Richard Parkins is the executive director of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan. He retired in 2009 as director of Episcopal Migration Ministries, a position he had held for 14 years.

Jennifer Ernst, co-founder of Hope for Humanity, Inc. and coordinator for partnerships for the Episcopal Church of Sudan, and Virginia Suffragan Bishop David Jones, president-elect of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, during the fourth annual AFRECS conference June 4-6 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori celebrates the Eucharist with Diocese of Virginia Bishop Suffragan David Jones on June 19 at Christ Church in Glen Allen, Virginia, on the final day of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan conference. Jones is AFRECS president.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori celebrates the Eucharist with Diocese of Virginia Bishop Suffragan David Jones on June 19 at Christ Church in Glen Allen, Virginia, on the final day of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan conference. Jones is AFRECS president.

The keynote presenter at the 2008 AFRECS Conference was the newly-enthroned Archbishop of Sudan, the Most Reverend Deng Bul, second from right. Pictured with Deng are, left to right, his wife, Mama Deborah Abuk Atem, the Venerable Robert Anton Franken, AFRECS board member, and the Rev. Richard Jones, AFRECS president.

Members of the Chicago Association for the Lost Boys of Sudan (CALBOS) dance at the Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer, Chicago, on June 1 as part of the fourth annual conference of the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan.

Richard Jones of Virginia, president of AFRECS.

Jerry Drino of San Jose, Calif., board member.

Nancy Frank, executive director of AFRECS.