"Sioux Center Sudan"

When:
Sunday, Apr 30, 2006
Time:
6:00 PM
Where:
First Reformed Church, Sioux Center, IA
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Sioux Center Sudan
by Jeff Barker

Sioux Center Sudan tells the story of Arlene Schuiteman, an Iowa school teacher turned African missionary nurse in the 1950s. One of the first people Schuiteman met during her boat ride to the village of Nasir was a young man with tuberculosis. He taught her the Nuer language while she nursed him back to health and shared Christ’s love. 

Schuiteman’s ministry touched many members of the young man’s tribe before she was thrown out of the country in 1963, just as the civil war began. Schuiteman never returned to her Sudanese home, instead retiring in Iowa in the late 1980s. In God’s mysterious ways, though, he brought Sudan to her through a reunion that spanned miles and years.

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