A striking story tells about one remote area in western Sudan. Expatriate missionaries, especially priests, Brothers and Sisters, had labored there for many years with few visible results.
Then expatriate lay missionaries - married and single - came to that area, and soon many Sudanese people become Catholics.
A Sudanese elder explained: "When we saw the priests and Sisters living separately and alone we didn't want to be like them. But when we saw Catholic families - men, women and children - living happily together, we wanted to be like them." In our family oriented African society married, missionary couples with children have a powerful and unique witness and credibility.
