Photo: Gathering at the AFRECS exhibit at the Louisville General Convention were (L to R) Archbishop Hilary Garang of South Sudan; Joseph P. Alaak of the Diocese of Nebraska; Dorothea Brooks, member of the Standing Commission on World Mission; Bishop Anthony Poggo, Secretary-General of the Anglican Communion; Anderial Lual of the Diocese of Arizona; and Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Capetown and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Three Sudanese rectors of Sudanese congregations in the United States were active at the recent Louisville Convention. The Reverend Agook Akuol serves a South Sudanese congregation in Houston, Texas. The Reverend Anderia Lual serves the congregation of St. Paul the Apostle in Phoenix. Arizona. Joseph P. Alaak, a graduate of Virginia Seminary serving as Assisting Cleric/Sudan Missioner at St. Martha’s Episcopal Church in Papillion, a suburb of Omaha, was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop J. Scott Baker on August 16. Deacon Daniel Kuol assists at Messiah Trinity Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
Elsewhere, The Rev. Zachariah Jok Char and Deacon Abraham Muong Anei lead worship in English on the first Sunday and Dinka on the other Sundays of the month in Sudanese Grace Episcopal Church’s own building in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Jacob Deng Aleer is scheduled to be ordained to the priesthood August 31 at St. Andrew’s Church in Des Moines by Bishop Betsey Monnot of Iowa. The Reverend Kwathi Akol Ajawin, pastor of the African Sudanese congregation at Cornerstone Free Evangelical Church in Annandale, Virginia, plans to visit Sudanese congregations in Melbourne, Australia in the month of September. John Thon Majok directs the Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.