My Life Before Christ – I was always afraid at night when it was time to go to bed. For all I knew I would not wake up the next morning and I would be dead. I feared this everytime I went to bed and I just couldnt sleep. Not only was I afraid of death but I had no idea who Jesus was and what it meant to be a Christian. I mean sure I went to church everydad Sunday with my parents but I just went to be with my friends not to worship the Lord and be intimate with him. Read the rest of this entry »
Background information
“My name is Sadrak Nawipa; I was born in a little village called Paniai which is interior High land of West Papua. I am 23 years old. I am also one of the 43 West Papuan who came across the ocean by a traditional boat by earlier, back in 2006. I and my friends were targeted by Indonesia Military.
We were involving in University Student Human Right Activists who protest to the Government for its false Conducts that have been applying on and on in West Papua up to now, such as, Human right abuses, intimidation, exploitation, religious and racial discrimination, illegal log in, and one of the trend case conducting up to now is the Genocide system. This unfortunate system is has been establishing since its Government has integrated with West Papua. With the massive interest towards Natural resources of West Papua with the plot that destroy West Papuan which are Christian Communities in West Papua and make a the Land of Muslim which is the term known as “Islamizes”. Read the rest of this entry »
What you’re about to read is an honest and personal account of a series of events that permanently altered the course of my life. It began with my unexpected discovery that I had a bad heart–not the organ that pumps life-giving blood through my veins, but that place deep inside where all my thoughts and motives originate. Here’s how it happened:
I grew up in church and believed in God. I knew I wasn’t perfect but felt in my heart that I was basically a decent person. I would later find that the Bible describes the condition of every heart (yours and mine) as deceitful (Jer 17:9). There I was, living it up (so I thought), unaware that I was deader than a door-nail in my sin (Eph 2:1); utterly lost, yet certain I knew exactly where I was going. You get the picture. My own heart was deceiving me. I wonder–could your heart be deceiving you, too? Read the rest of this entry »
Days of feeling despair were becoming more prevelant. Any happiness or joy I had felt in the past was long gone. Highschool was proving to be more than I could handle and thoughts of suicide were creeping in. I felt hated, despised and rejected. I was threatened in the hallways, stalked and tormented. There was no way out. I begged my parents to take me out or send me to another school but they didn’t understand my desperation. Doctors thought I should be put on antidepressants and one doctor even told me after the first hour of meeting me, “Young lady, you just need to put a smile on your face.” I wanted to reach across the table and put my fist through his face, then maybe I could smile. Read the rest of this entry »
Looking back upon my life there is so much to be thankful for….the day I was born..what the enemy meant for evil, God turned to good. I was born with Cerebral Palsy. The doctors had to use forceps on my head to complete my delivery into this world.
The force of the forceps caused damage to the back of my head. And the force of my delivery also had broken my back in which my condition was unknown to anyone at the time of my birth. It didn’t become known that there was a problem until my mother noticed that I couldn’t crawl but scooted on my side to get around. And through many hospital tests, consultations in hospitals with many doctors came the diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy. Read the rest of this entry »