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Justin and Amy Culp: Reaching the Lopit People of South Sudan

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“After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes…” – Revelation 7:9

From 2010-2011, Justin spent over a year in South Sudan doing evangelism in some very lost areas, and helping disciple some of the local pastors.  While there, he came face to face with the great need for the gospel in many parts of this new country.  After Justin and Amy got married in 2011, they raised support and went back to South Sudan to work on church planting and discipleship among an unreached tribe called Lopit..

Pioneers believes strongly in reaching unreached peoples, church planting movements and a passion for God.  Justin and Amy have been working with Pioneers to start reaching the millions of unreached people in Southern Sudan with the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Their goal is to disciple local believers to be strong leaders in their local churches and to start reaching the rest of their own tribes and fellow Sudanese people.  This happens mostly through relationship and Bible Study as we seek to avoid dependency-building “platforms.”

Recently, Justin and Amy have returned to the USA to face some necessary family issues, and while hoping to return to Africa one day, have been given a new ministry focus.

Encountering the world of Islam is a team focused on equipping and mobilizing God's people in the USA and around the world to reach the largest and often most feared group of unreached people worldwide - Muslims.  While working with the EWI team to help streamline some of their processes and better serve this mission, Justin also gets to focus on preparing his family to one day return to South Sudan.

Would you be willing to pray and/or financially support us as we follow God’s call in this endeavor? 

Use the link on the right side of the page to donate, or support can be sent to:

Pioneers

c/o Justin and Amy Culp - 111886

10123 William Carey Dr.

Orlando, FL  32832

October 27, 2023

   

Ezekiel turned 11 last week.  We had an impromptu birthday party at the community center pool, and had one friend from his class spend the night.

      This is one of those months where I’m scrolling through Google Photos trying to figure out what story to tell. With school underway our family has mostly been in the routines that the school year brings. Ezekiel is in chess club and has decided to be the school’s first Yell Leader. Caleb is taking horseback riding lessons and excelling at school. Amy works at a public behavior school as a para and has daily adventure stories, but is also standing out in the way that she loves the kids. Justin is visiting churches, communicating with more churches about potential visits, and making new strides with Salesforce programming and architecture. 

            Amy has had some pretty incredible encounters lately with Muslim women at work and in her other day to day errands. She has been communicating and building friendships with a few other moms. We’ve also been praying about some special relationships with kids from our school. One family in particular has some hard circumstances and just happens to have kids in class with both of ours. The Lord has even opened doors with that family in the way He brought those children to our community group’s Angel Tree kids. 

            On the nerdy side, Justin has basically finished the debugging process on a complicated API pull for importing gift data into our Salesforce org. He also managed to design some useful screen flows that will help streamline the day to day communication tasks that our team needs to accomplish. Now he is working on figuring out how to clean up some data from 2700 contacts and get all of the useful information into the same place (the right record fields) so that the screen flow project will actually work. He has also been providing some technical support for remote teammates who have had some challenges. Once the reports and activity task records are cleaned up and actually useful, this project that has been in the making for quite some time will be ready to launch. 

Ezekiel's 11th birthday party with a homemade cake.

            Ezekiel had his 11th birthday. We are moving in a few weeks to a new place that will save us 2-3 hours a day in driving time, and make life a lot less hectic because of that. We are packing for that move, managing homework and field trips and practices and the day to day American family busyness stuff. Justin also does occasional side jobs for people who need handyman help to make up some of what we lack in the support-raising department. 

            Thank you for praying, writing, giving and keeping up. Being in support-based ministry often feels boring, but is also necessary and the Lord has been working greatly in our family, church, school and daily relationships. If you want a visit from Justin at your church, please reach out!