“Apparently he didn’t kill himself because of something he heard on the radio.”

Hyaicenthe’s ears perked up when he heard the story, and he got the man’s name before he left.
Hyaicenthe is a Gospel Outreach worker who does a short Ditammari-language program on the local radio in Boukoumbé, paid for by AFM project money.

Hyaicenthe went to the village of the man who had decided against suicide. Asking around, he finally found the man’s family and greeted them. He came back another day and found the man himself. He told him he had been the voice on the radio, and he asked the man to tell him his story.

“I was having a bunch of difficulties with my older brothers,” the man said, “and I was at my limit. I didn’t know what to do, so I decided that night to kill myself, and I headed out toward the bush. As I was passing the last house before leaving the village, I heard your voice on the radio say, ‘Don’t kill yourself. There is hope.’ That got my attention, and I put my ear against the wall of the house to listen to the rest. By the time the program was finished, I didn’t want to kill myself anymore. I stayed there by the house that night, and the next day I went home.”

Praise God! He led this hopeless soul to the right house at the right time to hear the right message. And He led Hyaicenthe to speak those words that night. As the man listened to the word of God, the power of Satan that was pushing him to kill himself was broken, and good won over evil.

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