CHRONICLES OF PROCESS 5- WE COULD NOT AFFORD IT

Some few months after our wedding, we were in a supermart and we needed to buy body cream for the family. I had no particular preference but my wife had the one she was using as a single lady. We headed straight to the section that housed what we wanted. When we saw the price, we looked at each other. […]

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CHRONICLES OF PROCESS (3) – HIS WEALTH DID NOT CHANGE HER MIND

She had fallen in love with her classmate in the tertiary institution and her parents would have none of it. Her parents were elites and they keep asking, “Who do you say his parents are?”. The poor boy was the son of a farmer in a small village. Her parents had an alternative for her in a young lawyer. She […]

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CHRONICLES OF PROCESS (2) – SHE CRIED BY THE ROADSIDE.

Because of what they had experienced in other mission postings, they gave away all they had before they moved to the new place where they were now in charge because of the divine promotion they received. At their new base, it was not as expected. They had to start from scratch. They were the ones even taking care of things […]

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CHRONICLES OF PROCESS (1)- EVERYTHING FROM THE PALM TREE

A dear father in the faith and his beloved wife shared a touching experience with us as an intending couple some years back. They got married while the man was a priest in a small village. The wife was already a graduate. Their source of livelihood and income was everything that a palm tree could supply- they made oil, brooms, […]

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LAUGHING THROUGH TOUGH TIMES

Olive was going through one of the tough transitional moments in childhood- teething. She was calm all day. She would rarely smile. I told Irewamiri that I would spend the evening playing with Olive. I had a good teammate in Danielle. We made sounds, danced and made gestures. Olive was forced to laugh hard, play with us and return our […]

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MY BROTHER SAW IT ALL

As I stepped out of the bus that evening, I was beaming with smiles as I began the stroll to our house. I smiled the whole trip because I was reading and replying text messages from my lover who just said Yes to me. A voice calling my name broke into the realm of my excitement and day-dream- it was […]

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CONCLUSIONS IN CONCRETE

My dear teacher shared a story with us once: They were thanking God for the new baby they had and in the midst of the thanksgiving, they were saying to God that it was their last baby. God asked them a simple question: “Did you ask me?” The Lord said to them, “For you will still have another baby and […]

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I WANTED TO COMPARE FIRST

I had a gift of something I had really needed but I felt a prompt to give it to someone who needed it more. However, I was waiting to see whether a new one I was expecting would be a better type so I could choose the better and give out the lesser. The Lord spoke to my heart that […]

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THE BATTLE OF THE PREGNANCY

Irewamiri shared a testimony about how her mind was besieged during the pregnancy of our second baby. It was so bad that images of death would flash at her. She practically fought depression. For months, it was a siege. One of the things the Lord did was to place other images of victory and templates that it was possible to […]

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