Naachor, a girl born in South Sudan in 1959, got polio a year after her birth. Her father, Koko, was one of the first believers in the Pibor area of Southern Sudan, having heard the gospel from Bob and Morrell Swart. Koko took her to the mission hospital and to the hospital at Juba, but there was no treatment for polio. "All I could do was pray," he said. "God must want her this way."
In 1981, Bob and Morrell's son, Jack, with his wife Debbie, went to work in that area under the mission ACROSS. They found Naachor in her early twenties, crippled but one of the best pupils in the literacy class. Moreover, she had become a Christian about a year earlier and was keen to tell others about Jesus. She puts thong-type sandals on her hands, sometimes ties her crippled legs around her neck, and "walks" across the bush country to tell her neighbors how to receive eternal life. A number accepted Christ through her witness, and she taught them to read. She does all the work expected of women in the home except for planting and harvesting the fields and carrying water from the well. She also learned English herself to obtain more access to Christian literature. (Do we ever feel we have a hard time of it in life?)
When going from her village to another village, she places her Bible between her body and her folded up legs, then "goes for a walk."
She says, "Because people prayed for me, I became a Christian. Now I want to pray for the people of my tribe, (the Murles)".
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