Sudanese MINISTRY

Trinity's Sudanese Ministry is an ecumenical ministry shared with the Roman Catholic Church involving the nearly 60 Sudanese college-age refugees often referred to as the Lost Boys of Sudan. The Trinity community includes many active members and families who are Sudanese. Their worship traditions and language add a wonderful dimension to many Sunday services.

Opportunities often arise to get involved with our Sudanese members — for example, mentors and tutors are often a help to members who are students. Please check News for current requests.

For more information, please contact Fr. Jerry Drino at jdrino@sbcglobal.net.

Donations for scholarships for Sudanese orphans and other students in Kenya, Uganda and the US can be made in care of “Trinity Episcopal Cathedral” (Tax ID #94-1156841).

http://www.hopewithsudan.org/

Mercury News Reports on Trinity Members' Return to Sudan

In a front page article in the San Jose Mercury News, reporter Patrick May reports on the journey of three "lost boys" from San Jose to their home in Sudan.  Read the entire article here.

Newest Citizens

Samuel Garang Akau became a U.S. citizen on October 18, 2006. A recent graduate from Stanford University, he represented the Cathedral at last weekend's Diocesan Convention and spoke to a political science class at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with Fr. Jerry. He will be leaving for the Sudan in November to spend three months doing an educational needs assessment for the New Sudan Education Initiative, and then return for graduate school. Congratulations!

Abraham Thon Deng, a leader of the Sudanese Ministry and member of the Vestry, became a citizen on September 20, 2006. He is in his senior year at San Jose State University, is secretary of the National Coalition of the Willing which is seeking to build schools in his home province in Jonglei, Sudan: www.coalitionofthewilling.org. Arriving here in 2001 as one of the Lost Boys, Thon graduated from De Anza Community College in 2005 and is studying economics and humanities. He hopes to return to the Sudan to rebuild the homeland of his birth. He joined James Magai Chol as the second U.S. citizen. Congratulations!

Fr. Drino Returns from the Sudan

Fr. Drino arrived back safely in San Jose in mid-November, 2006, from two weeks in Kenya and the Sudan. He was met at SFO by members of the Sudanese community, who also were there to see Samuel Garang Akau off to the Sudan, where he will be doing some work for the Coalition of the Willing until May of next year. Fr. Drino’s plans were significantly altered when attacks were made on civilians in certain regions that he planned to visit. A total of 47 people were killed including a close friend and priest during these raids. Pictured at right is part of the traveling team from around the US and Kenya, at a meeting with Abraham Jok Aring, the Commissioner for Bor County, Jonglei State, pictured fourth from the left.

Rev. Richard J. Jones (left), professor of mission and world religions at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va., and Enock Tombe, provincial secretary of the Episcopal Church in Sudan

American Friends of the Sudan Meet

In the tenuous peace that has taken hold in Southern Sudan, the local Anglican Church finds itself in a position of influence as perhaps the only major institution in the war-torn country that crosses tribal and ethnic boundaries, according to a number of participants gathered for a weekend meeting Feb. 17-19, 2006, at Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, Calif.

The conference, sponsored by the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS), drew about 150 Episcopalians from both the United States and Sudan. They committed themselves to rebuilding impoverished parishes with the hope that they can contribute to keeping tensions and tempers from re-igniting the war.

Read Rev. Jerry Drino's full article in the Living Church Foundation:
www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=1707

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