Impassable roads. Bombed-out clinics. An unschooled generation. Scattered families. Increasing HIV infections. Traumatized communities.

	Dr. Rob Congdon, Director of the Doro Grieve Primary Health Care Center (Project # 98018). Besides patient care, training is offered for HIV and AIDS and community health workers.

Decades of war left South Sudan with unimaginable needs that threaten to defeat all attempts at solutions. Nevertheless, a coalition of partners has boldly begun the process of rebuilding the church and nation.

Laiu Fachhai, Director of SIM Sudan, wrote to his team: “Good and active partnership between Christian missions, churches, and organizations will be a strong testimony of Christian unity to Sudan, a land that has seen anger and disunity. Therefore, SIM will continue to proactively promote and facilitate partnership in Sudan in the coming years. … [W]hile partnership does at times become messy, God will help us overcome. Let us concentrate on our similarities and common vision and purposes, rather than dwelling on and emphasizing a few differences.”

In 1972 SIM helped start “Across” (www.across-sudan.org), a partnership of several agencies and churches. Other partners now rebuilding South Sudan with us include:

• The Sudan Interior Church (SIC)
• Teachers from the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA)—Nigeria
• Teachers from the Kale Heywet Church (EKHC)—Ethiopia
• Samaritan’s Purse
• Cush Partnership (research network)
• World Relief
• A water engineer from the Bible Church of Africa in Ghana