I didn’t really know Roce outside of our group conference calls. She worked as a specialist in arts and culture, and she was a fellow-leader with the International Orality Network. Her background certainly gave us common ground for our work and a friendship, but I was...
Losing My Wife I was in the house as it burned. Sometime around 3:00 A.M., I escaped the thick smoke and flames through a second floor window. Because the fire started below the room where my wife for 41 years, Barcy, slept, she passed away. This mental tape of events...
“I thank God you are my wife. I thank God for our marriage. I will be faithful to you.” How these words made my heart flutter whenever I heard them! During the early days of my marriage, I felt like the luckiest woman on earth. I was madly in love with my husband, and...
Testimony of Esther Fe B. Gusto How We Met It was the year 1954. I was a 4th year student at the Far Eastern Bible Institute and Seminary (FEBIAS) College of Bible. Back then, a few third-year students who had their own girlfriends wanted their close friend and...
There I was, invited to attend the 10th Anniversary of the Kachin Refugee Learning Centre. Tears streamed down my face as I witnessed batch after batch of students coming onstage to perform. I silently prayed to God and told Him that it would be impossible for me to...
AN UNHAPPY ENDING He says: I was just fresh out of a relationship that lasted for around two years, but ended badly. My then- girlfriend went abroad and came home after a year to break up with me. The circumstances surrounding the break up were painful, leaving me...