Berta became a Christian when she was only 13 years old. Her parents were not Christians, though, and they did not like that she was following Jesus. Sometimes they would even beat her for going to church in a neighboring village, but “God helped me, and I did not give up,” Berta said. “I kept going and praying until I got married, because my parents were not Christians.”
At one point in Berta’s adult life, she was so sick that she almost died. She had seizures and a fever for four months, and no medical intervention could help her. Finally, Berta prayed, asking the God she had trusted since childhood to heal her. God healed her body, proving that He not only has the power to give her salvation and heal her heart, but to heal her body as well.
Today, Berta and her husband are leading the church that they started in their local village with the help of HLA. Berta says that “the audio Bible has been so helpful” in their ministry, because the people in her village can not read, but “they really understand the audio Bible.” At their church, Berta and her husband have a speaker connected to a battery, and a microphone connected to the speaker. They put the audio Bible next to the speaker so everyone in the church can hear the Word of God in their tribal language of Sukuma.
Learn more about how God has since changed Berta’s mom’s life!