We believe that the church is a community of Christ followers that are sent locally, nationally, and internationally to see lives transformed into disciples of Jesus Christ. God has led us to make a long-term commitment to serving Sudanese locally and globally.

In a partnership with Aid Sudan we are working with an estimated 1,200 southern Sudanese immigrants that have come to call Houston home. We serve them in many different ways that include ministry to human need and life skills training, along with discipleship and mentoring. We also assist in Aid Sudans vision to train Sudanese immigrants whom God has called to return to southern Sudan as missionaries to their own people.

We not only have a commitment to work with Sudanese locally but also in the Western Equatoria region of southwest Sudan. We have specifically focused on the Jur people, a tribe of approximately 200,000. These peaceful farming people are hardly known in the outside world, and the need is great among them.

For most of the past five decades the country of Sudan has been ravaged by civil war. The war has left southern Sudan decimated, with no infrastructure, no quality education, and much disease and hunger. But in 2005 the long-standing civil war ended through a peace agreement between the Islamic, Sharia law north, and the animist and somewhat Christian south. This peace agreement expires in January 2011, at which time the south will vote to either remain with the north or become an independent nation.

In this critical six year period in southern Sudan, it is our prayer that God would move through our going, giving, serving, and praying to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that protects the southern Sudanese people from the spread of Islam and helps build a nation grounded on the gospel of Jesus Christ.