Reaching Out When the Barriers Are Too Great

 This is Rhoda...

 She walked five days to Yida (South Sudan) with some neighbors to join her mother, Sarah, who had arrived earlier. Thankfully, she was safely reunited with her mother, and her 23-day-old sister, Kua. Rhoda’s father is a soldier in Nuba.

Read about the November, 2011 bombing of her refugee camp:

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/support_for_south_sudan_refugees/?utm_campaign=Argyle+Social-2011-11&utm_medium=Argyle+Social&utm_source=General+Use

She received immunization, registered as a refugee, and received food rations from Samaritan’s Purse, an international, Christian disaster relief organization.

I don't know Rhoda, nor will I probably ever meet her.  If I could communicate with her, what would I say, how would I say it?  Would she understand me?  A face with a name, a precious life and child of God--she deserves to be loved, respected, nurtured and protected. 

She and her family live very distant from me--distant in miles and very distant in culture. 

When our compassion cannot reach those in need, when great physical and cultural barriers exist, how do we communicate our hopes, our desires, our love for them?

Click here to see a new report and video about the influx of refugees: http://spsocial.org/Bff