Sudan in 2011
A Moment We Can Stand Together
As Southern Sudanese Determine Their Final Destination Through Referenda
A reception featuring
Abraham Yel Nhial
Newly consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Awiel in southern Sudan
Sunday, October 10, 2010, 12:45 p.m.
at St. Paul by-the-Lake Church
7100 N. Ashland Blvd, Chicago, IL
Abraham Yel Nhial was one of the 27,000 boys
in southern Sudan who were forced out of their
villages in the late 1980s by a civil war. They
fled first to Ethiopia, then to Kenya, where Nhial
learned about Christianity and underwent his
conversion.
In 2001, Nhial and approximately 4000 other
Lost Boys and Girls were brought to the United
States. He earned a bachelor's degree from
Atlanta Christian College, then a master's
degree from Trinity School Ministry in Ambridge,
Pa. In July, 2010, he became one of the newest
bishops of the worldwide Anglican Communion
He is married to his childhood sweetheart,
Daruka Aloung Bior; they have 3 children.
"God called me back home," Nhial said
during a recent visit to Fort Worth. "I
never thought this could happen. But God
planned it for me. God can use anybody."
"The preacher (in Kakuma refugee camp
in Kenya) talked about John 3:16 and it
really touched my heart," he said. "I found
that God not only loved the world, but he
also loved me, because I was a part of
the world."
Read more at: http://www.borglobe.com/11.html?m7%3Apost=sudan-s-lost-boy-finds-his-calling
Sponsors: The Chicago Association for the Lost Boys of Sudan, Sudanese Community Association
of Illinois, Chicago Sudanese Church of St. Paul, and Wheaton Sudanese Community Church.
For more information about this event, contact:
Deacon Abraham Awan @ 773-344-0783
For more information, log on at:
http://www.lostboyschicago.com/ or www.sudanesecommunitycenter.org