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Witnesses with Fewer
Shefaye, too."
Though our Superintendent Tekle came and showed
them that our church is legal, the officials could not agree to our release. After eleven days they sentenced us to three months in prison and transferred us to Ziway jail.
From the morning of our entry in Jail, we witnessed the word of God to the prisoners. One of them with shackles on his feet hobbled to me and told me the sad story of his life: "I attended a Lutheran mission school until 1 reached the eleventh grade, then I took a two-year Bible course and worked as a preacher until conflicts between the leaders of the church disillusioned me. I abandoned my faith, forsook God and became a Cadre and went to the battle field
answering the call of my country. When I returned from the front line, I received appointment as chairman of the
communist party committee in Ziway orphanage school and taught that Christians should be arrested to compel them to deny their faith. I lived a wicked and godless life, and now I am sentenced to death for murdering my wife with a knife. I want to worship God if He will forgive me and have mercy
on me."
I gave him the Word of God beginning with true
repentance, baptism in Jesus name for the remission of sins, the in-filling of the Holy Ghost, and the Apostle's faith.
Though he had not heard these things before and it differed from the teaching he had received, I answered his questions
with the Word and he accepted the truth. While I taught him, four others believed and wanted to be baptized, one of them a guard in the prison. The police asked the chief guard for
permission and he allowed me to baptize the four men in Lake Ziway, but not the man with the death sentence.
God's glory on my life made the soldiers and the