Nigeria, March 25 -- D.L Moody said, "I would rather awake a sleeping church than a sleeping world."

It was in 1984, far away in Kaduna State, the northern part of Nigeria, that my dad had an encounter with the Lord in his hotel room. This encounter changed his life and right there that night he knelt down by his bedside, and gave his life to Jesus. He rushed back home with the joy of this encounter, and for the first time in the same week, I and my siblings filed out in front of a firebrand church to totally surrender our lives to the Lord Jesus. That was in 1984, when I gave my life to the Lord Jesus at a Nigerian Baptist Church in the southwestern part of Nigeria. The light the Lord is shining through us to the world today was sparked...