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A typical Dinka village in Southern Sudan, similar to John’s village of Duk Payuel

A young Dinka boy milks a cow near his home in Sudan. With their long horns and slender bodies, cows in this part of the world look very different from the dairy cows many people in North America and Europe are used to seeing.

Here, more than 3,000 lost children arrive from a refugee camp in Ethiopia back to Sudan after walking hundreds of miles without sufficient food or water

A group of Lost Boys gather to listen to caretakers at the Pinyudu camp in February 1989. John is somewhere in the back of the group.

Martha (standing, left) with her friends at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya in 1998

John (second from the right) and his friends drink porridge after school in Kakuma in 1999.

John and Martha walk out of the church after their American wedding ceremony on June 2, 2007.

Martha and John with their children: daughter Agot and son Leek. They welcomed a third child, a daughter named Akur, in May 2010