“If I at least knew that God wants me to rest on the Sabbath, I could have done that! I would have rested on the Sabbath! But I didn’t know! Now I have broken every single one of God’s commandments… It would not even help if I now rest on God’s special day. What am I going to do?” Papa Bakar declared in despair.
Papa Bakar is very caught up in the Bible teaching in your village. He is not a young man anymore and very aware of the weaknesses of his once strong body. He is eager to learn what God wants and attends every afternoon. To us, this is one of God’s miracles, since Papa Bakar is often ornery and very strong headed! He has always resisted change… until now.
He often asks thought provoking question, like: If God made everything perfect, where does the evil spirits come from? He later learned about the beautiful angel and his rebellion against God – we now call him Satan – deceiving other angels that we know call demons. When the story of Isaac’s wife, Rebekah was taught and how she went to God when she was pregnant and wanted answers about the conflict she feels inside her. He said:
“Rebekah went to God for her answers. Can we go to God for our answers? How can we talk with God? How can we hear is Voice when we can’t see Him?” 
Once when the truth was taught about how God is seeking us out, He wants us to be found and to be with Him, Papa Bakar said: “Even a chicken always looks for her chicks and calls to them constantly! That is how God is always calling to us to know where He is!”
Pray that Papa Bakar will find the only One who can save him from the consequence of breaking God’s law.
Photo2: Papa Bakar in 2005 sharing matapwe and mandioka with Waldo (then 3) while taking a break from building our house.