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Recent grads depart for Sudan

Both recent Geneva grads, the Farises will spend three months working alongside a team of Reformed Presbyterian missionaries living in Aweil, Sudan. Along with exploring the possibility of joining the team on a long-term basis, the couple will put their individual talents to use.

Daniel will help construct a home for a missionary family and conduct one-on-one ministry with men in the area. Natalie, an independent linguistics major, will teach English classes as well as build friendships with the women. 

Heading for the mission field hasn't come as a completely foreign concept to the Farises.

"We have both had a number of overseas short-term experiences that God has used in our hearts and lives to cultivate a global vision for Christ's kingdom," Natalie said. "We had thought that perhaps someday we might serve overseas. But as we began to consider the specific areas of need and ideal stages of life for exploring such possibilities, we soon realized that there is no time like the present."

As a Bible professor who had both Daniel and Natalie in class during their years at Geneva, Dr. Jonathan Watt said their decision to go to Sudan demonstrates "thinking in the classroom translated into hands-on action and life decisions that include both sacrifice and risk".

"I'm both pleased and humbled by it, because I have a sense of what someone is giving up to do this," Watt said. "They have received much from family, friends and institutions, and now they're going to be giving much."

As they packed up last week for the trip — everything from a tent they will live in to a wind-up flashlight and a solar lantern in place of electricity — the Farises said they expect God to do great things even as they face many unknowns.

"The most reassuring thing is that we are only jars of clay (2 Corinthians 4:7), and that it's all about God's strength and not ours," Natalie said. "Going to such an extreme place will remove all doubt of that, should we or anyone else be tempted to think we can do it on our own. It is God's work, done only through his strength, only for his glory."  

Daniel, who completed his history major at Geneva just a month ago, said he and Natalie rest on the assurance that Christ will continue to grow and extend his Church to the ends of the earth.

...PRAY FOR EACH OTHER...

James 5:16

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