Summary: Pastor Hassan Abduraheem Taour trained Sudanese pastors to be ready for persecution. He didn’t know he was also preparing himself for the day he’d be arrested in Sudan, charged alongside VOM’s Africa director, Petr Jasek, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. In prison, Pastor Hassan experienced the joy of the Lord—joy so powerful it brought tears to his eyes. Because of that joy, and because of the ministry God gave him in prison, he looks back on those long months as “one of the best times of my
