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Threatened by the Sword: National Missionary shows Christ's love in the face of danger

Mariani is a small village in the Kilifi district of Kenya. It is the bush. Small, sparsely populated areas share the landscape with wild animals, wide plains and dense jungle. Most of the people farm for a living. Very few receive any kind of formal education.

Mariani is where Nathaniel and his wife Loice went. Loice was born there, and it was their desire to preach the

 Gospel in her home village.

The weather was bright and sunny, and they decided to start going door to door throughout the area. They shared the Good News of Jesus Christ with each person they met. Through this method, 58 people came to know Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior in a few short hours.

As they continued through the village, they arrived in front of a home with several people standing outside. Loice and Nathaniel walked up and introduced themselves. Loice began to share her testimony.

"You!" a booming voice shouted. "Why are you here? Where are you from?"

Nathaniel and Loice turned around to see a man coming from the house, sword in hand. The sword was a traditional panga blade used for centuries by the tribes in the area.

"We are from Malindi and we have come to tell people about Jesus," replied Nathaniel.

"Well I am a Muslim, and you must leave immediately, or I'm going to have to make you leave," was the answer

 they received.

Nathaniel pulled Loice close and prayed over the Muslim man and those standing around.

"We need to go," he said to the man with the sword, "but you should know that God loves you."

Two days later it was Sunday. As Nathaniel prepared to worship, he was shocked to see the Muslim man who had

 warned him off with a sword, walk into the little mud brick church with his family in tow.

"Hello preacher," he said. "My name is Biyaa. I have had no peace since I chased you from my home. Can you tell me about Jesus?"

Nathaniel shared the Good News of Jesus Christ to Biyaa and his family, and one by one they accepted Him as their Savior that day.

In the letter telling us this testimony, Nathaniel said, "All praise be unto God, for He is worthy."

National Missionary Profile: Nathan Charo

The testimony you just read was one sent to us by Nathaniel Charo, a Reaching Souls National Missionary in Milindi, Kenya.

 He has been a National Missionary with Reaching Souls International since 2002.

He was born into a pagan family, deeply steeped in the traditional tribal religions of the area. He aspired to be a priest in the tribe and yearned to be a leader. A serious accident led him to seek treatment from the local witch doctor, and when the witch doctor could do nothing to help with his medical issues, he realized that it was all a fraud.

In 1989 he was working as a bartender when he was led to the Lord by evangelists doing house to house ministry. He began to seek the Lord earnestly and led his family to Christ. His heart for evangelism led him to start holding open air meetings and witnessing house to house. Eventually he was led to Reaching Souls and applied for assistance.
In 2006, Nathaniel personally led 1,689 people to Jesus Christ.