Pastor Ekien Nsulunka's Testimony
My name is Nsulunka Ekien-e-Kiag Baudouin. I’m a Congolese, married to Mary Nduku and we have three children – two boys, Joel, 18 years old and Silas, 10 years old, and a daughter, Priscilla, 20 years old. We live in Durban, Republic of South Africa. We work as a missionary family. I’m thankful to God to have this opportunity to share with the people of God how I had received Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior.
My daddy died when I was 7 years old then I had to be supported by my mother who was jobless. As I was very intelligent, in grade 4 I was living with white Catholic priests and became more and more interested even involved in Catholic doctrine. I still can remember in my primary school years, whenever people were asking me “who will you be when you grow up?” my answer used to be “a Pope.” They put me in a Catholic seminary, because of my call to be a Catholic priest, and even more than that, because I wanted to be Pope for this entire world. From that time until I went to Lubumbashi University (where I got my honors degree in international relationships) I was keeping my Catholic doctrine, even though I was living in total disorder and spending all my money in society pleasures. For me, Jesus was the son of God, and as I believed in his farther, it was enough. I didn’t really know the importance of Jesus. I was confused because, for me there were two ways to reach God. The first was through his mother Mary, before even seeing Jesus, (God) and the second was through Jesus Christ. This confusion troubled me a lot without getting a proper answer to my concern but still that was what I had been taught, therefore I truly believed it.
One day during an evangelization campaign I realized that I was totally lost before God, I realized that I was walking to the wrong direction and decided to come back to God as the Bible says in Luke 16:18-20, “I will set out and go back to my father and say to him; father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I’m no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men. So he got up and went to his father.” I prayed to Jesus and asked for forgiveness of my sins, I gave my life to Jesus Christ and accepted him as my personal Saviour and Lord. I became a child of God as it says in John 1:12, “yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”
In 1987 I became more interested in Bible studies, so in 1992 I studied missiology and currently work as a missionary in South Africa. Living for Christ becomes more and more important to me every day of my life. The Bible encourages me in 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 to “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” And God is also telling us, in Hebrews 6-10, that he remembers our works and the love we have shown to him as we have helped his people.
My brothers and sisters I would like to encourage you to accept Jesus Christ today as your Lord and Saviour. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:3, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
Briefly, the fact that I got a good education level from my Catholic doctrine and also the fact that I have seen in myself that I’m hospitable and generous, I was thinking that I’m already saved because of that, while it was an error. We’re saved by grace Ephesians 2; 9 “For it’s by God’s grace that you have been saved through faith, it is not the results of your own efforts.”