http://www.deepsouthsudan.com Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:12:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since the beginning of these erratic dispatches I’ve tried to maintain one simple rule:  Don’t ask for money.  This collection of messages and emotions and thoughts was never meant to act as a way to raise funds for Cornerstone.  Yes, I’m naïve enough to imagine that writing – ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=172 Despite an honest effort to spike these dispatches with hope I think you might be getting the impression that Sudan and my own psyche are on some kind of downward spiral.  Well, I can’t speak for the entire nation, but the home where I live and serve – ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=170   Amazing...the kid is smiling and laughing again.  He’s reaching out his hand to touch my hand.  He’s slapping my forearm with giddy force or giving me low-fives twenty times per minute or just staring at me like I’m the most wonderful thing in the world...                                                                         – June ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=166 I.   There’s been some upheaval in my heart, which is my excuse for not writing.  I made some plans in America, but after a month in Sudan I chose to set them on fire.  In the recesses of my palms they burned slowly.  I’ve never seen anything take so ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=164 I’m sorry I’m so late in posting these photos of Christmas.  I hope they make you terribly jealous.  I hope they make you want to spend some time in Sudan. http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=163      I’ve been back in the States since the first of the month.  I went into hibernate mode in Kansas for about two weeks (morning coffee in the afternoon, happy/sad ventures into the land of junk food, limitless, brain-liquefying access ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=157 Matt Kynes, who spent a delightful three months with us last year, sent me a recent report from the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). Lise Grande, whose title rivals the Mississippi River in length, authored the report and describes the situation in the South as a “humanitarian perfect ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=154 The work shut down for a spell, but it's about to restart. Two truckloads of materials arrived late last month. Santos spent three weeks in Kampala gathering the stuff and processing the necessary documents to get it out of Uganda and into Sudan. At the tale end ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=149      As one group of missionaries (Emily, Adella and Christian) were preparing to head back to the States, another team arrived.  Murielle along with Sarah, Ini, Alie and Drew devised a completely insane two week love festival.  There was one sunset, early in their stay, in ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=147 I feel I owe you an apology.  I haven’t written anything in months and my silence is a great source – a Parisian fountain in fact – of personal guilt.  I know I ought to be telling you about my life, but my life seems to ... http://www.deepsouthsudan.com/?p=146