Hotel dinner with a released pastor
A Release International was getting ready to meet a friend who was recently released from a Sudanese pastor- nervous- had his friend changed after spending 14 months in a Sudanese jail?
Petr (the friend) was the same as before- his only difference was that he loved Christ more!
In jail Petr was waterboarded by IS members and also put in solitary confinement, but having been a pastor during Communist USSR times he was more than ready for the persecution.
Petr two years before being sent to jail had a dream in which he saw a cell door and was shut inside, people at his church realised he was disturbed by it but in jail, he realised- in the Sudanese jail that was the exact same door as his dream!
Despite his traumatic time in jail, in the prison he always went to sleep at 9- it turns out the pastor of his Czech Church got the congregation to pray for him everyday at 8 for peaceful sleep, which would've been 9 in Sudan!
Petr recalled the time when he was sent to jail by police just as he got his boarding pass back to the Czech Republic and he recalls the time the jail guard told him he was to be released- as he was reading the Psalms!
Your prayers make a difference!
Source:
"When faith is forbidden" by Release International
Petr (the friend) was the same as before- his only difference was that he loved Christ more!
In jail Petr was waterboarded by IS members and also put in solitary confinement, but having been a pastor during Communist USSR times he was more than ready for the persecution.
Petr two years before being sent to jail had a dream in which he saw a cell door and was shut inside, people at his church realised he was disturbed by it but in jail, he realised- in the Sudanese jail that was the exact same door as his dream!
Despite his traumatic time in jail, in the prison he always went to sleep at 9- it turns out the pastor of his Czech Church got the congregation to pray for him everyday at 8 for peaceful sleep, which would've been 9 in Sudan!
Petr recalled the time when he was sent to jail by police just as he got his boarding pass back to the Czech Republic and he recalls the time the jail guard told him he was to be released- as he was reading the Psalms!
Your prayers make a difference!
Source:
"When faith is forbidden" by Release International
