Imagine with me for a moment that you're a parent and your daughter ends up missing. This is your flesh and blood, kin, your future. Like most parents you've dreamed of seeing her have children and watching your grandchildren grow up, as you rest and retire in to your older years.
Now imagine that your daughter is not only missing, but that after seven months of not knowing where your daughter is, you receive a phone call that tells you that your daughter is dead. How would you feel? Would you believe it or hold out hope? Would you collapse in despair because your heart was broken in a zillion pieces and it was just the confirmation you needed?
Now add to your grief, worry and loss the fact that the body of your daughter has never been found. Do you believe she's dead or still hope for the best?
I'm not sure about you, but I can't even remotely begin to imagine the emotional wreck I would be and how I would go on. I'd be crushed beyond measure.
Sadly, the scenario I've just described has happened to Helen and Dakim Gyang Bot, who are the parents of their 24 year old daughter, Simi Maltida Kim.
Here's more of the story as described by Compass Direct:
The Bots live in an undisclosed town near Jos, in Plateau state, but their daughter was a final-year student of Science Laboratory Technology at the Federal Polytechnic, in northeastern Nigeria’s Bauchi state. She had told them of an instructor there who humiliated her because of her Christian faith, they said.
“She told us that this Muslim teacher would summon her and then question her faith, or even bring in some Muslim students to confront her over her Christian faith,” said her mother, Helen Bot. “When she told us this, we advised her to keep away from the Muslim teacher as much as possible.”
The problem came to a head when the instructor failed her on a written exam without even looking at it, she said.
“This Muslim teacher did this to force our daughter into submitting to recanting her Christian faith, but this did not deter her from remaining firm as a Christian,” Helen Bot said.
Kim retook the exam. Right after turning it in, again the Muslim teacher took her answer sheet and followed her out of the examination hall, telling her that he would never allow her to pass his course.
You may read the full story here. Please call out to the Lord for grace, mercy and peace for this family. Pray also for God's comfort for them. Please share this story with your praying friends also, because it's so important. Christians in Nigeria are paying a high price for their faith and trust in Christ. They need you to pray. Please pray right now.
