SAD TESTEMONY

Steven was doing the Work of God for nearly two years. He began as an assistant pastor in Bogota, Colombia but was later transferred to Maicao, which is also in Columbia. From the time he began doing the Work of God, his mother would always call to check up on him. She would ask him to come back home because she missed him terribly and she was getting really sick. His aunt would also call and say the same thing. His heart began to turn away from the things of God; he constantly complained about how the weather was too hot and the water was too cold in Maicao, and how he no longer had the comforts he was accustomed to. That is, he began to look at the circumstances of that place and worrying about his own life.

He mentioned how he no longer prayed or fasted and was no longer concerned with the souls that God had trusted in his hands. Consequently, he lost his communion with God and decided to abandon everything and return to his parent’s house.

When he got back home, he went to church and explained his situation to the pastor. He said that he would like to continue helping in the church, even if it was only as a member or possibly as an assistant. But that only lasted a week; he soon stopped attending church meetings because he ran into some old “friends” from around his neighborhood that he used to hang out with before coming to church.

From that day on, he never went back to church. The pastor tried to find out why but he would only say that he didn’t want to come back and that he didn’t want to talk about it anymore. The assistants also insisted for him to come back but he always said no.

He started going out to parties, bars, staying out all night and not listening to anyone, not even his own mother. He would drink to the point of losing consciousness. This went on for about four months, until Saturday night, August 7, 2010. As he returned home, he was approached by a young man who asked him for his name and then shot him three times in the head.

He fell into a coma. The doctor’s explained to his mother that he had lost an eye and that he was in a critical state of health. There wasn’t much that they could do because he had blood in his brain and if he survived, he would have permanent brain damage. Although he was alive because of a life-support machine, he was already brain-dead.

His mother says that he was mistaken for someone else and if she knew that this would have happened, she’d never have let him leave the Work of God.

Even though he was in a vegetative state, the hospital sent him home. He died a week later, on Friday, September 24, 2010.

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