Fusion

(Left to right) Joe Mynatt, Anna Robinson, Caroline Laboe, Kaley Cribbs and Isaiah Robbins have an impromptu worship time during their first week in southern Sudan. They are there with through Fusion, a missions-training program based out of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and College in Kansas City, Missouri.

Fusion leaders Caroline Laboe and Andrew Huesin check out the food supplies that will be available to the team during their five months in southern Sudan.

Fusion student Isaiah Robbins carries a bag of corn meal during a food distribution in Akot, southern Sudan.

Matthew Espeland rides in the bed of a truck on his way to church in Mayom, southern Sudan.

A young boy watches Anna Robinson (center) with curiosity during a church service in Mayom, southern Sudan.

Jennifer Garrison laughs with a new friend during a church service in Mayom, southern Sudan.

A young Dinka boy investigates as Fusion leader Andrew Huesing journals during his morning devotion at cattle camp in southern Sudan.

Matthew Espeland, dressed in his “mini man-dress” (the traditional attire of Dinka cattle keepers), visits with boys at a cattle camp in southern Sudan.

A young Dinka boy admires Brad Gammon’s new outfit–a “mini man-dress,” the traditional clothing of the cattle keepers.

A young Dinka boy examines Joe Mynatt’s beard at cattle camp.

Joe Mynatt plays slaps with a young boy at cattle camp.

Joe Mynatt teaches a young boy at cattle camp how to do pushups.

Jennifer Garrison teaches Dinka women at a Baptist church how to make sanitary cloths.

Brad Gammon examines a Bible passage with a group of cattle keepers in southern Sudan. He is wearing a “mini man-dress,” the traditional attire of the cattle keepers.

Wearing a “mini man-dress” (the traditional attire of the Dinka), Brad Gammon walks hand-in-hand with a cattle keeper at cattle camp in southern Sudan. In many African cultures, males hold hands as a sign of friendship.