When asked to prioritize the needs of their people, the leaders of SEA listed in order the following 5 issues they felt needed immediate attention:
As with most people everywhere, giving their children a better life through education was at the top of their list. After some investigation to find an area to begin our partnership with SEA, we identified an isolated and impoverished tribal community in southeastern Sudan called Boma. Boma is home to three tribes; the Murle, Jie and Kachipo which
together number about 40,000 members. Due to the war, many who lived in fertile Upper Boma (Boma) moved to arid and non-fertile Lower Boma (now called Itti). They located there to receive aid supplied by the UN and other relief programs. A majority of the people in both Upper and Lower Boma are presently trapped in a welfare mentality with little hope for a better future.
There has never been a functioning school or church in Boma. After meeting with the tribal chiefs and sharing with them our desire to help them build a school, their response was to give us 52 acres of land for this project. Through this school, we plan to address each of the 5 needs identified by the SEA. With two classrooms completed, Faith Learning Center opened for kindergarten and first grade in January of 2008. Work has begun on the next phase of 8 additional classrooms with a future secondary school in the planning stages. 
Teachers from Kenya will have Sudanese assistants from Boma who will learn alongside them and be trained for one day taking over these teaching positions. We are using the school building project as a workshop for training local Sudanese men to gain skills in brick making and construction. After developing part of the acreage for a demonstration farm, in April of 2007 we provided each of the 10,000 households in Boma with seed to plant corn using farming techniques taught them to raise their own food. The first harvest in Boma took place in July of 2007 amid much rejoicing. The school itself will have an extensive garden from which students will be fed and the surplus sold to help pay teacher's salaries. Parents will work at the school and gardens as payment for their children attending. Boma presently has only one operating well shared by all the villages in a 2 mile radius; the drilling of three more wells is planned in 2008 and 2009. 
We hope to soon be sending teams of medical personnel to begin doing training in community health issues and initiate the process of opening a clinic in Boma. And while all of this is taking place, the teachers, staff and volunteers will be sharing the gospel with these precious people not only in word but in loving actions. A pastor has been appointed to the new Boma church (Boma Christian Center) and in just a few months over 150 people now attend every Sunday morning.
Our goal is to work ourselves out of Boma. Each aspect of the Boma project is designed to train the local people with the skills and knowledge that will enable them to independently operate what we helped them begin. When sufficient progress has been achieved in Boma and the school can stand on its own, we will turn over its operation to local leadership. Our prayer is that true community transformation will become a reality and the people of Boma can begin providing for their families, have access to education for their children and continue to grow in their understanding of a God who loves them and has not forgotten about them. From this pilot project we will then move to another similar area in Southern Sudan and begin the process all over.