Teacher Training in Khartoum in 2005 (left) and a skit performed by future teachers (right).

Ventures similar to the Boma project are currently impractical in Khartoum and the Sudanese North where Christians are considered far inferior to the Muslim and are treated with disdain.  Here we are taking a different approach.  In the fall of 2005, just after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed, a team of Bible trainers went to Khartoum and held a conference for church leaders on how to reach the next generation with the love, forgiveness and reality of Jesus Christ.  We believe the hope and future of Sudan rests in its children and the potential for godly leadership they represent.  The response has been very encouraging as about 90 young people representing 40 churches attended the first year and again in 2006 and 2007.  Our goal of identifying a cadre' of leaders the Lord would use to carry on this training themselves was realized in 2007. A group of 22 young people representing 17 churches have committed themselves to meeting on a regular basis for prayer, mutual encouragement, sharing of ideas and to plan training for children's leaders in all the churches in Khartoum and beyond. The role of SEA Partners will be to support and encourage this group of leaders by supplying resources and providing them with more intensive training as the Lord allows.