Thursday, 11 February 2010

Prayer Request

I wanted to ask you all to pray for a young man in one of my CRE classes. He's 16 years old (in Kenyan Form 2), and I noticed him right from the start of the term because of his willingness to answer questions, ability to think things through -- and his obvious knowledge of the Scriptures when he does answer. Some of the kids are quite shy about answering, and some don't seem to have much Bible knowledge, but this boy stood out to me. I was actually thinking that maybe he was a pastor's kid or that at least he had grown up in a sound Christian family!
I got a chance to talk to him a couple of days ago and was really surprised when he told me that he had been raised as a Muslim until he was 10 yrs old. His father is Muslim, and his mother Christian (nominally at least); his parents divorced when he was 10 and his mother has taken him to a Pentecostal church since that. When I asked him how he knew so much about the Bible, he said he's read it several times. I then asked him if he knew that there was a difference between converting to Christianity nominally and converting in your heart. He said, yes, he knows the difference but he hasn't "done it yet". He said hopefully he will be saved soon. I talked to him a little more before some other kids came in. Please pray for him! Pray that I'll get another opportunity to talk to him soon, and that most of all, the Word of God that he has obviously been reading will pierce his heart and draw him to Christ.

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