{"id":12904,"date":"2024-05-01T13:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12904"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T21:06:25","slug":"sudan-a-left-behind-bible-leads-to-churches-in-the-land-of-cush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12904","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: A Left-Behind Bible Leads to Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: God Reports, April 29, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuraldaim Hassan was raised as a Muslim in a Muslim area of Sudan, at some distance from any Christian influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, a man traveling from Gofa stopped at his home along the roadside during a rainstorm. Nuraldaim\u2019s family welcomed the man into their home to rest. After the traveler moved on, Nuraldain noticed the man had left behind a Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curious, Nuraldain began to read the Bible over the next several days. Later, Nuraldaim\u2019s father saw him reading and asked who gave him \u201cthat book.\u201d Nuraldaim told him the traveler left it behind. The father took the Bible and forbade his son to read it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, one of Nuraldaim\u2019s friends happened to be a Christian and told him more about Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, Nuraldaim visited a church with his friend. A leader at the church told him that there was an opportunity to go to Bible school. Nuraldaim and some of his friends agreed to attend even though he still had not accepted Christ. It was not until after he was at Bible school that Nuraldaim accepted Jesus as His Savior and was baptized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nuraldaim still does not know who left the Bible in his home but knows it was God\u2019s amazing way to reach him. Now, he is a leader in the Blue Nile Community Churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.godreports.com\/2024\/04\/traveler-left-bible-behind-it-led-to-the-growth-of-the-blue-nile-churches-in-cush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The full story<\/a> includes more context about Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan\u2019s civil war is now in its second year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cisanewsafrica.com\/sudan-international-response-inadequate-25-million-people-half-of-sudans-population-need-humanitarian-assistance-say-agencies-after-one-year-of-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">25 million people, nearly half the population, require humanitarian assistance<\/a>, according to aid agencies (Catholic Information Service for Africa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: God Reports, April 29, 2024 Nuraldaim Hassan was raised as a Muslim in a Muslim area of Sudan, at some distance from any Christian influences. One day, a man traveling from Gofa stopped at his home along the roadside during a rainstorm. Nuraldaim\u2019s family welcomed the man into their home to rest. After the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=12904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sudan: A Left-Behind Bible Leads to Churches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12913,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions\/12913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}