Prison inmates have one advantage over those who are never incarcerated: They've stood before a judge and been found guilty—something that should help them think about what awaits every sinner on his or her journey to stand before God. As he sat for seven years in prison cells in Russia and Moldova, Ion Guznac thought about those things, until he eventually realized that he had, up to that point, spent his entire life in prison.
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When you live on just a few dollars a day—as do most of the world's people—you don't go to the hospital to have a baby. You deliver your children at home, without a doctor, but hopefully with the aid of a neighbor who has at least some experience. And you hope there are no complications.
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"I'm sorry, Patrick, but I can't employ you any longer." To a young carpenter's apprentice living with his wife and three children in a dilapidated shack in one of Nairobi's congested slums, those words fell like a boulder on his heart. Patrick's boss explained that he had no choice. Thieves had broken into his business, stealing all his tools and lumber, as well as his entire inventory of windows, doors and furniture. Unwittingly, they also stole Patrick's job, which was providing just barely enough to feed his family and pay the rent on their little shack.
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"In this region of India, as many as 10,000 Muslims have departed from Islam and converted to Christianity. So, Shaheem, we want you to thoroughly study the Bible so that you can persuade as many as you can to return to Islam."
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The plea was urgent: a woman in a distant village was sick and was requesting prayer from the man whom God heard. James Levi quickly followed the messengers into the night, not knowing he was being set up for an ambush. Hiding in the darkness along his route, an angry mob of militant Hindus waited to stone him to death.
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Belly Otienio pedaled his bicycle nine long miles with the weight of a passenger riding on the back, yet he was full of joy. There had been a time when he had no bicycle. Worse, there had been a time when he was unable to even walk. But now he was serving the God who had worked miracles for him. His heart pounded with thankfulness.
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It was an ironic turn of events. The very people who had forbidden Christians to draw water from their well, forcing them to walk for miles to gather water at a mountain stream, now found their "Hindu-only" well had gone dry. The Christians, however, now had their own well, provided by Heaven's Family. Would the believers in Budamaha village treat their persecutors as their persecutors had treated them?
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"How were you healed so quickly?" a friend asked 11-year-old Lois when she returned to school after being sick. Lois boldly replied, "My God not only saved my soul, but if we believe in Him, we can be healed from our sicknesses too!" Lois' courageous witness has piqued the curiosity of many of her classmates, and they are now showing interest in learning more about Jesus.
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Jairus Wanyama could not read this sentence. That's because he attended a public school in Kenya where the student-teacher ratio is 100 to 1. Although Kenya provides all of its children with free primary education, the government can't afford the number of teachers that are actually needed. Consequently, many students like Jairus are lost in the crowd and left behind.
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