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Miss S
James From Suicide
to Salvation
By Eric Curtis
She had pills in her pocket and a rope in
her house when James, one of the men who
faithfully attends our Bible Study in Phokera,
Malawi, was passing out tracts and came to
Miss S’s house. She was planning to commit
suicide, but he convinced her to come to the
Bible Study instead.

Due to sickness my wife, Jessica, and the
children were staying home. As I headed out
the door, I turned around and said, “Pray for us!
I am finishing up this set of Bible lessons, and
the lesson today deals strongly with salvation.

Pray that those who need it are there!” Little
did we know what God would do!
Pastor Nelson and I loaded things into the car
and prepared to go, but the car would not start.

After fiddling with the car, we still could not get
it to start! We prayed about it, and I told Pastor
Nelson to try one more time. Immediately, the
car started! Praise the Lord!
During the entire lesson, Miss S listened intently.

When I concluded
the message, she
immediately came
up and said that she
needed to be saved
today. She was only
29, but her lifestyle
made her look much
older. As we sat and
talked with her, tears
poured down her
8 face. She was broken and began to share about
her past. She had not only been involved in
prostitution and human trafficking but also
she was heavily involved in satanism, including
human sacrifices! She was now covered in
sores because the satanic group she was with
threw some type of water mixture on her when
she refused to sacrifice her 14-year-old son. As
she finished sharing her story, she said that she
did not feel like God could save her because of
how wickedly she had lived. What a blessing
when she bowed her head and trusted Christ
as her Savior!
The next week when we came for the Bible
Study, she was walking out to greet us with a
huge smile on her face. Her entire disposition
was different. She cheerfully sang the hymns
and fellowshipped after the Bible Study. She
asked us for a pack of tracts so she could pass
them out at the market and begged us to come
to her part of the village.

At her request, we have recently started
evangelizing in her area. During one of those
times, a few of the ladies from our church went
soul winning with her. They said that a few
houses turned them away because she was with
them, but many still listened. Still others have
said that they can see she is a changed person.

Miss S continues to faithfully come to Bible
Studies as often as she can. Because she has
AIDS and other sicknesses related to how she
has lived her life, she is frequently sick. We do
not know how many years the Lord will give
her, but we are sure she will be a great witness
as she shares what great things the Lord has
done for her! W
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