“I have in the recent past had a zeal for God’s word and started doing CBR (Continuous Bible Reading) and I must say the journey has been full of God’s presence.
During this Pandemic, there has been a lot of free time on my hands and I was just asking and praying that God brings something exciting, worthwhile and of course one that would bring glory and honor to God.
PTC is God sent, not only have I been able to understand much more of what I study in my Bible, but also grown in every aspect.
Of course, like Paul puts it, “God facilitates the Growth”.
One of the aspects is on how I view the series of outcomes in the Bible and how they all blend with the typology of Jesus at the end of it all. Indeed, Jesus Christ is the pivot and anchor of the fulfillment of God’s promises in our lives.
I believe that the knowledge I have acquired will help more in ministering to my fellow youth with deep understanding of the word and prowess.
I thank God for PTC and the entire fraternity for bringing this to me/us. It’s really a life changer. Blessings.’’
Luyanda Zulu
Rejection – I was abandoned at birth. So, I’ve always felt unloved, unworthy and this all led to me trying to fit in for I struggled to be accepted socially. How I dealt with this the current church (Christ Amplified Church) I joined had a real positive impact in helping me to deal with this pain and hurt. They showed me love before they introduced me to this loving God. I then realised that God accepts me and that He loves me before I even loved Him.
Low Self-Esteem – I was verbally and emotionally abused a lot by my guardian and even my school peers .I was very skinny and due to that I would get called funny names such as e.g., matchsticks that effected how I would looked and view myself. It was hard to deal with this even though you train yourself to try and forget it still somehow reminds you especially the pain attached to it. The friends at my church encouraged me and reminded me how God view me as that I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Expectation – I hope to leave this Foxfire program with full understanding who I am and my calling in the kingdom of God. To acquire leadership skills. To share the good news and keep the banner of evangelism high.
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Testimony from Rwandan prison.
The 6th of April 1994 was a fateful day in the history of Rwanda, to be remembered as the day that the genocide began. In the devastating 100 days that followed, an estimated 800 000 Rwandans were killed. Most of those killed belonged to the ethnic minority group, the Tutsi’s.
Today, Karuanda prison in the Huye district of Rwanda is home to many genocide perpetrators. During the Huye mission, Evangelist Albert Mabasi, AE Rwanda Mission Director, went to this prison to follow up with some inmates who had responded to the Gospel earlier in the week. Himself a genocide survivor, Albert was shaken by the experience:
“I am a genocidal survivor, and for sure it is my first time going in there… I immediately think of my family that I lost during the genocide against the Tutsi’s in 1994. I was so scared standing in front of them, imagining if they all wanted to tear me to pieces! But within that scary mood, I felt that compassion that Jesus had when he saw weary people, and the Holy Spirit told me to love them like Jesus. I took a breath and felt the spirit of love in me towards them, because they also needed the Gospel to set them free even though they were enclosed in prison. I thought of the scripture found in Matthew.9:36. ‘but when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd’. Therefore, I started preaching to them freely with much compassion but surely it was not easy.”
At AE, we are so grateful that Christ died to save sinners, and we are humbled by the willingness of evangelists like Albert to carry His love into the most difficult of places. Praise be to God that He “uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere” (2 Corinthians 2:14).
