Ways To Get Involved
Hope for the Children of Southern Sudan
Ways to Get Involved
- Pray for peace.
- Visit the www.africaaction.org web site and click on "Action Center." Join the list serve and send action letters to our nation's leaders. We need to keep Sudan in the news and on their minds. Insist on multi-national intervention.
- Organize a book reading / discussion group using "They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky." Help to educate others about what has happened and what continues to happen in Sudan. A program study guide is also available under "Links and Resources".
- A children's resource is available that goes along with the children's book, "Brothers in Hope" and is available under "Links and Resources."
- Contribute to Holston’s "Hope for the Children of Sudan,” Advance Special #537. Funds will assist with education, health and basic humanitarian needs of Sudanese children who have survived war.
- Write an editorial to your local newspaper. People respond when they know and understand what the issues are. Sample letters are available at the Africa Action web site.
- Host a film fest. Consider showing "Hotel Rwanda," “The Lost Boys of Sudan,” or "Invisible Children" and lead a discussion following the movie.
- Utilize the “Christian Faith Action Packet” from www.savedarfur.org, for sample prayers, bulletin and newsletter inserts, photo display materials, and curriculum links.
- Interested in being a part of a Sudan mission team? Complete and send in a Sudan Mission Team application.
- Pray.
Join Holston by ...
Providing Support for Fred and Libby Dearing, District Superintendent, Sudan District, East Africa Annual Conference and Holston Conference. Email SudanHope@holston.org to receive a Salary Support form or find it on the web at www.SudanHope.holston.org under “Links and Resources.”
Provide Support for Steve and Diantha Hodges, Volunteer Missionaries. Email SudanHope@holston.org to receive a Salary Support form or find it on the web at www.SudanHope.holston.org under “Links and Resources.” Blog - http://steveanddianthahodges.blogspot.com
Providing School Needs: Help a child go to school -
$50 – would provide tuition and a uniform for a child to go to school
$60 – would provide tuition, a uniform, school supplies and a chair
for a child to go to school
$75 – would provide all of the above and food
$100 – would provide all of the above plus $25 that would go
toward building a new school in a UM Church Village
Providing Classroom Space: The first three blocks of the school building have been built and are in use. The new buildings, complete with desks, replace an open-air, thatched-roof structure where students sat on the ground or stools and used the dirt for a chalk board. Some 630 students are now educated in these classrooms.
Providing Educational Scholarships: Scholarships are being provided for promising young adult students to achieve college-level education in Africa. Currently, four students are enrolled in various schools.
Other opportunities: provide Bibles, clergy/pastoral support, malaria nets, or an orphanage.
