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VICTOR BWALYA’S TESTIMONY
One day I had a dream. In that dream, I was given a scripture (Mark 5:20). When I woke up, I read the scripture and I realised that God really wanted me to share my testimony with somebody who was discouraged.
This is just a summary of my testimony, but very soon I will narrate the whole testimony.
It starts like this:
When I was born I was just okay but after one year and some months, I suffered from polio which left both my legs paralyzed. But because it was in the village (Mpika chief Mukungule), by the time I was taken to hospital it was too late - nothing could be done to improve my condition. I was then brought up in the village. I had no wheelchair, meaning that I was just crawling (ukwamfula). My parents could not afford to buy me a wheelchair because they were poor. To make matters worse, my parents are not educated and they did not even know the goodness that was in taking me to school. So, to them now that I was disabled, they saw me to be useless. It was terrible! As if that was not enough, my father separated with my mother and he went and married somewhere. We remained with my mother but she was always complaining and crying because she did not know what to do with me.......
At one time she almost committed suicide. If I remember well, she even thought of hanging me in the bush, but thanks be to God's intervention, because He knew me before I was conceived. Where we were and where the primary school was there was about 3-4 km. This made it difficult for me to start school and especially that I had no wheelchair. I was kept at home up to when I was about 15 years old. At this age I had never seen a vehicle or electricity with my own eyes . No one cared except God. But as it is said that "God makes things beautiful at His own time". I started school straight away in Grade six. I passed Grade seven, went to Chileshe Chepela boarding school for the disabled in Kasama, passed Grade nine, and came to Lusaka at the Kabulonga Boys secondary School. I finished Grade 12 in 2000. In 2001/2, I was admitted at the Univesity of Zambia where I did Computer Studies. I am now work at the Central Statistical Office. On 28th June 2008 I got married to Harriet Phiri. In my family, we are nine, four brothers and five sisters, and out of them all I am the only one who has finished school (Grade12). The rest are in the village.. Both my father and mother are alive thank God! I'm the third born and my home village is in Mpika northern province of Zambia.
My father now as I am speaking has married three women besides my mother. I thank God my mother is born again!
The details of who was paying for me, how I have passed through rejection, and so on and so on, will be in the full testimony once I completed narrating it.
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