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A SELECTED "NORTHERN LIGHTS"
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
(from Issue #487)
They Wouldn't Listen to Him ...
at First
NCEM's early missionaries thrilled at the zeal of Native Christians
who shared their faith. Honorary member Cliff McComb remembers those who
were saved at Weagamow Lake (ON) in the early 1950s.
Cliff tells of one man in particular, Alex Kenequenash, who felt that
the Lord wanted him to go to a neighbouring village where some of his
relatives lived. There was no other means of travel then, other than dog
team or walking on snowshoes. Alex chose the latter.
"He walked 90 miles through the bush where there was no road and no
trail," says Cliff. When he returned he told of how, at first, the
people didn't want to listen to him. He had, in fact, faced an intense
spiritual battle there. "It was just like some great creature came
down upon me and gripped me," Alex reported. "I just covered my head
and pleaded the blood of Jesus."
Then things changed. There were just a few families staying in the
small village at the time, but Alex had kept on preaching. And almost 20
people got saved! He came home bringing gifts of tanned hide and money
for Bibles.
Alex reported that the villagers had asked him to come back in the
spring. So the Christians at Weagamow financed and sent him there for a
short-term outreach. "Our first [worker] sent out ... just a little
over a year after we arrived in Weagamow!" notes Cliff in amazement.
One day, later that spring, the people at Weagamow noticed a large
group of canoes coming from across the lake. It was, in fact, a whole
village, the one where Alex had ministered. They were moving to Weagamow
for the summer so that they could study the Word of God more!
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