Most Rev. Macram Gassis
Bishop of El Obeid Diocese, Sudan

Dear Bishop Gassis Friend,

If anyone ever needed Christ's mercy and your immediate aid, it is the persecuted people of Darfur and South Sudan.

You see, the radical Islamic government of North Sudan has once again begun a murderous persecution of my people.

In recent weeks, the North has bombed towns and villages and fired indiscriminately on civilians striking fear in the hearts of over 300,000 people and sending them fleeing for the bush and south into my diocese.

Already the children are weak from lack of food and water and living out in the open. We're treating casualties at our Mother of Mercy Hospital — burns, broken limbs, gunshot and other such wounds. And each day more and more refugees arrive for treatment at our Mother of Teresa Hospital in Turalei.

They have nowhere to go . . . no food to eat . . . no clean water to drink . . . and they are frightened and praying that the world we see and respond to their suffering!

Friend, these are desperate times here. And I need your help immediately to save lives! Most of the world is ignoring the ethnic cleansing happening here. But I have faith somehow that you will not turn your back on us.

I have refugees lining the roads, living under trees, I have them crowded into and seeking refuge in the courtyard of the church in Mayen Abun. This massive crowd of suffering and persecuted humanity is on the move with nothing but for the clothes on their backs.

In Darfur and along the border between North and South Sudan brutal Arab militias from Khartoum are displacing more people every day. And this growing tide of human misery in my diocese is creating a crisis of dire need in a land where people already have so very little! Yet, still, we try to give what we can: a piece of bread . . . a small bowl of sorghum . . . a cup of clean water . . . safety from bombs and bullets.

I urgently need more sugar, salt, flour, mosquito nets, blankets and water for the displaced.

That is why I rushed this EMERGENCY APPEAL and pray you will find it in your heart to make a gift of $40.70 to cover the cost of one refugee kit with food staples, blankets, mosquito nets, soap, salt and other essential items.

For more than 11 years my Sudan Relief Fund has been bringing water, food, shelter and Christ's love to the people of South Sudan with the support of good people like you.

We've drilled bore wells, brought in food, clean water and medical supplies, built schools and churches, and trained teachers and catechists. We built and are operating our Mother of Mercy surgical hospital in the Nuba Mountains as well as running a hospital among the people in Turalei.

Over the years, we have often been the only organization on the ground providing for the bodies and souls of Sudanese Christians and ethnic Africans scarred by the horrors of genocide and war. Today, in this time of renewed violence and hardship, other aid organizations are turning to us to get life-saving aid to the people. Many have left the region out of fear for their workers.

But, today, as we face what the UN calls "the world's worst humanitarian crisis," I will not leave my people.

I must call on you to help us get refugee kits to Darfuri and other Sudanese refugees while we can still save lives.

The rains have arrived and what few roads exist are virtually impassable. But we know that our brothers and sisters from Darfur and the border towns of Abyei and Agok and those from the Nuba Mountains — the very heart of my diocese — can't wait until autumn when the rains end to receive help. THEY NEED OUR HELP NOW TO SURVIVE! So immediate delivery of vital refugee kits is my top priority.

There is not a moment to lose! Every day more innocent victims stream into the camps and into towns further south. And without clean water to drink, life-saving food to eat and basic medical care, more people will die — especially the children and the elderly.

The cost for putting together one refugee kit is $40.70 in U.S. dollars.

So please, consider the most generous sacrifice you can manage at this time to fund one, two, three, four or more kits. If you cannot afford the full cost of a kit, please give $20 or $25 and I will find another donor's gift to match with yours.

Any gift you make may be a gift that saves a life. So please, give from the heart and give whatever amount you can. And please pray for us as we seek to save lives here in this isolated and war-torn land. Thank and may God bless you for your charity.

Yours in Christ,

Bishop Macram Gassis
Bishop of El Obeid Diocese, Sudan

Please send your gift of $40.70 to fund one Refugee Kit, today! Or if God has richly blessed you perhaps you can fund two, three, four kits or more. Many aid groups have fled from Darfur and my diocese, and your Church once again stands alone as Christ did in the garden of Gethsemane. Please "stay awake" with us during this terrible time and give as much as you can. God bless you.

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