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 PrintableVersion Out of the black shadowsAstonishing!OUT OF THE BLACK SHADOWS Stephen Lungu gives his experiences in the years when independence was coming to South Africa. It is an astonishing story. The marvel is that Stephen survived his childhood at all, physically or emotionally. He was abandoned on the street by his mother whom he did not see again for many years. He then lived out of refuse bins and slept under a bridge or in the street. The description of his utter desolation and despair is moving. The Black Shadows were a gang of boys who were so desperate they did not care what they did. In the course of their experiences they became politicised and the book is worth reading for the moment when Stephen is converted at a tent mission with bombs ready in his pocket! The struggles of this illiterate boy then to prepare to preach the gospel are told graphically. From the day after he was converted he preached on buses and in the street and saw other people converted. He was befriended by the Dorothea Mission and began the task of learning to read and live a disciplined life. Patrick Johnstone (author of Operation World and much mentioned in the book) writes: 'What an encouragement to any who fear to launch out into serving the Lord because their own lives were so disadvantaged.' Read the book and take courage from seeing what God can do! Sonia Wardle, London© Evangelicals Now - March 2002 |
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