Loading...Greetings in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ!
The extended families of many at Resurrection Church in Louisville remain in Sudan and Burma/Myanmar, countries torn by oppression and conflict. We pray for God’s presence, ever with them. We also strive to be faithful in our Gospel response to each other in things great and small and to let the Spirit of God move through us.
In a letter to our congregation, Bungoma Parish in Kenya asked for help in their worship and music ministry, to procure a keyboard, computer, and piano. This request was hand delivered by Deacon Daniel Kuol after he visited the church and upon his return to Louisville from Africa this summer. The vestry posted the request on our website and is gathering funds from parishioners. We promised the Bungoma Parish that we would also post the request for funds on our diocesan website.
We live in abundance. Please consider contributing something to our brothers and sisters in Bungoma Parish. Send a check made out to Church of the Resurrection with a note in the memo line that the donation is for Bungoma Parish in Kenya and send it to the church.
Faithfully,
The Rev. Suzanne M. Warner
Resurrection Episcopal Church
4100 Southern Parkway
Greetings in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ!
The extended families of many at Resurrection Church in Louisville remain in Sudan and Burma/Myanmar, countries torn by oppression and conflict. We pray for God’s presence, ever with them. We also strive to be faithful in our Gospel response to each other in things great and small and to let the Spirit of God move through us.
In a letter to our congregation, Bungoma Parish in Kenya asked for help in their worship and music ministry, to procure a keyboard, computer, and piano. This request was hand delivered by Deacon Daniel Kuol after he visited the church and upon his return to Louisville from Africa this summer. The vestry posted the request on our website and is gathering funds from parishioners. We promised the Bungoma Parish that we would also post the request for funds on our diocesan website.
We live in abundance. Please consider contributing something to our brothers and sisters in Bungoma Parish. Send a check made out to Church of the Resurrection with a note in the memo line that the donation is for Bungoma Parish in Kenya and send it to the church.
Faithfully,
The Rev. Suzanne M. Warner
Resurrection Episcopal Church
4100 Southern Parkway
Louisville KY 40214
August 1, 2010
Reverend Abraham Lual Panchol
Episcopal Church of Sudan
Diocese of Bor
Office of the Pastor in Charge
P. O. Box 539-50200
Bungoma, Kenya
Dear Reverend Panchol,
Greetings from your brothers and sisters in the United States in Kentucky at Resurrection Episcopal Church.
We are in receipt of your letter of request hand delivered by Deacon Daniel Kuol to our vestry in July upon his return from Africa. The vestry did consider your request earnestly and thoughtfully. We are a very small church but have voted to organize and lead an effort among the churches in our Diocese to raise money to assist you with the purchase of the items in your letter.
Because we ourselves are an aided parish it will take the assistance of lots of people to fulfill your wish but we are going to undertake this project to the best of our ability.
We plan to list your request to Resurrection on our website as well as on the Diocese website. When the funds are raised we will forward that to you directly.
You continue to be in our prayers and good wishes,
Sincerely,
Virginia L. Woodward
Senior Warden
Resurrection Episcopal Church
Brothers and sisters in Christ,
The Rt. Rev. Nathaniel Garang Anyieth, is a hero of many faithful Sudanese Christians. He visited Louisville in 2009 and Jeffersonville, Ind. in 2003. Bishop Nathaniel is retiring on March 1, 2011.
Born in 1940 in a small village called Deer in the Diocese of Bor within Dinka tribe, Bishop Nathaniel was a gift to the Southern and the Juanbian (the native) Sudanese. He offered himself to fight for the freedom of Southern Sudan in the 1970’s. He was called by God to seek ordination to the priesthood, and left Sudan to attend the African Pentecostal School of Theology in Kenya, to be ordained in1976.
Afterwards, he returned to Sudan.
The second civil war, which has destroyed the country, started in the South in 1983. In 1984, Bishop Nathaniel was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese of Bor in Juba, Sudan. He was the first bishop to encourage the people of the region to abandon their traditional gods and follow the Living Christ. Also, he has played a big part in the Sudan movement by telling the world for several years about the Christians in southern Sudan. The other bishops inside Khartoum were not allowed to speak and were restricted from leaving Sudan (if they did, they would be killed), but Bishop Nathaniel did it with God’s help.
Bishop Nathaniel has worked hard for his people, preaching the word of the Lord for 26 years without any benefit for his work. As you may know, more than two million lives have been lost in the civil war. The Southern Sudan has been torn apart for decades. There is no system for retirement there as we have here in America.
The Episcopal Diocese of Bor has formed a committee to put their hands and hearts to raise funds within the diocese and outside Sudan in order to build a home for the bishop before his retirement.
So, I, Daniel Kuch Kuol, am sharing news of his ministry and retirement to ask fellow Christians to contribute some money to help buy a nail or a brick for the home. I know that we are in a very terrible financial crisis that affects every one in the USA, but the little hand you give will make a big difference.
Please, if you have something to give, make a check to the Church of the Resurrection and note in the memo line that the donation is for the retiring Bishop of the Diocese in Bor (BDB). Then send it to me before Christmas so that I can send your gifts to the Diocese of Bor.
If you have any questions, please call me (502) 303-8645.
Thank you so very much,
The Rev. Daniel Kuch Kuol
Deacon at Resurrection
4100 Southern Parkway
Louisville, KY 40214
Episcopal Church of Sudan
Diocese of Bor
Office of the Pastor In Charge
P. O. Box 539 – 50200
Bungoma – Kenya
4th June, 2010
RESURRECTION EPISCOPAL CHURCH
4100 SOUTHERN PARKWAY
LOUISVILLE, KY 40214
Dear Brethren,
REF: A REQUEST FOR ASSISTANT:
Praise the Lord! I believe that all is well with you.
It is with due respect and perfect courtesy that we shall request with the following items; we are hereby as Bungoma Parish wishes to perfect and to edify the powerful ministry of our Lord Christ.
However, we therefore extend our needs to you in a free will manner in that we lack many instruments chiefly for praise and worship and in these collections we wish to single out, Keyboard (US $ 660), Computer (US $ 500) exclusively.
Please! Please beloved brethrens in Christ we need your blessed hand to rest upon our church for the next step in terms of materials and financial support.
Moreover, we beg you to respond to us whole-heartedly, may we embrace ourselves in the love of Christ our King and may God pour upon you His shower of blessings and see you through the blessing
And prosperous year 2010 “AMEN”.
Hope to hear from you soon,
In Christ’s service, yours,
Rev. Abraham Lual Panchol,
Cell Phone: +254715689116
