Cal Bombay Ministries

It never rains, but it pours! With a slight change, our South Sudan experience would state it this way, It never rains, THEN it pours!

Summer 2013
harrow and plant. And, of course, there is no such thing as crop insurance in South Sudan.

My deep concern is that not only will this cost a great deal Our growing season in April of money, it will cost lives. started with good rains. Just When a wide-spread drought when the maize was flowering, takes place in a region such it stopped raining. Then, just as Eastern Africa, starvation becomes a horrible reality. The price of food sky-rockets and those who can least afford it and need it most are thrust into crisis. Thats the bad news. Last season we had the largest harvest ever. We had problems with the generator that provides power for the mill. This left us with close to 200 tonnes of grain in storage that we were unable to mill. Harrold Grinde, one of our volunteers from Alberta, went to Bori and set up a system that

Maize in storage at Bori

Drought has killed this crop

in time some rains came and hope arose in our hearts for a good harvest. Those re-commenced rains lasted for two days only then a drought set in which affected crops throughout all East Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Eastern Congo, and South Sudan. This drought caused our whole crop to shrivel and dry. No harvest at all. This was to be the main growing season for this year. We had to quickly plow that crop back into the earth and buy more seed. Another rainy season was supposed to come in July, and it did so heavily that we could not get our machines into the fields to

happened at a better time. God, in his foreknowledge caused us to store up grain for a drought that He knew was coming. It reminds me of Joseph in Genesis. God knew that hard times were coming and prepared help for His people. Our stores are certainly not enough to meet the vast needs of the many thousands who are facing extreme hunger. But it will be a great help for those in the Kajo Kaji area. Your partnership with CBM does have a great impact on people in South Sudan.

For six months I have been in prayerful conversation with Rev. Augustin Rulinda. He and his wife lived through the Rwanda holocaust when more than 900,000 people were slaughtered. They are Milling flour at Bori from the two tribes involved in the slaughter. They went allowed us to run half the mill as missionaries/refugees to via the PTO on a tractor. Our Cameroon, then Algeria. In Russian generator is now fixed 2009 they came to Canada as and the mill is running at caAsst. Vicar of All Saints Anglipacity. This couldnt have can Church in Waterloo. They

are very deeply committed to Jesus Christ and have a strong call from God to go as missionaries to South Sudan. We have agreed that Rev. Augustin Rulinda will pastor the church (which will seat about 600 people) at Bori, the

three volunteers, led by Frank Schwieger from Red Deer, Alberta will arrive in South Sudan in early September to install the equipment and bins. On a sad note: Our first Secretary Treasurer of the Board for CBM was Mr. Jack Price, CEO of The Price Group. He had to resign from the board a few years ago for health reasons. He went to be with his Lord on Monday, July 15th. He was a great support to CBM and will be missed very much by all of us who knew him. Thank God for men like him. Please pray for his wife and family. The Board of Directors of CBM has decided to found the Cal Bombay Foundation. As you may know, Foundations attract support from other Foundations which are interested in supporting such endeavours as we are involved in both with Harvest Sudan and Cal Bombay Ministries. Please pray with us that this will prove to be a strong, longrange guarantee that South Sudan will have the support they need to become the bread-basket of Africa, and a country with both integrity and world respect for their ethics and wise leadership. For you folks on the prairies I will be speaking at Elim Pentecostal Tabernacle, Saskatoon, SK on Sunday October 20th with Pastor Marvin Wojda. Hope to see some of you! We really do need your continued support in the years to
Helping small Farmers

Rev. & Mrs. Augustin Rulinda

headquarters of the Savannah Farmers Cooperative. He and his wife are in their late 40s. They are intent on evangelism and helping the people in social development. They are, because of their own experience in Rwanda, in a unique position to help people overcome the trauma of many years of war, starvation and

come with the crisis of food shortage in Eastern Africa. It has become even more vital that we develop small farms as well as big farms for mass production. Please do not set the enclosed envelope aside. Summer is a very tough time for charities, and we are no exception. Yours very sincerely in Christ, for South Sudan

Cal. R. Bombay

Cal with seeds for Bori

Church at the Bori compound

marginalization. Would you pray for them and for their ministry in South Sudan. A 40 foot container filled with both machinery and grain bins is due to arrive in Kampala, Uganda at the end of August, then on to Bori in South Sudan. A group of

Cal Bombay Ministries

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