As the waters rose, so did her prayers
When the floodwaters came, they destroyed Agot’s crops and her hope—but God did not leave her to drown.
Hopelessly clinging to her young children, rain pulsed fiercely against the roof of their small shelter.
Agot desperately cried out to God, begging that He wouldn’t take away her crops too.Â
When she crawled across the cracked earth outside her shelter, Agot Garang wept. Her body, weary from a lifetime of struggle, had little strength left to fight. Any hope she had was swept away when her farm, her future, drowned beneath the rising floodwaters.
Agot is just 34, but her eyes speak of decades of hardship. She lives with a disability that makes walking nearly impossible, let alone caring for her 5 children alone. In her town of Aweil, South Sudan, where inflation and hunger lurk behind every corner, her only option was to beg—for food, coins, anything that could keep her children alive.
Despite this, Agot found the strength to keep trying. With the handful of seeds she could get her hands on, she and her children planted a farm in hopes of anything to eat. This patch of earth offered her a flicker of hope—until the rains came.
“How I longed that the floods could spare the farms of the helpless individuals like me,” Agot mourned. “This hunger and flooding situation made me desperate and hopeless.”
It seemed as though any strength or hope she had left had vanished entirely. She had nowhere left to go.
But God saw her.
When her neighbours found her weeping beside the washed-out fields, they embodied the Good Samaritan and didn’t turn away. Though they had little to give themselves, they connected Agot to a food security program at their local church run by Tearfund.
Through the generosity of donors like you, Agot received enough food supplies and farming support to feed her children and start again. This wasn’t just a handout; it was hope. Dignity. A chance to rebuild. She was given renewed strength and a much brighter, fuller future.
This is the Gospel at work. Jesus came not just to save us (John 3:16) but to bind up the brokenhearted and proclaim good news to the poor (Isaiah 61:1). Through your giving, Agot has seen His love made real, tangible. She has seen true faith represented not only by belief, but by action.
There are more women like Agot. More farms waiting for their turn to grow. More prayers waiting to be answered.
Will you join us in sharing the love of Jesus through prayer and action with those across the world?