She shared the story of her younger brother.  He's the next one down the line from her.  All during their growing up years in the village he was the family rebel.  As a young boy he attached himself to the Juju Man.  He was part of that group of young fellows who ran barefoot before the Juju Man, carrying his tools of the trade.  Dorothy's brother did many other things.  He was well known in the family as the "wild one".  

Finally their father sent him down to the Southwest Region to live with an Uncle and work on his farm.  Though a rebel, he was a hard worker.  Eventually the Uncle helped him get a job working in a pharmacy, and he began his slow climb up the ladder.  Soon his good buddy from his father's village showed up in town.  The two boys shared a small studio apartment and spent their free time plotting and planning how they would make it to the top.  After awhile they had saved up enough money to move to the big city of Yaounde.  Their goals were coming into focus. 

Being from the Northwest Region where virtually everyone is a "Baptist Christian", these two young men decided to attend church one Sunday morning.  And it was there, at the largest Baptist Church in all of Yaounde, sitting under the teaching of Pastor Philemon who is a godly man and a frequent guest at Shiloh, that these two rebels came under the sound of the Gospel.  Together they gave their hearts and minds to the Lord.  Shortly thereafter they were both baptized.  And day by day Almighty God continued the process of making them just like Jesus.  

The younger brother began going to night school to complete his high school education.  Eventually he phoned his older brother and announced that he wanted to attend seminary.  His brother told him that he was not in a position to help him out financially at that time.  "Oh no," he said "I'm not calling to ask for financial help.  I've saved up my own money.  I just wanted to let you know what my plans are."  

The two young men, who were by that time on fire for the Lord, went back up to the Northwest Region and attended seminary together.  But first Dorothy's younger brother had a visit to make.  He went to visit his mother.  He sat her down and began telling her all the bad things he used to do.  It was even worse than she knew.  Then he told her how his Heavenly Father had forgiven him of all his sins, and how he was going to attend seminary and prepare to become a preacher.  His precious mother had tears streaming down her face as she listened to her son's story.  And the details of that visit to his mother quickly spread throughout the entire extended family.  "Can this really be our relative?" they asked themselves.  When he completed his seminary training he became a Baptist pastor in the Northwest Region.  Now, years later, he has risen to the level of a district pastor, supervising a large number of other pastors, in addition to pastoring his own church.  Dorothy reports that whenever he illustrates one of his sermons with a story from his past life, the tears run down his cheeks.  He can never get over the wonder of it all.  That the God of the Universe would reach down and pull him out of the mess he was making of his own life, and set his feet on the narrow path that leads to life everlasting is so much more than he deserves.  Dorothy says that of all her brothers and sisters, he is the most on fire for the Lord.  And this from a lady who is herself deeply in love with her Lord!

This true story explains why it was that Dorothy sat in Shiloh's library this afternoon, across the table from her son and her nephew who had come to visit her, and prayed up a storm for his salvation.  Her well loved son had no idea that the entire time of his visit his mother was crying out to God on behalf of his soul.  "Oh God," she cried "make my son just like my brother.  Don't let him die in his sins."  Her son, though taught the Bible from an early age, has thus far rejected God's free gift of salvation.  And now he is the same age as Dorothy's younger brother was when he turned his life over to the Life Giver.  

Sometime before Dorothy came to live at Shiloh, her son said to her "Ma, why do you always say I'm not a Christian?  I AM a Christian."  Dorothy told him that he has never given his heart and life to the Lord.  He has never confessed that he is a sinner and cried out to Almighty God for His salvation from sin.  And he has never followed God into the waters of baptism, which is an outward sign to the world of what has happened in his heart.  He told her that she was right.  He had never done that.  But he will.  He promised her that he will.  When asked when that will be, he quickly replied that he would become a true Christian when he was ready to get married.  Before he gets married he will get saved and be baptized.  What a foolish young man!  God says that TODAY is the day of salvation.  We have no promise of tomorrow.