Genesis 42:36 “Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my children. Joseph is no more…and now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!”
Genesis 45:5 Joseph said, “And now do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.”
God plays the long game. By that I mean His plans always unfold as He intends. And that’s true even when we short-sighted humans cannot understand. Jacob’s statement is a classic example. The conditions he bemoaned were created by God in order “…to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.” Genesis 45:7.
Even today, our God, the Alpha and Omega, saves lives and brings about a great deliverance through all that is unfolding in Sudan. Sinful men will have to answer to a holy God for all their evil deeds. But God, through the giving, praying, and going of His saints, will yet use what men intended for evil for “the saving of many lives.” Genesis 50:20.
The recent testimony of Salim, a new Sudanese believer, vividly illustrates God’s “long game” and how He overrules evil:
Salim was someone who searched for truth his entire life. He memorized the Quran, went to Egypt for Islamic studies, and served as the Imam of his mosque. In 2003, some Christians shared the gospel with him. They quoted Acts 4:12 and John 14:6 in their presentation. While he did not receive the Lord Jesus that day, for the next 22 years, he knew something was missing in his life.
In November 2025, Salim and his family fled the city of El Fasher, where they lived through the horrors of a 500+ day siege, for the safety of Tawila. After arriving at one of the Tawila area’s refugee camps, Salim received food and shelter provided by CRM. More importantly, local Darfurian Christians shared the gospel with him.
Among other things, Salim said “I believe God spared my life so that I could be saved by Jesus. I now know that without Jesus there is no peace, no salvation, and no life. Salvation is found in Jesus alone.”
Salim is but one of the 417 Muslim escapees from El Fasher who received the Lord Jesus in Tawila during December 2025. Two new churches and ten small group Bible studies were also started in the same region whose IDP camps are now home to over 700,000 people.
These new Christians need God’s Word if they are to mature in their faith. God has created a supply chain to deliver Bibles and solar powered ministry devices to Darfur via CRM’s boots-on-the ground team. CRM’s foremost goal in 2026 must be—and is—supplying God’s Word and training new church leaders in Darfur.
Vast numbers of Sudanese Muslims, like Salim, know something is missing in their lives. They are coming to Christ by the thousands. Will you join us at this momentous time in history?
In His Name,
David Crane
President, Calvary Road Ministries