Who are Claire & Tohru?
Tohru and Claire Inoue have been our International Missionaries since April 2007. They are currently serving in the Sudan field with SIM. Here are their stories: Claire graduated out of Providence College, south of Winnipeg, and has worked for SIM since 1995 in Ethiopia and Sudan, working with a specific Sudanese tribe. First she worked for 5 1/2 years in the Sudanese refugee camps in Ethiopia and then she came to the Sudan in 2005 when the repatriation of the refugees in Ethiopia was taking place. In the refugee camps she taught English and managed non-formal educational programs. This included working with church youth groups on large drama productions, starting a girls’ education program as well as planning the logistics and organizing a church leaders’ conference. She used her artistic talents to facilitate educational mural painting for schools and a paediatric ward. She also worked with a group of boys who had come from the north to get an education in the south. In April, 2005,
