Omot Family Adventures

AIM  Africa Inland Mission.  We are a part of this sending agency. They have brought us so much joy, wisdom, and direction as we've worked through this process of moving our little family to East Africa. The process has been and is long. It has been tedious. It has been hard work. It has also been filled with joy and peace.  Our journey to Africa started long ago, we didn't understand that the process of prayer and readying our hearts would take so long, but man, are we grateful for the time. Prior to Friday and I knowing each other, our hearts were both already intertwined in prayer for different people groups in East Africa. We were learning, growing, and praying in our understanding of "Missions" and how we individually fit into that picture.  (Peace and Reconciliation Training in Gog village in Ethiopia) I was pursuing Teaching English As a Second Language degree, traveling in the summers, teaching in a small town of many languages,  and exploring and prayin...

     March 3rd, 1989 in Renk, present day South Sudan a young man was born on a Friday. His parents named him Friday. He grew up in the heat and with the scorpions. The firstborn son of Jay and Elizabeth, from the beautiful ethnic group called the Anyua or Anuak. His ethnic group was one of the first Nilotic groups to become Christian. Missionaries went in the 1960's to teach and train. He spoke only Arabic though and grew up in a town with one road through it.       This road eventually led his family to seek shelter from fighting and war in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. He travelled as a 6 year old, walking the three day journey on foot, while his new younger brother was carried. They travelled at night and slept in the day. His 6 year old body was tired and weary, on the look-out for soldiers and dangers of the road. They were eventually found by soldiers, the good ones. The ones who would help lead them to a small Anuak village, where he embarked on ...