Dear Brethren in Christ,
I am very happy to write you this letter as I pray and hope you
willanswer my writing for the holy bibles for myself and the
christianlepers that are with me." I want to brief you little about
myself. Sir i was born to the familyof a chief priest - a well known
idol worshipping family, and marriedto the daughter of another such
family. we had four children, andlived their idol worshipping life
happily. Then everythingchanged.
My wife came back from the city where he had gone to buygoats for
our annual festival. She came back to inform me of hisencounter with
a man of GOD that told him about Jesus Christ and itwas the first
time she was hearing of that name. she also told me theman of GOD
said we should accept Jesus Christ as our only lord andpersonal
saviour. We never really understand what it means to accept Jesus
Christ asour only lord and personal saviour until two months later,
April25,when my Wife encountered this man of GOD again and he
accompany myWife back to the village, that he now taught us what it
means to acceptChrist as our lord and saviour. On the 10th of May,
1994, we were baptized and started our home fellowship.
It was then that the troublestarted. The villagers including my
Wife's dad abducted my Wife and sacrificed herto their gods, and that
same night they came to our house in the middleof the night and set
our house ablaze, and I lost my 2 sons and daughterto the inferno. It
was only a miracle that I managed to escape that night with myonly
surviving son, but by the time the villagers got to know aboutwhy we
were running from our village, they too planned to use us
forrituals, and they believed we are accursed for believing in
JesusChrist. But God had a purpose for me in life, and made one of
theelders in the village to have compassion on us and let us
escapebefore the day we were to be used as sacrifices to their gods.
We eventually settled in O. Leprosy Centre where we were receivedwith
open arms. We were free from all the disturbance as the lepersare
rejected people in our society back here. I was afraid to preachthe
gospel again as I was afraid of death. But on October 27, 1999,God
spoke to me in my dream that I should not be afraid of death,
fordeath is the gateway to eternity in Heaven for we
thebelievers...that HE preserved me and allowed all those
persecutionsto happen to me so I can serve him.... by the next day
when I woke up I realise for the 4 years I have been with the
orphans, none of them haveever heard of the gospel, and none of them
knew anything about our Lordand Saviour Jesus Christ. So I started to
preach the gospel of Jesus tothem. Initially they refuse to listen
as they believed nobody loves or careabout them and that Jesus I
talk about is no different. But aftermuch preaching and praying for
six months, I was able to convert 10 of them for Jesus Christ.
Today I am happy to say we are 163 innumber, and we now have a
church that is called Ugbelilighe Leper Community Bible Church We
have been serving and doing the work of GODdiligently even with all
the hardship and untold neglect from the membersof the larger
society. We don't even have a church building, and we useunder trees
for our worship and services, but our major problem is theholy bible
for 20 Elders in the Church and they are old and they can onlyread
the GIANT PRINT BIBLES.Please do send us the Giant Print Bibles assoon
as possible so that Souls will have God's Word to study. May God
Bless you For the work you do for the cause of the kingdom In Christ.
Evangelist Baroody Najwa Raja
Ugbelilighe Leper Community Bible Church
19E Ugbelilighe Avenue GOP-Uje 8950 , Benin City, Edo State , Nigeria.
I am very happy to write you this letter as I pray and hope you
willanswer my writing for the holy bibles for myself and the
christianlepers that are with me." I want to brief you little about
myself. Sir i was born to the familyof a chief priest - a well known
idol worshipping family, and marriedto the daughter of another such
family. we had four children, andlived their idol worshipping life
happily. Then everythingchanged.
My wife came back from the city where he had gone to buygoats for
our annual festival. She came back to inform me of hisencounter with
a man of GOD that told him about Jesus Christ and itwas the first
time she was hearing of that name. she also told me theman of GOD
said we should accept Jesus Christ as our only lord andpersonal
saviour. We never really understand what it means to accept Jesus
Christ asour only lord and personal saviour until two months later,
April25,when my Wife encountered this man of GOD again and he
accompany myWife back to the village, that he now taught us what it
means to acceptChrist as our lord and saviour. On the 10th of May,
1994, we were baptized and started our home fellowship.
It was then that the troublestarted. The villagers including my
Wife's dad abducted my Wife and sacrificed herto their gods, and that
same night they came to our house in the middleof the night and set
our house ablaze, and I lost my 2 sons and daughterto the inferno. It
was only a miracle that I managed to escape that night with myonly
surviving son, but by the time the villagers got to know aboutwhy we
were running from our village, they too planned to use us
forrituals, and they believed we are accursed for believing in
JesusChrist. But God had a purpose for me in life, and made one of
theelders in the village to have compassion on us and let us
escapebefore the day we were to be used as sacrifices to their gods.
We eventually settled in O. Leprosy Centre where we were receivedwith
open arms. We were free from all the disturbance as the lepersare
rejected people in our society back here. I was afraid to preachthe
gospel again as I was afraid of death. But on October 27, 1999,God
spoke to me in my dream that I should not be afraid of death,
fordeath is the gateway to eternity in Heaven for we
thebelievers...that HE preserved me and allowed all those
persecutionsto happen to me so I can serve him.... by the next day
when I woke up I realise for the 4 years I have been with the
orphans, none of them haveever heard of the gospel, and none of them
knew anything about our Lordand Saviour Jesus Christ. So I started to
preach the gospel of Jesus tothem. Initially they refuse to listen
as they believed nobody loves or careabout them and that Jesus I
talk about is no different. But aftermuch preaching and praying for
six months, I was able to convert 10 of them for Jesus Christ.
Today I am happy to say we are 163 innumber, and we now have a
church that is called Ugbelilighe Leper Community Bible Church We
have been serving and doing the work of GODdiligently even with all
the hardship and untold neglect from the membersof the larger
society. We don't even have a church building, and we useunder trees
for our worship and services, but our major problem is theholy bible
for 20 Elders in the Church and they are old and they can onlyread
the GIANT PRINT BIBLES.Please do send us the Giant Print Bibles assoon
as possible so that Souls will have God's Word to study. May God
Bless you For the work you do for the cause of the kingdom In Christ.
Evangelist Baroody Najwa Raja
Ugbelilighe Leper Community Bible Church
19E Ugbelilighe Avenue GOP-Uje 8950 , Benin City, Edo State , Nigeria.
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