Monday, January 24, 2011
Message at Brookhills yesterday.
If God is for us nothing can be against us. Nothing can stop us. Nothing can stop God's plan in your life. Acts 5:29 "we must obey God rather than men! We must live by faith rather then sight. I want to be part of God's mission. God Use me. Why don't you use Me. Oh Lord God teach me to follow your ways.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
C/D
Hello Friends, I'll be going to record a gospel CD in my native language of Moru, English, and Arabic by Saturday Jan 29 2011. I will let you know when I have them ready. God bless you.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
More about Andrew
Why did you want to come to school here in the US? I come to school here in the US because I need good education. School materials and books are available. Good teachers and technology. United State is a Peaceful country good for studies.
What do you want to do with your education when you return to Sudan? I want to go back to work in my country, open a Christian schools to teach my people so that they will be able to understand the word of God and be able to take good care of themselves. I pray that God will use me to teach for his glory, because many southern Sudanese people do not go to school due to the persecution by the north. For example, no good school was build in southern Sudan, no running water, electricity, good road. In 1953 my father was sent out from school, because he is a Christian and my elder brother as well when he completed his high school, he was denied in 1985/86 not to go to college. Not only my family, but all southern Sudanese people were denied because of their faith in Jesus Christ. From my family I’m the first person to go to College it’s a miracle. Due to the persecution in Sudan, still today our people die because of no medicine, most of southern Sudanese sleep in Mad Hut house the roof attached grass every two to three years we rebuild it, drink dirty water full of disease, study under the tree or open air, stay without electricity, and drive on dirty road.
Today I thank God so much for choosing me from the jungle of Sudan to come in U. S to study in order to go back to teach my people. I am so thankful and I appreciate all the supports of my fellow brothers and sisters in the United States who have love to assist with school fees and living expenses while here in U .S. May God bless you and use you for his glory. I will conclude that as you educate me here, you educate millions of people in Sudan because when I go back the knowledge I get from the United States, they will get from me it’s so great.
How is your first semester in school? My first semester was heard especial reading because everything is in computer where in Sudan. I knew nothing about computer but still I enjoyed I got A in Math’s, A in Orientation, B in reading and C in History Western Civilization (1) I hope to do better in second semester.
What did you enjoy mostly in USA? I enjoyed teaching; Teachers are friendly to me and helpful. I enjoyed good time with friends or Christians in USA, they have the love for people I fell at home.
What is most challenge for you in USA? The most challenge I got here is that my people are still back in main ways. In the system of education, Health, water, agriculture, living condition is poor. They need help that is why today our people are still dying of malaria, worms or parasites due to poor living condition example, drinking of dirty water from the creeks or rivers which is dirty.
How can people pray for you? knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Pray for my family back home. Pray for the future Christian school I want to build back to South Sudan so that God will sent friends to build .I also need prayers for my studies so that God will continue paying my school fees and living expenses while here in the United State.
Encourage Andrew: zarahmandis@yahoo.com,Cell phone:1205-261-9649
What do you want to do with your education when you return to Sudan? I want to go back to work in my country, open a Christian schools to teach my people so that they will be able to understand the word of God and be able to take good care of themselves. I pray that God will use me to teach for his glory, because many southern Sudanese people do not go to school due to the persecution by the north. For example, no good school was build in southern Sudan, no running water, electricity, good road. In 1953 my father was sent out from school, because he is a Christian and my elder brother as well when he completed his high school, he was denied in 1985/86 not to go to college. Not only my family, but all southern Sudanese people were denied because of their faith in Jesus Christ. From my family I’m the first person to go to College it’s a miracle. Due to the persecution in Sudan, still today our people die because of no medicine, most of southern Sudanese sleep in Mad Hut house the roof attached grass every two to three years we rebuild it, drink dirty water full of disease, study under the tree or open air, stay without electricity, and drive on dirty road.
Today I thank God so much for choosing me from the jungle of Sudan to come in U. S to study in order to go back to teach my people. I am so thankful and I appreciate all the supports of my fellow brothers and sisters in the United States who have love to assist with school fees and living expenses while here in U .S. May God bless you and use you for his glory. I will conclude that as you educate me here, you educate millions of people in Sudan because when I go back the knowledge I get from the United States, they will get from me it’s so great.
How is your first semester in school? My first semester was heard especial reading because everything is in computer where in Sudan. I knew nothing about computer but still I enjoyed I got A in Math’s, A in Orientation, B in reading and C in History Western Civilization (1) I hope to do better in second semester.
What did you enjoy mostly in USA? I enjoyed teaching; Teachers are friendly to me and helpful. I enjoyed good time with friends or Christians in USA, they have the love for people I fell at home.
What is most challenge for you in USA? The most challenge I got here is that my people are still back in main ways. In the system of education, Health, water, agriculture, living condition is poor. They need help that is why today our people are still dying of malaria, worms or parasites due to poor living condition example, drinking of dirty water from the creeks or rivers which is dirty.
