{"id":37867,"date":"2023-10-10T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opendoors.org.za\/?p=37867"},"modified":"2024-12-02T18:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:43:18","slug":"how-much-is-a-bible-worth-in-cameroon-slegs-in-engels-beskikbaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opendoors.org.za\/afr\/how-much-is-a-bible-worth-in-cameroon-slegs-in-engels-beskikbaar\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is a Bible worth in Cameroon? (slegs in Engels beskikbaar)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our partners in\u00a0Cameroon<\/a>\u00a0shared this beautiful story about a mother of six and her Bible. When we met her, she was living in a camp for internally displaced persons. Her village in Tourou had been attacked by extremist group Boko Haram and they had set fire to everything: her home, the family\u2019s fields \u2013 and her cherished Bible.<\/p>\n

Of all the earthly losses, her Bible was the most devastating. Because where 32-year-old Rukayyatu lives in the country\u2019s Far North region, attacks against Christians are so violent and frequent that some families leave their homes at night to sleep in the forest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m in trouble and feel discouraged, I hold my Bible to my chest, and I have peace,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>she says. Rukayyatu understands the power of God\u2019s Word in her life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe Word of God is the source of my hope and strength,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>she says.\u00a0\u201cBoko Haram took my happiness away when they burnt my Bible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Praise God, our field partners were able to bring our sister a new Bible and other living essentials. They had no idea she\u2019d spent the last year praying for a new Bible. But when they placed it in her hands, Rukayyatu\u2019s wide smile said it all.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is more precious than the Bible among all that we have received. Therefore, I thank you for this love you have shown,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said as she hugged her new Bible to her chest.\u00a0\u201cI know in the Bible God tells us that His Word is Himself,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Rukayyatu says.\u00a0\u201cIt has been hard for me to live without my Bible. The past year without a Bible has been empty; now I\u2019m filled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Before the attack, Rukayyatu and her husband were subsistence farmers, living off crops their land produced. Now in her place of refuge, Rukayyatu has no farmland to till. Her husband has since moved to the south to work, trying to provide for the family. Every month, he sends Rukayyatu money to pay rent and meet some basic needs. Occasionally, Rukayyatu helps others work on their farms to earn some more money for her family as well.<\/p>\n

For Rukayyatu, she has found all she lost because the Bible is God\u2019s Word and God has everything, she says.\u00a0\u201cNow everything that happened to me since is out of my mind from now on. But what I implore from you now is help in prayer in Jesus\u2019 name. Amen!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pray with Rukayyatu and Christians in north Cameroon:<\/p>\n