Now that I’ve arrived in Amman, I plan to do a series of recap posts regarding Ethiopia and Uganda, as that is where my missions endeavors have been thus far. I hope you find the chronology easy to negotiate.
SSGMA; South Sudan Gospel Mission Alliance is a group I found online in December of 2013. Since making contact on December 12th, we have been in regular contact. I applied to join their mission team online and so I never actually met anyone in person until three of us arrived at JFK airport on May 25th. SSGMA has three hubs: Lincoln, Nebraska, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Gambella, Ethiopia. The first two cities help with planning, fund-raising, logistics, and vision. Gambella is where the orphanage and leadership training facilities will be located.
One of our keys in Addis, at least that’s how I’ve come to think of him, is David. He and the David from Lincoln, David Cassner, spent quite a bit of time both catching up, and discussing the future.
The other American I travelled with is named Deng Buok. Deng immigrated from South Sudan over a decade ago. He hopes to return to Africa to work with the church there, once he’s completed his education credentials for pastorship in Omaha.
As it is meeting any group of people for the first time, discerning movers from talkers is difficult if not impossible. There would be a lot of feeling out taking place over the next 10 days, from all sides to all sides. In the end I thought I had a reliable grasp of who will make a difference in the coming years. Most of those men were not present in Addis.
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