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Kitgum

Kitgum is located in Northern Uganda. Northern Uganda has seen vast devastation and hopelessness. During their cowardice days of destruction, the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) Rebels abducted small children, forcing them to be soldiers. They would force the young girls to be their wives and bear their children. They set out with a goal to destroy the government, but instead they wreaked havoc on the Acholi people, their own people. They would chop off limbs, murder parents in front of their children, and even force people to kill their own families and friends. They reigned by terror, living in the bush, attacking villages and pilfering for food. Now the violence has subsided and finally there is a sense of peace in this land, at least for now. As the dust has settled from the 21 year war, what remains are lives that are ravaged by poverty and disease, a people who are desperate for relief. They are desperate for hope.

Jesus is the only hope for these people who have lost family members, who have been forced to kill, who have been maimed and left for dead. Jesus can offer them eternal life and victory over their pain for this life and the next. The people of Kitgum do not have to be victims any longer, Jesus came to set them free, and when they discover this truth they will be more than conquerors.

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Pogee

Pogee, Sudan is located just over the border from Uganda. It is about an hour and a half drive from Kitgum. This village was a major playing field during the previous war between the Northern Sudanese government and the South. It was also an area where the LRA attacked. Many people fled and took refuge in Uganda where they lived until recently. Now they are back in their home, trying to rebuild their lives. There is a serious drought of the Word of God in this area. Many people claim to be Christians but do not know much at all about what God has for their lives. Others have not yet heard the Good News of the Gospel. Like the people of Northern Uganda, the people of Pogee are desperate for a touch from Jesus and for His love to make something beautiful of their broken lives. God has a plan for the people of Pogee, and though they are obscure in the eyes of the world they have never been forgotten by God.

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