Today we visited Binti and I gave her a Swahili Bible. Last year she visited my dad’s church and she heard an announcement about Bibles for any family that doesn’t have one. She signed up for a Bible that day and has wanted one for a long time.

Binti is a co-wife. That means she is the second wife of a man who has two wives. They can do that in Congo. When we came to her apartment there was like a big group of people already there. They were having a kind of funeral there because the baby of the first wife died. It was sad and they were trying to comfort the first wife. Binti was very busy and her main job was cooking for all the people who came. So we had to go to a friend’s apartment nearby and Binti met us there later.

Binti was so tired from the work, but she was really glad to get a Bible that she could read in Swahili which is her language. She said she would read it every day and try to learn more about God. She also said she wanted to start coming to the church. We prayed for her and we gave her some food that we had in the car, and she asked us to come again and teach her about the Bible.