My name is Jean. I was born into animism. Our family are hunters. It is my grandfather who is the leader of the hunters. Everyone comes to my grandfather to find powers for hunting. After my grandfather died, my father took this. We have some idols to worship them before going to bush for hunting. Even my father killed a lion with those powers.
My father would go to the bush for one week and people would carry the animals back to the house. They sold the animals and got money, but the money always seemed to disappear, and we don’t even have a good place to sleep. Even getting something to eat was very difficult. There wasn’t enough for food. We took the animals and did sacrifices for hunting.
Life was very difficult for me. I was still young when my father died. And I was to take his place as chief of hunters. I couldn’t. My grandfather died in this way. My father died in this way. I was afraid. I thought it would be the same for me—difficult life, early death.
One day, I heard a man talking about Jesus as savior. He told me about Christ, who can save me. I decided I will follow Jesus. I believed Jesus would save me.
The day I accepted Christ, all my fear passed. In everything I pursued, like business or farming, I could see the fruit in it — the good things coming from it. It’s not by my power, but by the power of God. Everything started changing my life.
Everyone said harm would come to me. One day, I called people to come and help me. We took all my idols and burned them. People told me I would go be punished, but I told them, “No, Jesus is on my side.”
I see people like me who are doing that life of sacrifice. My vision is to tell them about Jesus. I want to accomplish the task in my country. Through disciple-making movement training, it is very easy to touch the nation. Anywhere I’m going, doors are opening to train people to train others.
This is my story of what God has done for me. I will never forget.
Praise God!