The Pygmies are primitive and
superstitious people. They always believed in the superstitions from father
to son. They never trust in modern medicine and in pharmaceutical products,
and they do not need them at all.
Brother Lileke, a Message believer and member of the church of Brother Manze, is
from a nearby village of the Yeyimbo villlage (a Pygmy village). He went there
to bring the End-Time Message but for a long time, no Pygmy wanted to believe,
and they rejected in all what the brother was saying, because for them, nothing
was more effective or mightier than their superstitions; so, they could not give
up the superstitions for another thing.
But one day, one of them had been bitten by a venomous snake and all the
village hastened to bring him help by all kinds of superstitions, but the
situation went from bad into worse and finally, the man died in spite of the
superstitions and the various practices to cure him. It was such a shock for the
village, and the cries, tears, and lamentations reached the close village where
Brother Lileke was living, and he felt in his heart to go and see what happened
there. Once there, he noticed that people were crying over one of them who died
after the bite of a venomous snake. Brother Lileke felt an anointing upon him
and he started to pray for the dead body in the presence of the entire village.
The dead man came back to life and rose up. He resurrected from the dead in the
presence of all the inhabitants of the village. The resurrected person is still
alive today with the scars of the snake on him.
Because of this miracle, Pygmies decided to give up their superstitions, and
they believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and got baptized in the Name of Jesus
Christ and from that time, the church of Pygmies of Yeyimbo started. This
happened in 2000.
When the war started, the Pygmies left the villages and went to take refuge
in the deep forest, and without brotherly fellowship, some started to weaken,
but at the end of the war they went back to their village, and they rebuilt
their huts. And, since 2001, I started to visit them each year, and when I
cannot go myself, I send one of my associate ministers to encourage them to
persevere in this way of salvation.
The first trip of me among the Pygmies in 2001 was painful. We made the trip
from Lisala to Yakata, 80 km (50 miles) on the river, on a non-motorized boat
with paddles. For this, we left Lisala at 7:30am and arrived at midnight.
In Yakata, we spent the night and the next morning, we went on walking through
the forest. The Pygmy brothers were such in a great joy to receive us in their
village.
From the church of the Pygmies in Yeyimbo, other churches were born and they
are scattered through the deep Equatorial forest, and every time we go there,
brothers from various churches gather in Yeyimbo for a great brotherly
fellowship around the Message. Here is their favorite song:
“Jesus Christ is the Liberator,
His great prophet is called William Branham.
The vision of William Branham saying that the Message would enter the jungle of
Africa is the Truth.
It has been fulfilled and the Message entered the deep Equatorial forest. Jesus
Christ is God and William Branham is His prophet.”
There was also an outpouring of the Holy Spirit among the Pygmies and the
gifts of the Spirit are marvelously operating. Some of the Pygmy brothers
received the gift of healing. They prayed for a woman who had Tuberculosis, and
she was healed. Sick people come from the close villages of Bantus to receive
the divine healing in the church of the Pygmies, where God operates signs and
wonders. God has proved that the power of resurrection is more effective and
stronger than the superstitions of the Pygmies.