Prayer Request and a Chance Encounter

On Saturday and Sunday, March 28-29, Dennis Kiyimba and I will be leading a leadership formation retreat for six young adults from Torit at the St. Joseph Diocesan Youth Center in Ikotos. The purpose of the retreat is to deepen these young people's relationship with Christ and prepare them to serve on the team of the Bread of Life diocesan Eucharistic Youth Retreat at the end of May. Their names are: Peter, David and Addis-Ababa (the young men); and Stella, Hellen and Sunday (the young women). Please pray that this experience will be a significant one for their spiritual lives. I will try to post some photos of the retreat next week.


On our way to pick up some Bibles from a local Evangelical missionary couple, Russ and Lynn Noble (Russ is originally from Long Island and Lynn from Kent, England; they met here in Sudan where they have both served for a number of years) we came across a jubilant Lotuko procession with young people in traditional dress, their heads and faces whitened with powder (a sign of joy), waving flags and blowing whistles. They came out of a side street just in front of us, marched a little way down the main road, then turned onto another side street. Some occasion worth celebrating, such as the betrothal of a couple, must have just taken place.


As an aside, the average high temperature here in Torit from mid-February to mid-March was 99 degrees. That means on occasion it was hotter here. Now with the arrival of the rains, it's begun to cool off a little to the average high temperature in early February: 98 degrees. You can check the weather here by clicking on the link on the sidebar.