Wednesday morning August 17:
It is wednesday night here at the Chaplains training base in Nimule. I got here yesterday but will have to wait till Friday to start my teaching. Once a year they have a refresher course where the men come in from the field for a sort of conference. This year they are coming together at graduation where the new class finishes their one year and are sent out to forward areas to encourage the soldiers. Amazingly the Western news has not mentioned anything about the brutal fighting happening in the North. The Muslim north has been attacking town along the new found border. Many men have been killed along with families and children. One area is evacuating 60,000 people. It is an incredible time for Sudan but it is coming at a cost.
I am a little anxious to begin teaching the men but we are awaiting them to all arrive. So far 60 have come for the refresher course and more are expected. With the graduating class of 60 there should be lots of men here on the base. It is incredible what they have done here. "Camp Hodge" sits on three acres and it is already looking to be too small for what the ministry needs. Aside from the daily activity of the chaplains, the Calvary Chapel services are filled to capacity on Sundays. I watched as the women's ministry hooted, hollered and danced their worship today. All the water is pumped from wells and electricity comes from a deisel generator at night. A few dogs roam the property along with a bunny and lots of lizards. It is walled with razor wire for security. You would hardly imagine how much security is needed in this wild part of the world. Just today I went to a river where a man was killed by the LRA a few years ago. Some boys were swimming naked in the muddy water a few feet from where he was cut down. Far Reaching put up fences to protect the chaplains' families nearby. Murder is more common than you'd think. Life is cheap in Africa. today it rained. Huge drops of rain thundered down. No thunderstorm is like an African thunderstorm.
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