I am very delighted by the work you are doing. I hereby send my heartfelt gratitude to GSLTC for inspiring us and helping us to be fruitful. It is my prayer that you will extend the same service to our brothers and sisters in southern Sudan who have not yet been reached by GSLTC. I believe that personal growth is a key to success and that is what GSLTC is helping us to achieve. Change alone is not enough. Our growth has enabled us to evaluate where we are coming from and where we are going.
Course participant
Kakuma Refugee camp
February 2007

We would like to request the Good Shepherd Leader Training Centre to assist the Jol Wol Lieech ( Youth Ministry) leadership in New Site to acquire leadership and development skills, and to acquire knowledge about the foundation of the church and its history. We would also like to be taught on how to go about conflict resolution. We have been able to accomplish a number of things so far because of the training that the Good Shepherd Leadership Training Center had offered to some of our members. Right now we are doing well in accomplishing activities like evangelizing other youth, building and construction projects such as of our office, and writing worship songs, but we feel that we are limited in some areas. We would like to be more systematic and effective in the way we work and we can only achieve this through GSLTC because we have seen the fruits of its training among us.
Thanks.
Ev. Dot
Chairman
Jol Wol Lieech committee
New Site, Eastern Equatoria Diocese of Bor S. Sudan

A Christian Soldier discovered a vision to transform others
After being inspired and equipped by the GSLTC, I became convicted with much hope to improve the literacy levels among my comrades who previously had no access to education. I did not know that I have a potential to help others but through the training of GSLTC I was able to see far and to dream. My dreams for the next few years and what I have already started is to introduce literacy classes (on how to read and write) among my comrades who were previously engaged in the war for the liberation of our country and could not go to school. Therefore; I shall double my effort to help the soldiers know how to read and write through a kind of adult education programme that I am establishing. As we wait either for the unity or separation of the Sudanese people in the interim period, it will be good if my comrades in the army could read the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and understand how it will transform their lives. This calls for an accelerated or adult learning programme. If I do this, it will help the army leaders to know the objectives of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement / Army and besides that they will be able to know the policies and the political roles which are positive to the society. Above all they will be able to know Christ and his love. Additionally, as a financial clerk of a military unit, I have learnt much knowledge during the GSLTC training that has given me a new way of understanding things, in this case I will encourage my comrades to keep proper records of accounts that they are entrusted with because they are only stewards of the money they keep as we were being taught at the GSLTC. I want to mobilize them to be active and participative in learning the English language, as they will be expected to communicate with their seniors, expressing their own ideas in English. I would like to see those holding higher positions in the army in future to be more effective. And the only way is by being proficient in English. This is the vision I have received in regards to the training that GSLTC has given us. Dr. Oladipo and Rev. Daau told us in our week training that a leader must be a visionary leader and he or she must be a good steward of the vision and the resources that he /she is ask to be responsible. I pray that God will bless this dream and inspire people that this programme will extend to other units in order to eradicate illiteracy among our soldiers. Finally, my feeling is that Good shepherd Leadership Training Center should build a place so that all leaders in Southern Sudan must come to that center in side Sudan to learn those good skills and knowledge offered by this unique institution. Thank you Good Shepherd L.T. C
BY David Bol Ayul
GSLTC participant
Commando, New site, Sudan
June 2007

Training has given ideas to improve personal and family status for the glory of God
After the GSLTC training, my eyes have been opened to other opportunities. I discovered a decision that I cannot depend only on the government small salary that I am now earning. I have to find other means of raising money to support my family. I intend to open up a small micro business, which will need only a small capital to start it up. I am also thinking of starting to rear livestock and chicken. All these activities will be a blessing to God and will improve our living standards at the family level, instead of just sitting down and waiting for big things to come my way. Through the teaching I received from GSLTC I have resolved that every job I do is important and is valuable in the eyes of God. Now I am returning home with the zeal to teach my family and friends to work hard and not to be lazy for the glory of God. This way we are able to fight poverty that has been made permanent by the long war. I plan to do all this, if God wills just for His gory.
By Santino Achiek
Nimule Southern Sudan,
GSLTC participant
August 2007

……“A leader takes people from where they are to where God wants them to be.” These are the words of Bishop Nathaniel Garang that served as the theme of the recent clergy conference in Nimule. Reverend John Daau, Pastor James Kuria, and I joined together with the Bishop to cover different aspects of this theme during the first part of the training organized by the Good Shepherd Leadership Training Center. My focus was on the biblical foundation for mission and the call on the lives of the Southern Sudanese Christians to reach out to others. When God called Abraham to mission (Genesis 12:1-3), He explained that Abraham was blessed to be a blessing to others. In this same sense, the southern Sudanese are being called by God to be a blessing to others as they share a saving faith in Jesus. Clergy, lay leaders, and spouses attended the conference from many denominational backgrounds. Four days of walking was necessary for some to attend. They represented the people who remained in southern Sudan during the many years of fighting and those resettling from IDP and refugee camps. All were hungry for knowledge to share with their flocks………
Dr. Katie Rhoads
Missionary Doctor for Uganda/Sudan Medical Mission
August-October 2007

I am very grateful because of the trainings you offered to us in July through August. I am also grateful to God because of the opportunity to participate in these trainings. You really gave yourselves and we urge you to keep on with that spirit. The one-week counselling for trauma course was really helpful and timely for me because I am a counsellor. I thank God for this chance he gave to all of us. Finally I wish to say that you need to establish more training here in Kakuma and you can establish a GSLTC office and compound in Southern Sudan such that all our pastors must be taught there.

Abraham Maketh Aruai

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