Martine’s life was forever changed at age eleven. During a church service, a powerful, inexplicable feeling drew her forward. As she prayed, a wave of joy and peace washed over her. “Deep down I knew something had changed.”

Francine’s childhood was happy, but haunted by a fear of the dark and a weak, fluttering heart. Then her aunt visited, radiating a strange, new peace.

Gratien Nibigira, born in 1989, endured a traumatic childhood after his father was killed in the 1993 war, forcing him to grow up in a displacement camp. His education was interrupted by poverty, and he was a child-soldier for four years.

Ephraim’s life was marked for God from the beginning. As a gravely ill child in 1986, his father, in a desperate prayer, promised God, “If you heal him, I will dedicate him to you.”