For the New Year, I want to share with you the
stories of some of the students I work with and mentor on campus. Koketso is starting her second year at
university this month and is in the animal health course. She was very active in our witnessing
training group, Acts 1:8, last year and jointed us on our outreach to Lesotho. She also regularly attends our Bible study
and home church. During one of our movie showings last year she was also brave
enough to share her testimony with all the students that attended. I’ll let her tell her story…
“I am Koketso Mogashoa from South Africa (Pretoria),
currently studying Animal Health in the North-West University Mafikeng campus.
I am blessed with a family of 7, my grandparents, uncle and his wife, mom and
step-father and lastly my younger sister. My grandfather is a pastor at a
Baptist church which makes both him and my grandmother to be servants.
“I am raised by my mother’s aunt (grandmother’s
sister). On a regular bases, we would have visitors at my grandparent’s home, visiting
for counseling or just for a normal catch up and wherever they were it was
almost impossible to have their attention. At that particular time my mom
worked at a house selling agent so she often travelled and left me behind as
work got hectic and neither did I have enough time to spend with her. My dad on
the other hand is a man of his own kind he doesn’t care about me or anyone this
is pretty obvious that we don’t have a good relationship.
“I felt lonely, miserable, hurting, fearful,
unwanted and I would often spend time alone .Time went by feeling the very same
pain, it was made worse when my mother’s aunt was laid to rest hence I had to
move with my mother, younger sister and my step-father .I moved with them in a
state of hate and disbelieve that I lost someone who was like a mother. My
step-father started abusing me emotionally, but I woke up every morning with
hope that my mother will one day stand firm and be on my side but she didn’t
and she ended up chasing me out of their house leaving me homeless and to cut
the long story short I now live with my grandparents .
“On one Sunday the preacher was preaching about
peace, friendship, love and freedom God offers in his relationship and I felt
the urgency of grabbing the opportunity and ever since my life has never been
the same again. This means I agreed to the fact that Jesus Christ is the only
mediator between I and God, that I fully depend on him for eternity and that
there is no church or rules that can make me have eternal life. God really
intervened in my life I have peace, freedom, love, I am no longer feeling
lonely, I know I am his priority and I have a friend in him. Isn’t that great!”
Koketso has been a wonderful sister-in-Christ to
mentor and I look forward to working with her over the next few years. Please keep her in your prayers that she
would flourish spiritually and academically this year.
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