I used to be an orphan and was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Okoro to be their only child. For a long time, I lived a fortunate life under their care. They showed me love, and loved me with everything they had access to. I was able to receive the best toy in town, and I attended the best primary education. I brought luck into my family. My mother, the woman who adopted me and was barren for fifteen years of marriage conceived. She gave birth to a twin. Two baby boys were born. The next year, she gave birth to a baby girl. I also brought financial luck to them. Their business which was collapsing revived and prospered when I came into their lives. However, with the birth of their own flesh and bloods, my parents began to withdraw the love which they had given me away from me. My mother had sworn that she would rather die than to see me ?who has no background? reaped from where I have not sown. Therefore, she began to make life unbearable and miserable for me. Living on Earth was like living in hell. I was completely deprived of the love and care I have known. It was then that I realized I was not their flesh and blood but an adopted child. My parents hated me. They hated me so much that they even hated the floor that I stepped on in bitterness. They gave me only very basic secondary education.

However, that was not the most terrible thing they did to me. The most horrible and hurtful thing they did to me was when they took me to a place for ritual sacrifice in exchange for some money. I was chained from my hands to my legs. The leader of the occult said that I seemed to be a child of blessing when they took a knife to slaughter me, I shouted to Jesus for the first time in my life for help. With immediate effect, the leader of the occult commanded his people to let me go.

I ran away, half naked, to the nearest police station I could find. I narrated my whole story to the police but they could not do anything about what happened to me! One of the inspectors in the station took me home and clothed me. Yet, after I stayed a short period of time with him, he wanted to rape me! I ran away from him. God was faithful to me. A woman who lives alone by herself and owns a car became my provider. She housed me and started to show me care and love. Yet, she was a lesbian and so I ran away from her. I went to a church that same night and stayed there with a security guard. I was introduced to the pastor the next day and given a job as his secretary. God also provided me with accommodation through the pastor. Most importantly, it was there while working in the church that I began to grow in my knowledge of God and his words. Yet, good times never lasted the way you wanted them to.

The devil that is always eager to destroy me, made use of my pastor to hurt me. My pastor began to lust after me. He made advances towards me, and tried to make love to me while we were in his office. I was forced to flee, again, to safeguard my virginity. This time, I ran away from the church with suicide in my mind. Everybody in my life so far has failed and disappointed me. I concluded that God himself has also failed me. I wanted to die since I saw that there was no more reason for me to remain alive in this world. Yet, God loves me. During one such night, he came to me in a dream and made himself known to me.

In my dream, the lord told me that I am a child of destiny and he is with me. He has allowed me to pass through all the pain and disappointments I faced in my life for a purpose. In my dream, the lord gave me a handkerchief to wipe off my tears, and told me that he is the father to the fatherless and the mother to the motherless and that is my background. Hence, I dedicated my life to serving him in spirit and in truth. Since then, the lord has been using me in mighty ways to affect the lives of others positively. Many people have been giving me testimony ever since I had come into contact with them and everything turns up positively. As a matter of fact, I have now nine abandoned children under my care. When I saw the first abandoned child on my doorstep, I wept and could not bring myself to turn my back on the child. I have rented a small apartment in one local village in Nigeria

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