Constantly Opposed by Voodooist Family

Two young Christians persist in their faith despite opposition from their family. Marie, 18, and Rosaline, 17, are cousins in a voodooist family. The girls had never heard the gospel until a Christian woman who sold soap started coming to their home, and they placed their trust in Christ and started attending church. This angered their family, who rejected them and started cursing them in the middle of the night. As they cursed, the girls would get up and pray. Then the family stopped giving them food. “We read the Bible and look for verses to encourage us. God exists, and his kindness never ends,” said Marie. “The same way he repaired the life of Job, he will give us solutions to our problems.” Rosaline asked for prayer that they would have faith like Abraham when he went to sacrifice Isaac: “I want God to give me such faith so that whenever I face any problem or difficult situation, my faith will not shake.”

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