World Relief's Ministry in Darfur, Sudan

As violence continues to increase in the Darfur region of Sudan, please keep the people of Darfur in your prayers.

The peace agreement signed over the weekend is a hopeful sign, but only one step in the process. Your prayers, advocacy, and support are still needed to contribute to the restoration of Darfur. They will allow World Relief to extend our service to those suffering from malnutrition, displacement, and destroyed livelihoods.

In Darfur, as many as 400,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million people have been displaced. Darfurians struggle to survive amidst daily violence and attacks. Their precious lives are disregarded by their perpetrators, but God does not overlook their suffering, and neither should His Church.

Christians have been responding to the conflict in Darfur by supporting the Darfur Relief Collaboration, a group of Christian relief and development agencies who have combined skills and resources to care for 90,000 Darfurians.

As the lead agency in this collaboration, World Relief is engaged in improving health conditions through food, nutrition, water, and sanitation services. For more information on the work of the Darfur Relief Collaboration please read the attached “Darfur Report,” or visit WORLD’s article at http://www.worldmag.com/articles/11823.

Over the past 2 years, World Relief has invested $2.6 million in Darfur, made in large part by a match grant from the Canadian Food Grain Bank. In August, this phase of the program will finish and we will be eligible for a new grant; however, to leverage this grant World Relief needs to raise $200,000.

Please prayerfully consider whether you or your congregation would be willing to support the ongoing work of the Darfur Relief Collaboration. Because of the match grant from the CFGB, your contribution will be leveraged at an approximately 10 to 1 ratio, so that $1,000 will make $10,000 worth of impact, and $10,000 will make $100,000 worth of impact.

To give online, visit https://www.wr.org/gettinginvolved/donate/ or send your check to World Relief , 7 E Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21202.

There are two other ways that you and your congregation can lift up the people of Darfur. Through prayer and advocacy you can give voice to Darfur before our Father and before our government. For specific prayer requests, please refer to the “Darfur Report,” and for more details on advocacy, please read the attached “Darfur Action Plan.”

If you would like to raise awareness in your congregation, then a bulletin insert and powerpoint are available upon request.

Thank you for remembering those who are so often forgotten. We are praying for God’s healing hand in Darfur and for lasting peace in Sudan. We are praying that God would raise up His Church to be a voice for the voiceless, that this suffering would come to an end. May it be so