As I read this news and think about the stand taken by the Sudanese bishops, I’m reflecting on the crisis in Sudan. I have close personal friends who have worked in Darfur. I know quite a bit about the suffering and need in Sudan. How much easier it would have been for the Sudanese bishops to ignore the problems in the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion and be consumed by their own needs. How easy it would have been for them to close their eyes to the actions of TEC and NOT make waves, so as to continue receiving much needed gifts from wealthy Episcopalians. And yet, that is not what they’ve done. They have done the opposite.
None of the partners in the US will stop giving – Louie Crew, at his “natter” calls for even more support for them regardless.
Glad to hear that Ann. Thanks!
Thank you for posting these powerful prayers. I am printing and pasting them into my prayer journal. Indeed in Truth the Holy Spirit has made them bold. May our prayers, on their behalf, join to strengthen that boldness.
Even in their extreme suffering for their faith and for their people their witness to that faith shines out into this troubled Communion.
The Rev. George Conger has a wonderful picture of Sudan’s Primate, the Most Rev’d. Dr. Daniel Deng Bul at his blog:
http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/the-archbishop-of-juba-and-primate-of-the-sudan/
http://geoconger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/imgp4783.jpg?
Alms for Sudan.