How can people pray for you? knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Pray for my family back home. Pray for the future Christian school I want to build back to South Sudan so that God will sent friends to build .I also need prayers for my studies so that God will continue paying my school fees and living expenses while here in the United State.
Encourage Andrew: zarahmandis@yahoo.com,Cell phone:1205-261-9649
First time to vote in mylife.
I was happy to go to Nashville TN, to vote for my freedom. We left from Birmingham Al, at 05:00am and arrived in Nashville's TN, at 09:00am. Mama Lala,and Kennedy went with us. Three of us Bullen Timo, Victor Duang Deng, and I vote for the separation. We found people already online and we joined them. We waited online to go cast our vote from 09:00am till 01:00pm. We enjoyed good time with southern Sudanese brother and sisters.It was great to see everyone was excited to vote for the freedom. We sing southern Sudanese songs as we wait on the line. It was a great experience in my life. It was my first time to vote. Thank you Jesus.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
About Andrew.
My Name: Andrew Mohandis Elisapana
My Age: 25 years
Tell us about your family: We were born 8. 2 boys and 6 girls but I lost 1 sister. Three of my sisters were captured in the war and taken to Juba in 1986. After the peace treaty was signed in 2005, I went to Juba and I found them. I lived with my mother and father, sisters, my uncle's children, and their children - all together 35in number in one home.
What are you studying? History education.
Why did you want to come to school here in the US? I come to school here in the US because I need good education. School materials and books are available. Good teachers and technology. Peaceful country for studies.
How do you plan to use your education when you return to Sudan? I want to back to work in my country, open schools to teach my people because many people do not go to school. I need to help my people. There are no qualified teachers e in my country due to the war.
How was your first week of class? My first week of school started with reading and math test. I am happy because I passed the test. I have learned a lot of new things. We are few in class, not like Africa where one class were over 100 students. And very good chairs. One person per chair. In Africa 4 students for one chair.
How can people pray for you? For knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Pray for my family back home.
Encourage Andrew: zarahmandis@yahoo.com
My Age: 25 years
Tell us about your family: We were born 8. 2 boys and 6 girls but I lost 1 sister. Three of my sisters were captured in the war and taken to Juba in 1986. After the peace treaty was signed in 2005, I went to Juba and I found them. I lived with my mother and father, sisters, my uncle's children, and their children - all together 35in number in one home.
What are you studying? History education.
Why did you want to come to school here in the US? I come to school here in the US because I need good education. School materials and books are available. Good teachers and technology. Peaceful country for studies.
How do you plan to use your education when you return to Sudan? I want to back to work in my country, open schools to teach my people because many people do not go to school. I need to help my people. There are no qualified teachers e in my country due to the war.
How was your first week of class? My first week of school started with reading and math test. I am happy because I passed the test. I have learned a lot of new things. We are few in class, not like Africa where one class were over 100 students. And very good chairs. One person per chair. In Africa 4 students for one chair.
How can people pray for you? For knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Pray for my family back home.
Encourage Andrew: zarahmandis@yahoo.com
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Need prayers and Support.
The referendum is the key advantage of Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement(CPA), which brought to an end over two decades of a bloody civil war fought between the Christian dominated south and the north, which is governed by the Islamic Shari ‘a Law. According to the United Nation (UN), two million people died and four million people were forced to flee their homes to other areas in Sudan and neighboring countries.
On January 9, 2011, six days from now, we southern Sudanese will vote to decide the separation of the North and South. I covet your prayers that the separation will pass so that our Christian brothers and sisters in South Sudan will no longer have to endure persecution. We will be able to worship freely and have access to gain an education. Most observers say that the South will chose to separate from the north and form a new country.
I am making framed pictures with Scripture on them in my native language of Moru and selling them for $10 each. The money I receive will go directly to purchase land for the Global Christian Academy. I will have some examples posted soon, but you can e-mail me with a special verse of yours or a friends and I will personalize it just for you.
I’m also planning to produce a gospel CD in my native language of Moru and English. I will let you know when I have them ready. I pray God will bless you through your purchase as you impact the world for Christ.
On January 9, 2011, six days from now, we southern Sudanese will vote to decide the separation of the North and South. I covet your prayers that the separation will pass so that our Christian brothers and sisters in South Sudan will no longer have to endure persecution. We will be able to worship freely and have access to gain an education. Most observers say that the South will chose to separate from the north and form a new country.
I am making framed pictures with Scripture on them in my native language of Moru and selling them for $10 each. The money I receive will go directly to purchase land for the Global Christian Academy. I will have some examples posted soon, but you can e-mail me with a special verse of yours or a friends and I will personalize it just for you.
I’m also planning to produce a gospel CD in my native language of Moru and English. I will let you know when I have them ready. I pray God will bless you through your purchase as you impact the world for Christ.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
An Enlighting View on the History of South Sudan
I was born in the war and grew up in the war. All my life was spent with gun fire and bombs. As a child, I found my self running in the jungles of Sudan with my family and hiding in order to survive. As I grew up I came to realize that we are fighting for the freedom to worship Christ. Muslim in the North forced their Islamic Shari’a laws in the country of Sudan, which brought much persecution to Christians in the South.
