Every Child Ministries fighting child sacrifice and ritual abuse of children in Africa

Child rescued after ritual torture !

Breaking News March, 2010

When Resty, the coordinator of ECM’s Gayaza Sponsorship Project in Uganda visited her sister recently, she had Lorella’s training on child trafficking fresh on her mind.  So when she learned that a village woman had just rescued a three year old child who was discarded in a sack, she was immediately interested.  As she learned to do in her training, she began to ask more questions, to look deeper. 

In God’s mercy, a kindly lady found the little girl and did everything possible to rescue her, cleaning her up and seeking medical treatment at a hospital in spite of that fact that the child seemed not to see, hear or make any sound, and that all her joints had stiffened, including her backbone.  The foster mother named the child Hope Tereza, and cared for her valiantly in spite of the fact that she had two other children to care for, one of them also unable to speak,  and that her tumbledown hut leaked badly.

As the police began to search for the parents, two men showed up threatening the foster mother.  It turned out that these men had kidnapped the child eighteen months previously and had used her as a sacrifice for rituals in a traditional shrine.  The police then were able to locate the parents, who had nearly exhausted all their resources, even selling their land in their search for their missing child.  The police have advised the family to leave the child in foster care for the time being while the parents settle some family issues.  The girl’s original name was Resty, the same as the ECM worker who has been helping her.

ECM has agreed to offer help to the valiant family who rescued the child as well as to the child Resty herself.  We’ll call her Resty Hope to combine the two names.  We have given assistance from our Rescue Fund, but we now need additional help.  If we pull together, we believe that this family should be the beginning of a new sponsorship program in the Masaka District.  We are seeking sponsors not only for Resty Hope, but for the two other children of the foster family.  We also need special funds to help meet Resty Hope’s special needs and to get the new Masaka program started.  In addition, our staff will be working with police and other stakeholders to better understand how child are abducted, so they can develop informative skits for public use that will show parents how they can protect their children against the growing problem of child sacrifice in Uganda and other African countries.  Gifts will also be accepted for this program.

Resty Hope’s joints are becoming less stiff with therapeutic massage, she seems to be seeing and hearing, and she is now able to smile.  It is  believed that a cerebral palsy chair would help her.

I remember being impressed recently as I watched a video recently of Gianna, a young woman who suffers cerebral palsy induced by the late term saline abortion by which her mother sought to end her life.  She was born alive but damaged by the saline, and has become a mighty advocate of life.  (You can watch her at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPFhCNOuQ.  If you have difficulty, just go to youtube and type abortion survivor in the search box.)

Like Gianna, Resty  Hope,  may never again be normal (although we acknowledge God’s ability to heal).  But even if she is never normal, God must have very special plans for her life.  Who else could have sent a woman who had such a heart to help her, just when she was at the point of death?

Let’s all join together in praying for Resty Hope!

Every Child Ministries is also helping other child victims of ritual abuse, some who have suffered such horrific abuse that out of respect for their privacy, we cannot mention the specifics of their case.  Please pray for them!

Resty now has a sponsor, but here’s how you can help:

_____ Sponsor one of the foster mother’s other children, or another child in the new Lwengo (formerly Masaka) Project.

_____ Give a special gift to the Lwengo Project to help with Resty Hope’s special needs and the needs of the foster family who is helping her.

_____ Help ECM start the Initiative Against Child Sacrifice so we can help parents learn how to keep their children safe from this growing menace.

_____ Help support our Child & Family Advocate, Resty Kawalya, who needs support partners.   Resty is also the one who found and rescued Henry, whom we called “Cinderella Boy” from slavery conditions.  This kind of ministry is where she shines.  Have you ever though about having your own special African missionary?  Help her continue with a monthly pledge of any amount.

_____ Want to help but can’t decide how?  Let us apply your gift to the account where it’s most needed.

_____ PRAY for Resty Hope, her parents, and her foster family, also for Resty Kawalya, our ECM worker who is heading up this project.  Pray also for other children we are helping who have suffered such horrific abuse that out of respect for their privacy we cannot talk about the specifics here.  They need your prayers!