SUDAN: One of the Best Times

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🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Pastor Hassan Abduraheem Taour helped train Sudanese pastors to be ready for persecution. He didn’t know that he was also preparing himself for the day he’d be arrested in Sudan, charged with aiding espionage alongside VOM’s Africa regional director, Petr Jasek, and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

There were difficult days in prison, yet Pastor Hassan experienced the joy of the Lord—joy so powerful it brought tears to his eyes. It is because of that joy, and because of the ministry God gave him in prison, that Pastor Hassan looks back on those long months as “one of the best times of my life.”

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0:00.0	When Pastor Hassan was imprisoned for his faith in Sudan, you might expect him to constantly be thinking about how to get out.
0:09.0	But Pastor Hassan decided when he was free, he would go back to prison and tell people about Jesus.
0:17.0	And that's what I decided, when I was the prison that, when God released me, I was involved in prison ministry because there is hunger in the prison
0:29.0	for the people that really they won't Christ. Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact he told
0:37.8	his disciples that the world would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among
0:42.3	wolves.
0:43.0	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles,
0:46.0	and they're still coming true today
0:48.0	in the lives of his followers around the world.
0:50.0	Join host Todd Nettleton
0:52.0	as we hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help.
0:55.0	Right now on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network.
0:58.0	Welcome again to the Voice of the Martyrs Radio.
1:01.0	My name is Todd Nettleton and we have an exciting privilege for you this week on
1:05.3	Voice of the Martyrs radio. If you've listened for a long period of time
1:08.9	you've heard the story of Peter Yossack, our VOM worker who was imprisoned in Sudan. Today we're going to hear a different
1:17.1	side of that story. We have in the studio with us, Pastor Hassan Tower. He was one of the Sudanese pastors imprisoned
1:26.4	alongside of Peter. Pastor Hassan, welcome to the Voice of the Martyrs
1:31.4	Radio. Thank you.
1:33.0	It is their privilege.
1:35.0	I know after South Sudan became an independent country,
1:40.0	Sudan or sometimes we call it Northern Sudan,
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