John and Poppy Spens are CMS Ireland Affiliates working in Southern Sudan.
News and articles from John and Poppy Spens
Journey to Nuba Mountains...
Both of us had been invited to attend and speak at the Samaritan’s Purse(SP) staff conference in the Nuba Mountains so Monday 21st June saw us flying in a 12 seater plane with some SP staff from Juba to Kauda…
Goja says "Thank you!"
The opening of a new school brings much joy to the community in Goja. John and Poppy Spens share more about this important day…
Panyana School Opening
John and Poppy travelled to Panyana for the grand opening of a new school, the building of which was funded by the Basic Services Fund and project managed by CMS Ireland. Brass band music set the background to this important day for the local community…
The appeal of Tom and Jerry
Poppy and John find themselves broken down on the road back to Yei…click here to find out what happened next…
November news..
November has begun and we only have a few weeks remaining before we return to the UK for the month of December. October was extremely busy: launching the mobile clinic, hosting several visitors, preaching in the Cathedral and dealing with banking issues…
Birthdays, Banks, BSF and Busyness!
May has rushed by and we are nearly at the half way point of our 15 week stay in Yei. Poppy celebrated her birthday here in April and John celebrated his on Saturday. It’s not easy to find suitable presents and Sudanese people do not generally celebrate birthdays. So Poppy gave John an African shirt and two apples!
With the Church, through the Church to the Community!
Thanks to the support of the Department for International Development’s Basic Services Fund (BSF) for Sudan, CMS Ireland is working with the Dioceses of Yei and Lainya to implement the HEART project. HEART stands for Health, Education and Rural Transformation.
In the Nick of Time!
Today 30th April 2009 we witnessed the unfailing provision of a faithful God. During April, the Nile Commercial Bank where both the College and Martha Clinic have funds ran out of cash. The Martha clinic had all its cash reserves in the bank.
Facing Giants...
There are many thatched ECS churches in the Yei Diocese and last Sunday, we had the opportunity to visit the Zamba church, where John was invited to preach
Reaching Out...
Today I went to an Internally Displaced Peoples’ (IDP) Camp near Lainya, about 35 miles from Yei. A small village had fled from the LRA about 6 months ago and have set up camp near Lainya. They have no health care and little food. They have made temporary houses with tarpaulins for the roof. It is thought there are 300 people there. There were many children of whom several were malnourished, as well as many pregnant women.
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