Even though I was born in Sudan, I was not recognized as a Sudanese. I lived in Sudan as a foreigner. I had no freedom as a Christian in my own country. As a Southern we went to school under a tree and wrote in the dirt with a stick. We were not allowed a formal education. Our hospital and clinic is under a tree. Parents have to taste medicine with their tongue because they cannot read. Many children have died because of this illiteracy. For example, my cousin’s daughter died because they give her the wrong medicine because they could not read. Moreover, we have no electricity, no running water. We ride on dirt roads with large holes. We worship God under a tree. Yet in the North they have all these things....WHY? WHY? WHY? ....because we are Christians, and Muslims despise us.
Can Christian brothers and sisters abandon or forget us in Southern Sudan and leave us to die at the hands of persecution? Can Christians around the world turn their backs on us? Can they leave us to die from diseases like malaria? How long are we going to live in poverty and literacy??? Christian brothers and sisters do you really care? When will you come and rescues us? It’s time for you to stand with us and do something for the glory of God.
We desperately need you to come educate us. WE NEED HOPE! We need to build a Christian school so that God’s name will be glorified in South Sudan. As we come out from the war, we still feel war wounds. Some of us were shocked when God sent us out of Sudan to see how the rest of the world lives. It hurts me so much. It made me ask the question again, WHY? WHY? But, all this happened to us so that God’s name will be proclaimed and His power will be revealed.
My desire is to begin a school called, Global Christian High School to change all of this. 85% of Southern Sudanese cannot read or write. I want to give parents the opportunity to send their children to school. People from Kenya, Ethiopia and Ugandan have given limited assistance to us, but I wonder how long they will even be able to do that? I think it is better to teach someone to fish than to fish for him. Therefore, my goal is to change lives through a quality education and to raise up other teachers. I want to educate Southern Sudanese so that they will be able to read God’s Word and work to support their families independently for generations to come.
I am praying that God will send workers to come to Him. I pray that God will touch the hearts of friends to come to Southern Sudan to give our people hope and a future. We are the body of Christ. One of the parts of the body is hurting. The rest of our body hurts too. The same way as Southern Sudanese bears persecution, when you go through terrible things you also feel the same way. I need volunteers to join me in prayer for the Christians in my country.
Another way you can help be the hands and feet of Christ is by joining me to help purchase land for the school. I pray that as you read a small part of my life, you will get a glimpse of the pain but also the hope we can give to my people. We Southern Sudanese Christians need YOU to stand with us in prayer and support.
Even though I was born in Sudan, I was not recognized as a Sudanese. I lived in Sudan as a foreigner. I had no freedom as a Christian in my own country. As a Southern we went to school under a tree and wrote in the dirt with a stick. We were not allowed a formal education. Our hospital and clinic is under a tree. Parents have to taste medicine with their tongue because they cannot read. Many children have died because of this illiteracy. For example, my cousin’s daughter died because they give her the wrong medicine because they could not read. Moreover, we have no electricity, no running water. We ride on dirt roads with large holes. We worship God under a tree. Yet in the North they have all these things....WHY? WHY? WHY? ....because we are Christians, and Muslims despise us.
Can Christian brothers and sisters abandon or forget us in Southern Sudan and leave us to die at the hands of persecution? Can Christians around the world turn their backs on us? Can they leave us to die from diseases like malaria? How long are we going to live in poverty and literacy??? Christian brothers and sisters do you really care? When will you come and rescues us? It’s time for you to stand with us and do something for the glory of God.
We desperately need you to come educate us. WE NEED HOPE! We need to build a Christian school so that God’s name will be glorified in South Sudan. As we come out from the war, we still feel war wounds. Some of us were shocked when God sent us out of Sudan to see how the rest of the world lives. It hurts me so much. It made me ask the question again, WHY? WHY? But, all this happened to us so that God’s name will be proclaimed and His power will be revealed.
My desire is to begin a school called, Global Christian High School to change all of this. 85% of Southern Sudanese cannot read or write. I want to give parents the opportunity to send their children to school. People from Kenya, Ethiopia and Ugandan have given limited assistance to us, but I wonder how long they will even be able to do that? I think it is better to teach someone to fish than to fish for him. Therefore, my goal is to change lives through a quality education and to raise up other teachers. I want to educate Southern Sudanese so that they will be able to read God’s Word and work to support their families independently for generations to come.
I am praying that God will send workers to come to Him. I pray that God will touch the hearts of friends to come to Southern Sudan to give our people hope and a future. We are the body of Christ. One of the parts of the body is hurting. The rest of our body hurts too. The same way as Southern Sudanese bears persecution, when you go through terrible things you also feel the same way. I need volunteers to join me in prayer for the Christians in my country.
Another way you can help be the hands and feet of Christ is by joining me to help purchase land for the school. I pray that as you read a small part of my life, you will get a glimpse of the pain but also the hope we can give to my people. We Southern Sudanese Christians need YOU to stand with us in prayer and support.
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