【Story of a Chocolate】
- It is a real story, not a drama
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【1. Baby to Childhood】
- One day, a boy born
- He was poor
- His home is made by wood and metal sheet
- He slept with grandma and parents on a bunk bed
- He has no toy
- He always plays under the sun
- His skin was so dark like a chocolate
- His grandma created a nick name to him
- Called Chocolate
- Because of his skin color,
- His young neighbors called him “Africa Black Charcoal”
- He bully by them and felt upset
- He hated the name and Africa
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【2. Believe in Jesus】
- The boy has grown up day by day
- His aunt bought him and his mother to church
- He believed in Jesus about 8 years old
- He loved to go to church
- Because of playing games, making friends and eating free refreshments
- When he was 10 yearsold, he baptized
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- Even he baptized
- He don't like reading and draw near to God
- In his study, he is poor in English
- He always fails since primary five
- He never dreams for Jesus, think one day he will go to other countries preaching gospel
- He also do not have confident to speak English with others
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【3. Teenager's stage】
- He sometimes goes to play ball with classmates on Sunday
- But he do not go to church, even baptized
- Sometimes, he wake up late
- and do not go to breaking bread meeting
- He only join the games session
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- He sometimes lies with his mother
- He sometimes blamed by elder brother
- Some elder brothers want to stop him to chuch, because he distracted others
- But a brother nourished with great him patience
- He keeps growing in the Church
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【4. Believe in Jesus】
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- Days after days, he graduated
- Jesus touched and moved his heart
- He go to Indonesia, a poor country like Homa Bay, to preach gospel
- and establish the Church there
- Even he don't know their language
- but he tried to love them by body language
- the local brother and sister was happy with him and felt his love and passion
- He has been to Indonesia for three months before he go to work
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【5. Mature】
- After many years, he married and has a family
- His life is abundant and stable
- But the Lord keeps touching his heart and opening his spiritual eyes
- After Covid, he asked his boss to have a leave
- He went to Cambodia with Priscilla to preach gospel
- and help to establish the Church
- Emma followed their footsteps there
- A year later, 2024, Emma been to Homa Bay to ministry
- Priscilla was after Emma to go there
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【6. Believe in Jesus】
- Even the boy like marathon, avocado and mango
- But he never dreams that he will go to Africa
- In a meeting, he heard a revival news started in Kenya
- The Holy Spirit continuous touch and move his heart day by day
- He tried to pray for himself to join the Kenya mission team
- May Lord opens a way for him to go
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【7. Give up or not】
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- He wrote a long letter to his boss to ask for an approval
- He talked with elder brothers and sisters
- Thank you God that he allowed to go
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- Before he go, he considered to cancel the trip
- Because he can only go there for 5 weeks
- But he continued to pray to the Lord
- Finally, he left his wife, parents, resigned the job to Kenya
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- He felt excited like a kid and started his journey to Africa
- Even he got sick and slept for 40 hours
- He tried to go out for the meeting with a mask
- Thank you Lord, he can preach gospel
- Talk about the truth of baptism with a brother
- Help him to baptize at the lake
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- Five weeks past, he loved the Church
- Loved the kids, teens and brothers and sisters there
- Also love chapati, Ugali and samosa...
- To be continued...
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【Conclusions】
- That's all for the story
- do you know who is “He”？
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- Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
- teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
- Matthew 28:19-20 (ESV)
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- Years old Years
- maintains 0ics 加利利山上
- Asego mountain
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