PART 6
“GHOST RUN”
©?Opeyemi Akintunde
“Two weeks? AdeYanju why did you do this to us!”
I couldn’t believe what AdeYanju did few minutes back…
Although I had felt a bit emotional after the little girl’s talk but I wasn’t moved to the point of wanting to stay back.., however AdeYanju said out of the blues…
“ We will stay with you for two weeks! I am a Bible graduate, so I will see what I can do in two weeks…!” AdeYanju had said to the group that had walked up to the car…
My world stopped! I looked at AdeYanju with a look that said
“ Are you crazy?”
Then AdeYanju decided to put me on the spot by saying…
“ Unless my wife says otherwise!”
And then I had over 8 pair of eyes looking at me for a supportive answer….
“ Sure! Two weeks! He just said it, Two weeks he will teach you all you need to know about Christianity, after all he is the pastor!” I said sarcastically
“ Thank you ma’am, thank you for being a good mother!” The spokesman said…
“ Ma, we can help you clean up the house!” One of the women said
Before I could turn down the offer, they all had marched towards the house…
Tears flowed down from my eyes…
“ AdeYanju why? Why did you do this to us! Two weeks in this God forsaken place… AdeYanju, this town doesn’t need a Bible student who just graduated, it needs a pastor who is grounded in the word and has the fire of God in his bones and you know you don’t even have a nerve in you talk less of Fire!”
I poured out my tears in frustration in the car! I kept hitting the car steering very hard… For that moment, I regretted being the wife of a baby husband…
“ Adenike, I am sorry. I couldn’t just watch us leave them. I promise you, just two weeks…I will do a crash Bible course with them! Please at least let me do something for my self…” AdeYanju said and I knew I had to stay back with him.
That day was probably the worse day of my life as I watched how over 20 people kept walking in and out of my new home. I didn’t like people trooping into my house…At night, I would always feel the presence of those people like their Spirits were hanging around…
Therefore, when it was time to sleep, it was very impossible. I decided to sit outside the balcony and with the solar powered lamp I brought, I tried to read the scriptures….
Instead, I slept off
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“They are staying back…” A voice said
“ I told you they cannot be easily scared away..” Another voice replied
“ But they carry no fire!”
“ But they know the word, they just don’t know the power in it…”
“ Well, let’s hope they never wake up to the power in the word… they won’t be a problem!”
“What if they teach our people the Word and our people discover the power in the word, then we are finished! What we have been able to achieve all these years is because the people do not know the word, once they know the Word, they will grow to have the Power!”
“ So what do we do to stop this children from teaching them the word…!”
“ Well, my suggestion is that, Since we have tried sending them out and they didn’t listen, let’s uproot them”
“ Uproot them?”
“ Yes!”
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I snapped out of that trance… I couldn’t remember the faces of those speaking but the words were clear…
“ What did they mean by uprooting us?” I reasoned as I walked back inside the house…
After a week of staying in Mororo, AdeYanju fell sick and I was beginning to suspect this was what “ Uprooting” meant…
“ AdeYanju, we need to leave… You need to see the Doctor!”
“No, I know this is not a mere sickness, so I won’t be threatened by the devil to stop my two weeks Bible study with this people… Adenike, if I die, I die!”
His words were exactly what happened…
AdeYanju died exactly 10 days after we stepped into Mororo….
To be continued
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