I'm sitting in the Detroit airport, which is surprisingly familiar from the last Sudan mission. Today I'm on my way to England to attend a meeting of Blackmore Vale Deanery and discuss the possibility of a three-way relationship between us and Lui.
Even when Missouri isn't actively preparing for a mission, there is always something happening on the companion diocese front. Recently we provided funds to buy a new generator because the old one had broken beyond repair. Our friend Stephen has been in Kampala to get a visa - he is attending a conference in Sweden next month. And our friend Margaret has been in Nairobi awaiting her US visa for studies at Eden, but she could not get an interview soon enough to start school this semester.
Meanwhile, LRA attacks are getting worse and worse in Ezo, and horrible killings are occurring between tribes in Jonglei State. Our Moru friends are lucky to live between the affected areas, but of course problems anywhere affect the whole country, so there is growing despair because of these problems and the sense that both the 2010 elections and the 2011 referendum are at risk.
Missouri Senator Kit Bond is the ranking member of the Africa subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. If you have feelings about the US taking a strong stand in helping uphold the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, as Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul has asked us to do, contacting Senator Bond could be a good move.
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