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Unseen Hands
deliverance to believers, and the judgment of God fell on the unruly and the disobedient until the message of truth
reached the far corners of Jemjem and ^vord spread to the neighboring province of Borana.
Ayoung man named Tesfaye went to Borana to teach school. He witnessed to the pastor of a Lutheran church and his associates. They answered, "We have been warned against the Apostolics for five years and would like to know what you teach." The men had open and hungry hearts. After they heard Tesfaye, the senior pastor asked him to teach the whole congregation. Five hundred people received the Word and wanted to be bap tized. Tesfaye took the pastor to Dawit, presbyter of Wollayta, who baptized him.
Dawit and Genetu went to Borana early in January and baptized 160 souls at midnight, for by this time great
opposition had begun. The two brothers slipped away secretly to avoid arrest and disappointed more than three
hundred who hoped to be baptized the next day. God saw their tears and hungry hearts and sent Brother Freeman in the third week of January to ordain their pastors and send them back to baptize their people.
Debena felt the call of God to go to the South to Wollayto. There he founded a church, was arrested, and was jailed for six months. Finally the government office where he worked sent him away so that he could not
preach there anymore.
Debena'sjob transferred him to Jimma Province. To his surprise, he found three hundred Lutherans, and he
began to teach them in private prayer meetings. (This was amazing because that area is largely pagan.) He began to explain the Word more fully to them, and they were
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