In February 2026, our team traveled to Pibor in South Sudan to meet with church leadership, visit the schools and health facilities Boma supports, and evaluate plans for the new maternity clinic. Here is the trip in photos.
Arrival & Welcome
Our team arrived in Pibor!Church leaders welcome our team.Meeting with H.E. Gola Boyni Gola, Chief Administrator of GPAA
Worship at Pibor Presbyterian Church
People gathered for talking Bibles, trauma teaching, and learning about Genesis 1.
The Schools
This is a preschool class in a Kondako primary school.Class 1 (i.e., a younger level in primary school) students who gather together for school. While there is gratefulness for the building structure, we notice that they don’t have desks, tables or chairs.Kondoko primary school that Boma supports! Such attentive and well-behaved students!What a blessing to be able to visit a school that Boma supports!
Health & the Maternity Clinic
Victoria is a registered nurse who runs the clinic in Pibor.Midwife Chaalit Orozu with supplies for the Midwife Clinic donated by Samaritan’s Purse.
Many thanks to World Medical Mission of Samaritan’s Purse for the donation of supplies for the maternity clinic!
From right: Dr Lotila Gain, clinical officer Matthew Jousef, midwife Chaalit Orozu, Pibor Presbytery moderator Rev James Zeelu, Frank Dimmock
Community & Leaders
This is a second-generation Chief, meaning that his father was also a chief. (A chief is similar to a mayor.)Meeting with representatives from three congregations at the SALT compound to discuss their needs and priorities.SALT compound abandoned about 10 years ago because of insecurity.
Water
Women collecting their daily water.The water is in tanks on this tower. There is a solar-powered pump to pull water out of the ground.
Across the River — the Old Mission
Across the Pibor with the Mayor.Trip to the visit the other side of the river and the old mission home.This is an old mission home that was abandoned when the missionaries were kicked out by the Islamic government in the 1960s.Old mission hospital built around 1952. Missionaries were forced to leave in 1956.
