Nathaniel Garang Anyeith Jak-Dit, retired Bishop of Bor, died February 24th in Nairobi, Kenya. The Province of the Episcopal Church in South Sudan announced that the transportation of his body from Nairobi to Juba, South Sudan, and visitation homages at All Saints’ Cathedral, were scheduled for March 12th and 13th, respectively.
Trekking with Bishop Garang in 1994 through war-ravaged communities east of the Nile, the American missionary Marc Nikkel wrote, “He would declare to those who see themselves as the last remnant of holocaust, ‘God has not discarded you …He is doing a new and marvelous work beyond our understanding: He is transforming the peoples of Sudan.’” (Why Haven’t You Left?, ed. Grant Lemarquand, 2006.)