300 baptised in Sudan!
Our friends at Catalyst shared wonderful news of from South Sudan over social media! Watch this video in the tweet – what a celebration!
Some good news to start the weekend! In South Sudan, we are working with the Toposa people, who this week baptised 300 new believers...and celebrated with a whole lot of joy! pic.twitter.com/rbIQpiWVLr
— Catalyst (@CatalystNetwork) January 22, 2021
Anna Fry from Christchurch Hailsham has written up more of the context for what’s been happening among the Toposa people:
Newfrontiers has been partnering with believers in the Toposa people group, an unreached people group in South Sudan, for over 23 years. The Toposa are a warrior, cattle rustling, nomadic tribe with a reputation for being fierce, they have suffered much with war, poverty, famine and lawlessness.
In 1998 when Simon and Anna Fry first got involved, there were only five known believers in a people group of over one million, however in the last five years we have had the joy of seeing and hearing of thousands of Toposa turning to Christ with hundreds being baptised every year, including 300 in the last few weeks. Over 60 churches have sprung up close to the Ethiopian border as brave groups of believers take the gospel to remote and often very dangerous areas of South Sudan. Some of these churches have over 300 people gathering now.
The gospel is advancing, thanks to years of translation work they are able to hear and read much of the New Testament in their mother tongue and are receiving it with repentance and joy. The challenge now is how to disciple and train new believers, nourish new churches led by first generation believers and to see kingdom values filter down into culture and lifestyle. Take heart the kingdom is advancing, scripture is being fulfilled, He is coming again and people from every tribe and nation will worship our beautiful Saviour.
Let’s give thanks to God and celebrate the joyful news of Jesus’ Lordship in all the earth! We love hearing stories like these from our friends across the Newfrontiers spheres and to see glimpses of what’s happening across the world as we adventure together on a global mission.
With thanks to Catalyst for sharing this story with us.
17 March 2021
A couple of months ago, our friends at Catalyst shared wonderful news of from South Sudan over social media! Watch this video in the tweet – what a celebration!
Some good news to start the weekend! In South Sudan, we are working with the Toposa people, who this week baptised 300 new believers...and celebrated with a whole lot of joy! pic.twitter.com/rbIQpiWVLr
— Catalyst (@CatalystNetwork) January 22, 2021
Anna Fry from Christchurch Hailsham has written up more of the context for what’s been happening among the Toposa people:
Newfrontiers has been partnering with believers in the Toposa people group, an unreached people group in South Sudan, for over 23 years. The Toposa are a warrior, cattle rustling, nomadic tribe with a reputation for being fierce, they have suffered much with war, poverty, famine and lawlessness.
In 1998 when Simon and Anna Fry first got involved, there were only five known believers in a people group of over one million, however in the last five years we have had the joy of seeing and hearing of thousands of Toposa turning to Christ with hundreds being baptised every year, including 300 in the last few weeks. Over 60 churches have sprung up close to the Ethiopian border as brave groups of believers take the gospel to remote and often very dangerous areas of South Sudan. Some of these churches have over 300 people gathering now.
The gospel is advancing, thanks to years of translation work they are able to hear and read much of the New Testament in their mother tongue and are receiving it with repentance and joy. The challenge now is how to disciple and train new believers, nourish new churches led by first generation believers and to see kingdom values filter down into culture and lifestyle. Take heart the kingdom is advancing, scripture is being fulfilled, He is coming again and people from every tribe and nation will worship our beautiful Saviour.
Let’s give thanks to God and celebrate the joyful news of Jesus’ Lordship in all the earth! We love hearing stories like these from our friends across the Newfrontiers spheres and to see glimpses of what’s happening across the world as we adventure together on a global mission.
With thanks to Catalyst for sharing this story with us.
