Prayer partners update - June 2018

Dear BGC Prayer Partners,
We are now approaching the end of the semester and exams are beginning today (4th June) and we need your prayers for the students.
It has been a successful semester. The next academic year will see the beginning of our new degree course sponsored by The Episcopal University newly established by the ECSS. I attach our principal's exciting letter.
Blessings to you all and thank you for your continued prayer support.
Trevor

Revd Canon Trevor Stubbs,
BGC International.

Dear Trevor,

I have been moving up and down in the last few weeks. I left Juba on 9th May 2018, going for CAPA (Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa) theological Consultation meeting in Nairobi. It was a fruitful time to hear around the region from the people who are heavily engaged with theological education far and wide. We had brothers and sisters who are head of theological institutions from Ghana, South Africa, DRC, Zambia, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan. The major subject which carried the days of our meeting was how could our curriculum be relevant to the contexts of our theological institutions. What we teach must address the issues.

Another meeting in Mombasa with Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali on matters to do with "Crossing Cultures for Christ." It is a continuation of a meeting we had in Dubai 2016. Islamic is a challenge across the globe and as a church of Christ, we must move forward through cross culture in every aspect of our ministry. For example, we are teaching Islam as a course at BGC. We don't do it merely on apologetical ground but we educate our students to understand Muslim worldview.

BGC- the college has been pushing pretty well and we thank God for the performance of our students. As I mentioned in the last update, our intake is improving very well. Tina, our former BGC English Teacher and Librarian worked hard to raise the English writing standard for students who joined the college between 2010, and 2011. It was a time when South Sudan went through a linguistic shift from Arabic to English. Besides, continued war fought in the country had also deprived most of our generations.

Through her hard work to improve their English skills, those students were graduated from BGC with a great command of English. Encouragingly, some of them managed to finish their Bachelor Degree programs from refutable universities and colleges like Uganda Christian University (Uganda) and George Whitfield College (South Africa). Peter Angui Akook, and John Jal Deng, will soon to graduate as they plan to join their teaching ministry.

In recent times, primary and secondary schools, especially private schools, have tried to style up their education standards and that is a foundation which our students dearly need. We are blessed to have our pioneer class of Bachelor of Theology at BGC, and this goes in line with the vision of The Episcopal University. Our library and quality of the faculty we have are the major bases of this endeavour.

We are going to end our term at the end of the first week of June, 2018. Exams begin on the 4th June, 2018.

We request your prayers for them and they prepare to get involved in the ministry in their dioceses.

Blessings,

Rev Samuel Galuak