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An Encounter With the Lord Jesus

I am 38 yrs old and a single mother of two boys in school. I am teaching in a school called Pangani Primary School. 

In the school where I am, the Deputy Headteacher is a Pastor – Paul Dondoh. At least every month he brings a Gospel magazine called “Today’s Challenge”. He has been distributing the paper to all the staff. He would give the bulk to the school secretary and each of us would receive a copy to take home every month. I took not much interest in the paper and even mocked him as I one day told him “You have a lot of money to be wasted in printing this paper and give it free to people”. Pastor Paul is surely a humble man he responded quietly “I am planting a seed and one day it will grow”.

I read quite a number of Kenyan Edition  issues supplied to us. During the recent skirmishes in our country Pastor Dondoh supplied another Edition entitled “PLANTING SEEDS OF HOPE” this paper challenged me. I read of John and Angela and how they were helping the people of Malawi and here I was with 40 pupils in my class who were IDPs (internally displace persons). Most of them orphaned by the ethnical violence. This was a great challenge to me. I had to love them being their class teacher.  

As I read this paper “Today’s Challenge” entitled “Planting seeds of hope” – I badly needed to plant love to the IDP children. I felt convicted that I was a sinner. If Angela and John could love people with AIDS in Malawi why can’t I love my own country men, children who have been orphaned with ethnical violence.

I felt sorrowful in my heart, tears freely flowed down my chubby cheeks as I asked Pastor Paul to pray for me. I recall he led me to confession prayers, “Lord Jesus I am a sinner forgive me…. Write my name in the book of life”.

Since that day I became a new creature, I am a born again Christian thanks to the “Challenge Good Newspaper” and the donors who assist to print it in Kenya.