur. People are literally fleeing for their lives and making new homes out of straw or whatever scraps they can find. They scavenge for the basic necessities of life and live in constant danger of being killed or raped.

Will you join with me to provide the basic necessities for the people of Darfur? Your $7 a month can provide life-saving items such as mosquito nets to prevent malaria, tarps that can serve as homes to cover them during the rainy season, food, clean water, and desperately needed medication for illnesses such as waterborne diseases, diarrheal diseases and malaria."
--Amy Stroup