“Here One Feels Safe” - Part 2
Yesterday, we read about Ferney and Lizbeth’s dramatic escape from a tribal dungeon. Today, Ferney shares how his family became a target of the tribal authorities.
Yesterday, we read about Ferney and Lizbeth’s dramatic escape from a tribal dungeon. Today, Ferney shares how his family became a target of the tribal authorities.
Their ordeal began in April 2012 when their
father, Jaime Tenorio, was sent to jail for 20 years. His crime,
according to local indigenous leaders, was opposing the tribe’s
ancestral beliefs.
Tenorio, along with 19 other Christian
families, had been banished from their farmland because they had chosen
to follow Christ. But Tenorio had further antagonized the Council by
opposing the school system’s teachings on worshipping idols, venerating
nature, practicing witchcraft, and other indigenous customs counter to
Christian beliefs.
The tribal leaders, angry at his boldness
in defying their authority, ruled Tenorio “disobedient” for refusing to
follow their long-standing religious traditions, and imprisoned him in a
nearby prison. But that wasn’t the end of their wrath…they began to
target Tenorio’s wife and children.
Showing up unannounced at the Tenorio’s
home, tribal leaders planned on burning the crops, and tried to attack
his wife. When Ferney intervened, they tied him up, along with his
sister, Lizbeth. Binding their hands and feet, both were thrown into the
bed of a truck and taken to the dungeon. The two teenagers were
locked-up and abandoned.
In part three, Ferney shares about his life now.
One With Them
Be One With Them, His children who are suffering for Christ’s sake. Thank God for His promise to never leave us, or give us more than we can endure. Join in this prayer:
One With Them
Be One With Them, His children who are suffering for Christ’s sake. Thank God for His promise to never leave us, or give us more than we can endure. Join in this prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, hallowed be Thy
Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Thank You for your promises, and we pray for all the children suffering
for Your Son that they will feel Your Very Presence, and are comforted.
In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
4/16/2013
For I know the thoughts that I think toward
you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a
future and a hope.
(Jeremiah 29:11)
(Jeremiah 29:11)
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