Sudan

Students attending the Loka Senior Secondary School
My father recieved an email this morning  from our field coordinator in Sudan, Dickson Mutiso, informing us of some very sad news. His email said that one of the students from the Loka Senior Secondary School (LSSS (a Global Response Project)) was bitten by a snake and died.  This [...]

cleftRock

On Monday, we left for a place called cleftRock to get away as a family so Dad and John could unwind from their most recent trip to Sudan and also to kind of prepare for my upcoming trip to Thailand. cleftRock is a retreat center for pastors and missionaries and their families. It is a [...]

IDP Camp Update

As this post is written, my father, Tom, and my brother, John, are in Sudan with the rest of our team coordinating and distributing food, clothes, blankets, hoes, seeds, and other essential items to more than 1,200 people in the Internally Displaced People’s Camp in Loka. As far as we know, everything is going very well. [...]

Great news!

I have some wonderful news to share. GRN has raised almost $20,000 for the IDP Camp in southern Sudan!!! This is truly an act of the Lord. It has been amazing of how many people have responded so quickly to reach out to these people. To date we have been able to give about 200 [...]

Critical Need In Southern Sudan

As many of you know, my father and a friend recently returned from Sudan. While they were there, our GRN team had an opportunity to visit a new IDP (Internally Displaced People’s) camp that has settled in Loka (Home of GRN Sudan). The situation is critical! These people were displaced by the Lord’s Resistance Army [...]

Amma’s Birthday

Papa and Amma left this morning. I wish they could have stayed longer, but, I am very thankful for the few days we did have with them.
Here are some pictures that I took yesterday while we celebrated Amma’s birthday.

Papa and Me
 
P.S. $1500 has been raised for the 1200 people in the Displaced Peoples [...]

Urgent Need in Sudan!!

Hi All,
This is an update from my Dad who is in Sudan right now.  His assistant, John, wrote this on our website www.grnconnect.org. PLEASE take the time to read this. Thank you!
Dear GRN Team,
We had an urgent need come up here recently. Within walking distance of our compound in Sudan, there is a Displaced People’s Camp [...]

Update: RSV

Praise the Lord that Matthew is feeling quite a bit better. He’s still having breathing treatments, but his smile is back and he’s not coughing near as bad as before.
Jeremiah ,on the other hand, also has RSV now  . He got it about three days ago. He too is taking breathing treatments. Yesterday [...]

Special Video

I feel like I have been posting a lot of videos lately, but, I keep finding ones that I like and want to share!
This one is filled with pictures of some of the people the Lord has impacted through Global Response Network in the past ten years or so. The song playing was written and [...]

Please check it out!

Hey All,
Please check out my ‘Global Response Network’ page and scroll towards the bottom of the page to view a 1:08 minute video of what GRN is currently working on.
Thank you!

GRN- Please Watch! Important Sudan Video

Every Monday morning, GRN posts a video called *lifeonline. ‘Take a look at this weeks *lifeonline for a real glimpse at what real life is like in Southern Sudan. The people there are in great need of our prayers and support. Let’s go to God on behalf of our brothers and sisters in Sudan.
*Please allow this [...]

Home Safe and Sound/Commitment Update

Good morning! The guys arrived home safe and sound last night and we are so happy to have them back. Other than having jet-lag, they are doing great .
 
 Okay, commitment update. Well this week didn’t go as well as I hoped, but I do feel like there has been some progress [...]