Subject: A wonderful true story to build our faith!
Once they were "dead"—Now they're Alive; God's Miracle for a Congo Refugee and His Family
Aimee Herd (Feb 18, 2014)
"Looking back and seeing what happened, the only thing I can say is this is God's doing."
 CBN News shares an inspiring story of a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, whose home and village was raided in 2002. (Photo via CBN News)
Nene Rwenyaguza, his wife Francine and their three young children were awakened with gunfire. Telling his wife to take the children and run for safety (because the men were usually targeted first) he told her, "It's only God who can save us now…"
Nene ran in the opposite direction of his wife, hoping the Hutu attackers would follow him and spare his family, but when he returned the next morning, the houses were burned to the ground and he was told his wife and children were dead.
Grieving his family he journeyed to Kenya, relying on his faith.
 Nene had grabbed his Bible during the escape, and later on he discovered there was a picture in it of his beloved wife. (Photo via CBN News)
According to the CBN report, when he began to have feelings of doubt and despair, he "felt a Voice saying look at the life of Job," Nene explained. "So I realized what I was going through was not even difficult."
After several years attending a Bible college in Nairobi, Nene received word he had been approved to move to the United States "as a permanent refugee," said the report.
Nene had pledged not to remarry unless he knew for sure that Francine was dead, according to the CBN article.
And he found a job as a custodian during the day, while pastoring other refugees in an African worship service at a Baptist church in Columbia, Missouri.
It was a year after he had come to the US that Nene reportedly received a call from an international agency.
 Unbelievably, they told him that his wife, and all three of his children were alive and well, and living in Kenya. And in 2013, Nene was finally reunited with them. (Photo via CBN News)
"It was like a dream," Nene told CBN News. "It was overwhelming. I cried once I saw them coming through the doors there at the airport."
Nene added, "It was like another wedding we have gone through. We have been wedded: my wife and our children."
Nene's home is now full with their original three children, an orphan that Francine had taken in after the raid, and they are expecting a new baby this spring, whom they plan to name "Israel."
"This is a baby of joy," said Francine of the new addition.
Read the full CBN report here. |
