Sam Childers (born 1963) is a former motorcycle gang member who now dedicates his life and resources to rescue children in the war zone of South Sudan. Childers and his wife Lynn founded and operate Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village Orphanage in Nimule, South Sudan, where they currently have more than 300 children in their care.


Born 1962 Sam Childers was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, the son of Paul Childers, an ironworker and former Marine.[1] Sam had two older brothers, Paul Jr. and George. He also had a sister, Donna, who died of a heart problem before she was a year old. While he was growing up, his parents moved the family from place to place, following construction projects.
In the spring of 1974, shortly before Childers turned twelve, his family moved to Grand Rapids, Minnesota. He was going into seventh grade that Fall, and the two years before he started high school were some of the most influential times of his life. It was in these formative years that he discovered cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol, and heroin, which led to many years of drug addiction, drug dealing, and alcoholism. Sam also developed a love for motorcycles and the lifestyle that often follows an outlaw biker.[2]
[edit]Africa

In the summer of 1992, Childers converted to Christianity at a revival meeting at an Assembly of God church. That same evening Childers' pastor prophesied that he would go to Africa. At the end of 1998, Childers made his first trip to Sudan. In that first trip and the many that followed, he was exposed to the acts of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)[3] which he described as atrocious.
Not long after his first trip to Sudan, Childers and his wife Lynn founded the Angels of East Africa, the Children's Village in Southern Sudan.[4] The Children’s Village currently houses and educates over 300 orphans,[5] with over a thousand children rescued since its inception.[6] The staff at the Children's Village are primarily Sudanese orphans and widows themselves. This is currently the largest orphanage in Southern Sudan and is unique in its approach of leading armed rescue missions directly into LRA territory.
Childers details the events of his life and his experiences in Africa in his book Another Man's War.[7]
In November 2009, Childers appeared on Debra Peppers' television show Outreach Connection in Quincy, Illinois. He revealed that he also rescues children abducted in northern Uganda.[8]
[edit]In popular culture

In 2011, Relativity Media released a biopic about Childers entitled Machine Gun Preacher, which was based on Childers's book Another Man's War. The film was written by Jason Keller and directed by Marc Forster. The cast featured Gerard Butler in the title role, Michelle Monaghan as Childers's wife Lynn, and Michael Shannon as his best friend Donnie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Monaghan

How it all started in Sudan, it takes one man to save lives, he might not be from your own tribe, or race but he can do bigger things than we will ever do

Sam, deng in the middle, and Marco on the far right( if you have ever watched the movie)

The guy try sha, who fit do this?

MAIMED BY WAR
WALTER’S STORY

When he was an infant, Walter was the victim of a brutal and senseless Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) attack. He was travelling in the family car with his parents and his sister, Angela, when the rebels struck.

“There was two soldiers behind, and in-front, and on either side. So they told us to get out of the car and we started running and they shoot us so we fall down” Walter said.

Walter’s parents were killed, Angela was shot through the neck and Walter was shot in the face. The children, wounded and unmoving on the side of the road, were left for dead by the rebels. It was only minutes before word spread and help arrived.

“Reverend Sam [Childers] came with the SPLA (Sudanese People’s Liberation Army) and they took us to Gulu hospital”.

For several months the children were rehabilitated. Angela learnt to walk again but Walter required specialist care. Sam took Walter to America, where surgeons repaired his eye socket and fitted a glass eye.

After the surgery, Walter returned to Sudan and for a short time lived at The Children’s Village in Nimule.
“The Children’s Village was good. You play with many children…playing football, doing many kinds of things…you feed well, drink well. Very nice” Walter said.

It wasn’t long before Walter and Angela moved to the Angels of East Africa mission home in the Ugandan capital of Kampala. Today, Walter is a student at one of the best schools in the city. He is very thankful to Sam Childers for his new life

http://www.machinegunpreacher.org/kids-stories/

May God bless him.He really is doing a good job.

"Wherever we are
Our Mission Is Simple:
We Help,
When No-One Else Will."

I'm inspired.

Waiting to see the atheist viewpoint