URGENT: SLAVERY NEWSFLASH

I was intending to share with you some of the stories of those who have gone through modern-day slavery and have been rescued from it. Instead, my mother brought to my attention an article pleading for prayer and help regarding slavery in Sudan. This is URGENT. LISTEN UP.

Make Way Partners uses the hope of the gospel and goes to the most vulnerable peoples of the world to protect them from human trafficking and sex slavery. They currently have an orphanage called New Life Ministry in Sudan with five hundred and fifty orphans. Sudan is plagued with a civil war. The radical Islamic government that has taken control of northern Sudan is unleashing heavy assaults on southern Sudan, aided by the help of LRA, the Lord's Resistance Army, made up of rebels from Uganda. The orphanage is asking for PRAYER that God would PROTECT the orphans, and WISDOM on if and when they should evacuate the orphans. Here is the story of what happened when the LRA invaded a nearby village. LISTEN and WEEP for these CHILDREN.

“It is really so very terrible! They gathered all the little children together and started killing their people right in front of their eyes. The children were so terrorized. The LRA then made the children begin killing their own parents. After the slaughter, the boys were forced to carry large metal barrels, and the girls were forced to fetch water to fill the barrels. They then had to build fires around the barrels. While the water began to boil, the children were forced to hack up their parents and fellows bodies and throw their dismembered parts in the boiling water. After sometime, the children were forced to eat their own parents and fellows flesh…once the LRA knew the children were so traumatized they would do anything, kill anyone, and not try to run away, they left the village with their new soldiers and sex slaves.”

Can you believe this is happening? Well, it is. WAKE UP. PRAY. These are people created in God's image. These are CHILDREN being put through these horrible things. How can we SIT here and not do anything? Not even PRAY? This is a time for the CHURCH, for US, to rise up and plead with God to PROTECT them. To GIVE if we can. To GO if we are able. To most definitely SPEAK. Become a VOICE for these children!

I beg with you to pray for these children who are taken. To pray for the protection of the children in this orphanage, that their hearts might be comforted in all this terror. God is there! HE listens to the VOICES of HIS children! Pray that more people might come to know what is going on. Pray that God might use you to be a VOICE. Pray for wisdom for the leaders of Make Way Partners. Pray for peace in Sudan. The world is a much scarier place than we as Americans like to think. Wake up to the horrors of this world, and SPEAK. PRAY.

Children, made in the image of our God.

CAN YOU HEAR THEM CRY?

STOP. LISTEN. SPEAK.

PRAY!

With sorrow,
-Lauren

Original Article by Stephanie Anderson