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| name         = Sam Childers
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| caption      = Sam Childers arriving to the Book Signing Event of his book “Another Man’s War,” Beverly Hills, CA on May 5, 2009
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== Africa ==

In the summer of 1992, Childers experienced a conversion during a revival at the Assembly of God church. Childers has claimed that was also the same evening that his pastor prophesied that he would go to Africa. At the end of 1998, Childers made his first trip to 
the Sudan. In that first trip and the many that followed, he was exposed to the atrocious acts of the [[Lord’s Resistance Army]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boyerspond.com/chopper.html |title=World Missions New Sudan |publisher=Boyerspond.com |date=2009-06-27 |accessdate=2010-10-08}}</ref>

Over 30,000 children have been abducted by [[Joseph Kony]] and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the region.<ref>http://www.seacoastgrace.org/pdf/Global%20Missions%20Report.pdf</ref> Some relief organizations report as many as 50,000 children have been abducted and 1.7 million people have been displaced. The abducted children are generally forced to be child soldiers or sex slaves until they escape, are rescued or killed. Thousands of children have become orphans as a result of brutal LRA attacks on remote villages in Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda.

Not long after his first trip to the Sudan, Childers and his wife Lynn founded the Angels of East Africa, the Children’s Village in Southern Sudan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.angelsofeastafrica.org/aboutus.html#orphan |title=Angels of East Africa |publisher=Angels of East Africa |date= |accessdate=2010-10-08}}</ref> The Children’s Village currently houses and educates over 300 orphans,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/564719.aspx |title=Missionary Fights for Children of East Africa - Christian World News - CBN(contracted; show full)[[Category:1962 births]]
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