Source: Operation Mobilization, March 3, 2017
Fomesoa looks like a typical Malagasy man. He is slight in frame with brown eyes, and his black hair is speckled with gray from age. What is not so typical is that at 15 years of age, Fomesoa became a witch doctor.
“I didn’t get it from people,” he explained. “An evil spirit came directly to me and guided me to buy a particular type of wood [to start making charms].”
In early 2016 Fomesoa’s life changed. “In the beginning, there was no one who told me about Jesus, but I just started to not care about my idols. I think that is when Jesus first came into my life,” said Fomesoa.
A few weeks later, he met [an OM mission worker named] Fara, who told him about Jesus and urged him to get rid of his idols and charms. Filled with conviction, Fomesoa lit a fire outside his house and threw the charms in. Looking back, he knows now that his indifference to the charms was God working in his life. “I felt something changing in my life, I felt happy [burning the idols],” Fomesoa said.
“I feel peace in my life now,” said Fomesoa with a smile.
» Read full story, and also read Exponential Potential, in which an OM writer describes a multi-agency partnership to mobilize missionaries from the Arabian Peninsula to go to some of the world’s least reached peoples.
» See also Nursing Schools Fight off Witch Doctors in Uganda (Mission Network News).