Church Leaders Cleanses Land While Jan Ransom Prays For Mercy on the British



ECS Church Leaders and Flame International Team praying
for forgiveness of sins committed by South Sudanese, their
fore ancestors and the sins committed by the British Army

By: Lokuri Henry
Leaders of the Episcopal Church of Sudan and South Sudan (ECS) in Eastern Equatoria State together with the team of Flame International from United Kingdom (UK) have performed the prayer for cleansing of the land of South Sudan that has been cursed as  a result of; bloodshed, witchcraft and idol worshipping, breaking of the covenant and sexual immorality.

Jan Ransom, the Director of Flame International, a Christian Organization that is working for; healing, forgiveness and reconciliation in post conflict zones around the world said that God can heal the land when the church leaders and the leaders of the area take responsibility for what has happened on the land and when they repent of the sins and forgive those who have hurt them. 

On Saturday the 21^st of February 2015, the cleansing activity for the land of Eastern Equatoria was done in the Church Compound of the ECS in Torit. 

Hymns were sung, prayer was said for the forgiveness of sins committed by fore ancestors in South Sudan and those in the British Military and the activity was finalized by the burial of the scripture in the land.

Bernard Oringa, the Bishop of the ECS Church in Eastern Equatoria led the prayer in local Arabic, calling on God to forgive the sins committed and to bless and heal the land of Eastern Equatoria and South Sudan.

Retired Lt. Col. Jan Ransom and her team prayed for forgiveness of the British military for having abandoned the people of South Sudan by handing the land to the Arabs, who later abused the land and the owners.

“We stand in the gap on behalf of the British military, we say to you that we’re sorry, we apologize for the sins of the British military when they abused you, when they handed you over to the Arabs, we’re so sorry and we ask for your forgiveness. (Colleague) yes, yes, Lord we confess as British people that we abandoned South Sudan, you gave Britain a mandate to protect the African people in Sudan. But Lord we abandoned them to the Arab government in 1955. We neglected the responsibility you gave us and we confess on behalf of our nation, on behalf of our ancestors. And we say we’re so sorry in Jesus name,...(Jan) And we ask you to have mercy on the British, what we can do is stand in the gap but today, we pray Lord Jesus that the abuse of the African Sudanese by the British will be forgiven and will be broken. The curses that we left, the curses put on you, we ask Jesus that you break, in Jesus name, Amen” Jan and the team confessed.    

Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible were buried under ground, sprinkled with water and oil in the four corners of the Church Compound while one was buried in the middle of the Compound to symbolize the cleansing and healing of the land of Eastern Equatoria State and South Sudan.

Flame International’s overseas mission has reached; Siera Leone Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and South Sudan among other Countries in Africa.

Like in other parts of the world, Flame International has been teaching the ministry of; healing, forgiveness and reconciliation in places like Malakal, Maridi, Rumbek, Juba, Kajo-Keji, Ezo, Nzara and Torit, South Sudan.

Jan Ransom said they had performed the prayer for cleansing of the land in Kajo-Keji in 2010 when the land had remained dry during the rainy season.

While in Ezo, Western Equatoria; the Lord’s Resistance Army LRA were killing people in the area but according to her, the LRA relocated to Congo just after they performed the prayer for cleansing of the land.

Jan says, they came to South Sudan and in particular to Eastern Equatoria to offer the teaching that the lord Jesus Christ has shown them that would bring healing to the land.

And the special message to learn in this teaching is that, God calls all of us God’s people, to walk in purity, but God also has made us to be gate keepers, who are mandated to open the gates to led the King of Glory Jesus Christ into our own lives, into our families and into our churches and also into every area. 

According to Flame International, the gate keepers of God are people like; the church leaders, the politicians, the teachers, the medical people, the journalists, the educationists, the judges and the legal people and the business and fine art people, if they come together in unity, God will use that unity and brings blessing to the land.

This story was first published (broadcast) on the Voice of Eastern Equatoria State 97.5 FM Radio in Torit. The author can be reached on: hlokuri@yahoo.com