The Fulani herdsman, now an evangelist, converts to Christianity 22 years ago
A member of the Fulani tribe, Haruna Sori Shuaibu, says he became a Christian in 1999 after an encounter with Jesus Christ.
Shuaibu is now an evangelist in Adamawa State. He is a Fulani, an ethnic group with more than 99 per cent of its population being Muslims, according to Wikipedia.
Church Times, which first published the story, says Shuaibu became a Christian in 1999 after reading a tract given to him by a missionary.
It is rare to find Christian Fulani, and rarer to find a Fulani herdsman who says he is a Christian.
But Shuaibu, at the time a Fulani herdsman, says he discovered the truth in Christianity and now preaches primarily to his Fulani kith and kin despite the risk involved in that kind of mission.
He works as a missionary with the Burning Bush Ministry.
Church Times says Shuaibu shares his experience with them at the 2021 Conference on Practical Evangelism at the Gospel City, Offa, Kwara State.
The Fulani herdsman narrated his experience: “I became really agitated about the issues I raised earlier. That was in 1998. That made me start praying and telling God to show me the way. I told God I don’t want to perish that he should reveal the truth to me. While this agitation was going on, I met a missionary who gave me a tract. That was on June 13, 1999.
“The miracle about this tract was that I never knew how to speak and read English very well as at that time. But when the man gave me the tract, I discovered I could read every sentence in the tract. The tract ministered to me greatly. Behind the tract, there was the sinner’s prayer. I prayed the prayer. After praying, I felt so light and free. It was like somebody had just helped to lift up a heavy load from my head.
The persecuti0n
“The change was so drastic that in no time, my family noticed that something had happened to me. They knew almost immediately that I had become a Christian. That was the beginning of heavy persecution for me. I almost lost my life. My brothers were persecuting me more than my parents.
“They first gave me time to come back to Islam. When they saw that I was not going back to Islam, they did everything to frustrate me and attempted to kill me.
What the Holy Spirit told me
“The Holy Spirit told me three things when I gave my heart to Jesus. He said, number one, read your Bible, number two, read your Bible, number three, read your Bible. He said to me that it is while reading the Bible that he would meet with me and give me direction and understanding,” he said.
