Kenya, East Africa, illustrates sudden persecution
John Havener January 30th, 2008
Tonight I received an email from a Kenyan friend and pastor. I met this beautiful man not long ago in Nairobi, in happier times. The collapse of goodwill and respect for others is chillingly illustrated in his brief communication:
“Praise be to God, Hope Pastor you are well and blessed in the Lord.
My family and I are okay, the Lord has taken care of us despite the disaster taking place in our country.
We thank God because in Ngong-the area i live in which is in the rift valley , has continued to have peace when the entire rift valley is in turmoil. God has given us peace and protection and we do not take it forgranted.
Indeed, we have never seen such things before in the history of this country. To imagine that people can just wake up and start killing their fellow brothers and sisters, burn property, rape and do all the kind of evil you can imagine.
The worst of it all was the burning of churches all over the country. Some of the churches in my ministry were burnt down. But we thank God because all the Pastors of these churches and there families managed to escape the wrath of the people in those areas and are now safe.
However we are all praying for Peace and Justice to prevail once more in our nation and that people will respect the alters of God once more.
I request you pastor to please pray with us and give this request to as many of your friends as possible.
Let me end here and may God bless you and your family.
Yours
Pastor David
If we believe this cannot happen in the US, we need to think again (JH)