Most Rev. Macram Gassis
Bishop of El Obeid Diocese, Sudan

Dear Bishop Gassis Friend,

They flee by the thousands from their burned out homes and villages—the war weary, the starving and the dying.

Just when the world thought the crisis in Darfur could not get any worse, an escalation in the conflict is creating a refugee crisis of epic proportions.

Over the coming months as many as 4.5 million Africans in the region will endure human suffering on an unimaginable scale.

Many of them will risk their lives to escape to the refugee camps through my diocese, because their only hope is that which the grace of God and the Bishop Gassis Sudan Relief Fund can provide.

With only the funds we have on hand today, my emergency relief services will be overwhelmed by this enormous influx of many thousands more people in desperate need.

That is why I am rushing this EMERGENCY APPEAL to you today, in the prayerful hope that you can find it in your heart to make a gift of $40.70 to cover the cost of one Refugee Kit containing food staples, blankets, mosquito nets, spoons, forks, soap and other essential items.

For more than 9 years my Sudan Relief Fund has been bringing water, food, shelter, and the message of Christ’s love to the African people of Sudan.

We’ve drilled bore wells, brought in food, clean water and medical supplies, built schools, and trained teachers and catechists. With the support of people like you, we have provided shelter for the bodies and souls of a generation of Africans displaced by war.

But, today, as we face what the UN calls “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” I must call on you yet again to help us get emergency food, medical supplies and clean water to the refugee camps before thousands more arrive and find our emergency aid resources exhausted.

It’s the rainy season in Southern Sudan now. Roads are nearly impassable, rivers are swollen and the refugee camps are filled with mud. Our brothers and sisters in these camps can’t wait until autumn when the rains end to receive our help. THEY NEED OUR HELP NOW TO SURVIVE!

Malnutrition was already at emergency levels before the rains began. As a result, there is not a moment to lose. Every day more innocent victims stream into the camps. Every day more people are dying. Every day without clean water to drink, life-saving food to eat and basic medical care, more people will die—especially the children and the elderly who are among the weakest and most vulnerable.

Never the less, despite the severity of the crisis your support of the Bishop Gassis Sudan Relief Fund will save countless lives and bring the healing message of Christ’s love to suffering Christians and ethnic African peoples of Sudan.

But with increased dislocation of vast populations in the region and the supplies of food and medicine dangerously low, we need your HELP NOW if we are to avert starvation and death on a massive scale.

If you could just see the unbelievable suffering I see, I know you wouldn’t hesitate to say YES to my appeal.

But I know that the horrors happening in my diocese have been, tragically, largely ignored by the media in your country. So you will have to take my word for it when I say that unless you and others step in and give generously, hundreds of thousands more men, women and children in my diocese could face death from starvation or exposure in the coming weeks and months.

We know from 9 years of cruel experience what their most critical needs are—basic nutrients and utensils, blankets, mosquito nets, soap and a few other essentials. Our cost for putting together one basic “Refugee Kit” containing these items is $40.70 in U.S. dollars.

Please consider the most generous sacrifice you can manage at this time to fund one, two or more Refugee Kits.

In this land filled with the displaced, sick and dying any gift you make, no matter how small, may be a gift that saves a life. So please, give from the heart and give whatever amount you can to help these victims of a brutal and unjust war.

As the bishop of this scorched, but not God forsaken diocese I turn to you for a much needed emergency donation today!

And please pray for us as we seek to do God’s work in this war-ravaged land.

May God bless you for your faithfulness and charity.

Yours in Christ,

Bishop Macram Gassis
Bishop of El Obeid Diocese, Sudan

P.S. Please send your gift of $40.70, $81.40 or $500, $1,000 or more if God has blessed you with extraordinary generosity in response to this EMERGENCY APPEAL. Please fill out the donation form by clicking the donate now button at the bottom of this page. Your assistance is needed now to save lives of new victims fleeing Darfur now and thousands throughout my diocese in Sudan. You’ve done so much to help us in the past please—don’t desert us now. Thank you and God bless you.

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