Dear Friends,
We are eager to meet together for our next Monitor prayer session on Monday, November 11th at 7pm ET. These meetings bring forth insightful discussions and wonderful opportunities to come together in a thoughtful and prayerful way for our world. Tee will be our host. We would love to have you join us.
This week we will consider the most recent article from Sudan. Its focus is COMMUNITY. We will also include the current Why We Wrote This podcast that shares why and how they went deep on Sudan, where a civil war has been devastating, but where resilience and agency endure. Both links are listed below. It is helpful to have read the article and listened to the podcast beforehand, but you are welcome to join us regardless. Feel free to share this email with others who might want to participate, as well.
Article: How a Sudanese refugee in Uganda is keeping his homeland alive through food
by Sophie Neiman, 10/25/24 KIRYANDONGO REFUGEE SETTLEMENT, UGANDA
This is the fourth article in a series from Sudan that we are publishing this week, highlighting that country’s travails and citizens’ efforts to overcome them. Read the first three articles here, here, and here.
WHY WE WROTE THIS
Sudan’s civil war has forced more than 11 million people to flee their homes. In a refugee camp in Uganda, one restaurant owner is trying to resurrect his homeland with food.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2024/1025/sudan-war-uganda-refugees-food
Podcast: ‘A bridge to humanity’: Behind a Monitor series on an underreported story,
Why We Went Deep on Sudan
Clay Collins, Peter Ford and Ryan Lenora Brown, 11/1/24
“Our stories in and from Sudan are about how … people can rise above that chaos and the difficulties and they can find ways of working together to overcome their problems,” Peter says on our “Why We Wrote This” podcast. That coverage, which included a recent series organized by Johannesburg-based editor Ryan Lenora Brown, helps give readers “a really different picture of life in Africa.”
https://www.csmonitor.com/Podcasts/Why-We-Wrote-This/wwwt_2438
There is also an episode transcript available as one scrolls down on the linked page.
The podcast is available on Apple and Spotify, as well.
We are looking forward to this expression of church that propels us towards prayer.
Warmly,
Your JP Monitor prayer team (Brian, Janell, Joe, Sarah and Tee)