I got to meet some interesting people in the past 24 hours. A few of my team mates and I went to hear an ex-hitman and his wife that was a former prostitute. Their stories were crazy! His name was Ruben and he used to be in a gang when he was younger. He was shot in the head while he and his gang where robing a truck. His friend that was next to him died from multiple wounds, while he was only shot once. People thought he was dead for three months while he was in the hospital. He was put in jail for the robbery and then released. He was shot again in the other side of his head at a gas station by another gang member, and he lived. After years of being in a gang and killing numerous people he was finally going to be convicted for 54 years in prison. Ruben went before the judge and the judge told him that God had a plan for his life and he wasn’t going to convicted him. Needless to say he became a believer after that.
Ruben’s wife Sam grew up in a home with alcoholic siblings and a mother that would not talk about things. She would talk about their problems or anything. Sam’s mother thought the devil was inside her and took her to some kind of which doctor who slit her wrists, ankles, and the back of her neck to release the demon in her. When she was 12 years old she was rape by a sibling of a friend. She had no one to talk to about it at home so she oppressed it deep down inside till she forgot, but she said even though she forgot she knew something was wrong with her. She began doing hard drugs and selling herself to guys and girls for drugs. She got pregnant and had the baby on a stoop but the baby was a still-born, she said she choked the baby with all the drugs she was using while she was pregnant. Sam would keep the drugs and the guns for that gangs in their house. Her siblings became believers and her brother became a pastor. He would come every day to the house she was staying in and call for her at the gate, and every time she would tell him to go away. She took so many drugs that she had wholes in her stomach and couldn’t keep food down, she was dying. No one called her, no one came to see if she was alright, all those people she put in her life didn’t care about her. Her siblings came over one last time to talk to her. They told her their testimonies and how God turned their lives around, but all Sam could think about was that she was a whore and how God couldn’t love her. After her siblings left she got on her knees and prayed, a peace came over her and she went bed. When she woke up the next morning she didn’t want her crack or a cigarette, she was very hungry so she went down stairs and was able to eat and keep down the food. God healed her stomach and her addiction because he had a bigger plan for her life.
Then today my whole team was able to meet Virginia, a 95 year old missionary here in Africa. She was doing missions in Africa before it was popularJ She has been doing mission work for 59 years, she was married for 50 years before her husband past and they had four children. She is so wise and so in love with Jesus. She said during our visit that she want to be so in love with Jesus that when people look at her all they see is Him.
God like to do crazy things to show that He is Lord. Sometimes He’ll use a hitman, sometimes a prostitute, sometime a 95 year old missionary, and sometimes a 22 year old girl from Atlanta, Georgia 😉
