My hatred was so atrocious that one day during a Bible distribution at school in his time, I tore the Bible and took its pages to make paper airplanes that I threw in the air. One day, I learned that my mother went to ask for prayer in a church in the square. In my fury I scolded and reprimanded my mother with very unpleasant words and I told her that I was no longer her son, with regret she asked me for forgiveness and offered her sincere apologies. To disrupt Christian services, sometimes I threw stones on the roofs of churches, because for me they are ordinary rooms without God and the Pastors make money on the backs of ignorant faithfuls. In my excess of zeal for Islam, I harassed my Christian friends with arguments with which we had been indoctrinated to convert them to Islam. They were without arguments and without knowledge, unable to defend themselves. Three of them became Muslims through me, and I helped them improve their daily Muslim prayer. How much I regret my follies today. I was a son of hell who wanted to fill hell in ignorance. After my encounter with Jesus Christ, I was able to bring one of them back to the Lord. A few months before my encounter with Jesus Christ, I said, “I bless Allah for making me a Muslim because I don’t know how I can be anything other than a Muslim.” I told myself, “I was born a Muslim and I will die a Muslim.” I always made fun of my Uncle Moussa, who was already a Christian, and I saw how often he was lost. He often went to receive lessons from Pastor Bernadin on the falseness of Islam and the truth of the Gospel. I said I felt sorry for him. But he also said he felt sorry for all Muslims because of what he was discovering day by day about Islam through the teachings he received. One day, my uncle Moussa, who is now a disciple of the Lord through the ministry of Pastor Bernadin, approached me with the gospel. At first, I was very categorical and rejected him several times. For a long time, I refuted his arguments, which he used to prove the falsehood of Islam. Indeed, I had found a network led by a woman devoted to Islam who works for the propagation of Islam. She was on a mission for the International Islamic League. Because of my talent in Islam and my recitation of the Quran, she began by helping me with the paperwork so that I could go and improve myself in the Maghreb. She promised to provide me with transportation, accommodation, and a good job if only I agreed to follow her for the cause of Islam. I began by gradually following their organization’s training courses on radical Islam. So I was getting ready for Nigeria when my uncle Moussa started bothering me with the gospel.

One day I decided to read the Gospel according to Matthew to see; because I have a great passion for reading. That was my encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ. I was struck by the life of the Lord Jesus. A life full of love, purity, gentleness and power. It was a shock and the opposite of the violent life advocated by Islam. At the same time, I was convinced that there is no better life than that of Jesus to please God. I was convicted of sin and my miserable state as a son of perdition. I repented of my sins. I gave up my plan to travel to Nigeria and I received Jesus as Lord and personal Savior of my life. I still had some doubts about the falsehood of Islam. My mind had difficulty accepting that all of this (Islam) was false. How could more than a billion people be wrong with such zeal and devotion? Since my uncle Moussa was already in Pastor Bernadin’s ministry, I decided to enroll in Pastor Bernadin’s school to learn more about Islam through apologetic studies. After a few years of study, I became certain of the falsehood of Islam with all possible supporting evidence, and the doubt was removed. When my family learned that I had left Islam for the Lord, the persecution began. I was called a “family disgrace.” I was threatened by my parents, a meeting was called where I received all kinds of insults and rejections by my father, my other uncles, also tried to dissuade me from the path I took but Glory be to the Lord Jesus Christ, I did not give in because I was sufficiently educated on this satanic sect of Arabs that is Islam and I know in whom I believed. I continued my apologetic studies and I give thanks to God. Today I know how to defend my faith against the enemies of the cross and prove to the world how many times Islam is false. I am currently a missionary of CMCI BENIN in Banikoara, a city in the north of BENIN with a large Muslim population. But the Lord Jesus Christ continues to confirm his word by mass conversions among Muslims in this city. Many are disciples of the Lord in secret because of persecution but others openly display their faith and are supervised in our assembly. Currently in the ministry, we are almost all ex-Muslims regenerated by the Spirit of the Lord and determined to win the souls of our Muslim brothers held in this sect that is Islam because the Lord loves them too and wants to save them. May all glory be given to the glorious risen Savior! Amen.