Sitting Around the Table - March 10th

I have had many individual conversations with Christians. Today I was sitting with an Ethiopian and Congolese brother. Frank is from the DRC and works at DayStar University. His desire is to run from a government position in the DRC. His uncle was the speaker of the house years ago but was assassinated. His family had to leave the country.

The Ethiopian brother Oli grew up in a Christian home but converted to Islam. He moved to Saudi Arabia to learn Arabic. His became a very devoted Muslim and got engaged to a Muslim girl to be married. The girl however, came to be possessed by a demon. On one occasion she passed out and started speaking Ethiopian. They took her to a Muslim sheik but he told them that they had to listen to the demon if she wanted to live. There was nothing he could do. At that point Oli knew Islam could not be correct. He thinks he was tormented by demons and he would wake up screaming in the middle of the night. He went back to Ethiopia and attended a church with a woman he had tried to win (and almost did) to Islam. Within two Sundays he was a Christian. He now wants to be a pastor.