Update from Julia
1/21/2000

Julia called from Nairobi this morning (1-21-2000).

She has just come back to Nairobi from the Upper Nile region of southern Sudan and reports that the people to people peacemaking is promising. The atmosphere in the region is favorable toward the peace process. People are standing together for inter-community reconciliation and against violence.

An example:
Last summer the Murle people abducted several Nuer children. Last week, the Murle voluntarily returned the children. Julia witnessed the reunion of these children with their parents.

Julia asks for prayer, both for herself and for Wal. The work is physically draining--there is so much to do. There is little opportunity for sleep. She will return to southern Sudan in the next day or so, and hopes to return to the US by January 30.

Wal is doing fine. Some of the warloards are opposed to efforts which promote peace and unity of the Christian South. Julia believes that such opposition is short lived, since there is an overwhelming grassroot support for the peace process and community reconciliation.

There is much need here for financial resources.

Isabel Hogue, Treasurer, SSFI
P. O. Box 8582
Bloomington, IN 47407

765-474-1938