CRM Partners,
The Holy Spirit inspired the person who wrote Psalm 119 to express these words in joyful exultation about God’s Word.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste sweeter than honey to my mouth 104 Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore, I hate every false way 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
You, our CRM prayer partners and donors, made it possible for us, in conjunction with our field partners in Sudan, to finance the purchase and shipping of 1,000 New Arabic Bibles, 50 Arabic study Bibles, and 200 Arabic language praise song books, to 10 different locations in Darfur. The cost of those materials was $14,600 and the shipping costs totaled $600. Messages of thanks have started coming in from leaders who received their allotment. Alamadin has translated them into English for our benefit. I have attached a picture of one leader who had just received one of the 50 study Bibles. I trust you will be encouraged by how quickly your prayers and donations for this project have been answered. Souls will be won for eternity because of your willingness to give and pray.
Shown here are two pictures Adam sent which depict the conditions many believers are dealing with who live in IDP camps scattered throughout Darfur. Once again, this year, the rainy season has brought torrential downpours. This means the hastily built mud wall structures built by displaced brothers and sisters have collapsed. Therefore, our Sudanese partners have submitted a proposal totaling $9,000 to provide mosquito nets, plastic sheeting, and some foods items to provide relief to believers forced to live out in the open in squalid conditions. Adam mentioned that if any organizations do show up to provide aid, Christians will often purposely be excluded from receiving anything given that those who oversee distribution are Muslim.
I have been asked by our partners to put this request before the CRM family. Click here to read a recent article dealing with the flooding.
Messages of Thanks
Pastor Hadid wrote
Our church gives special thanks for your useful contribution. We have received a gift that no one has ever given us. We believe that these Bibles will enlighten our community and will bring peace of heart. When we received our Bibles believers didn’t believe that Bibles have arrived. They have declared fasting and praying for the doners who supported these Bibles. For Bibles are our top need in this time. Throughout of 19 years war in Darfur we have never ever experienced peace like what we have experienced in Jesus Christ through reading our Bibles in group and listening our audio Bibles. I am very happy with audio proclaimers we have received in Sorrong last time. When I move inside of our village, I could hear people listening audio proclaimers in different houses. Reading Bibles is new era to our community. For they have never ever read Bibles before. Let’s pray for our people to hear the gospel unless they hear the they would not believe. Pray for more Bibles we need to provide for all believers.
Muhammad from an IDP Camp wrote.
Thank you so much for considering us as part of your family in Christ. We have received Bibles and praising song books. You have solved for us a big problem. A problem that two Church members stopped coming in the church over a dispute on Bible. But as they have heard that Bibles have arrived they came back. Glory be to Jesus Christ. Our request is to help us with more Bibles. We are receiving members very frequently and every time they come they need Bibles. We will soon declare Darfur for Christ. Let’s pray for each other to help the community understand the good news.
Thanks alot for your invaluable support of Bibles and praising song books. We from Darfur deeply appreciate your donation and sacrifice. Your generosity helps us to know God and have relationship with him. Your brothers and sisters in Christ are now confidently praising God and sharing the message of grace together. Nine Muslim families have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour within two days, when Salima took her Bible and shared the good news with them. We will keep praying to God to connect us more tightly to save many who are still in a darkness. Your love gave life to these nine families. Let’s pray that they be fruitful to their community as well.
We are so excited for we have received our Bibles and praising song books. Thank you so much for these valuable gifts. We were just dreaming and praying for it. But our Lord Jesus Christ may all glory go to him made it available. They are valuable and appreciated. We will be able to change our community through them. We will be praying for you to keep your generosity. You don’t know how much this will help us. First we don’t have Bibles in the market like yours whenever you want to buy you will find it and buy it in the market. But here it is forbidden in the country to sell and buy. Muslims deceived people if you touch a Bible you are unclean until you fast for three days. That’s why traders are not bringing it here. So please Continue pray for us that God will make Bibles available. We believe if our community read the Bible we will have better society. May God bless you.
Your brother in Jabal Marra.
For His glory and honor.
David Crane
