Thirty years ago, pastor Richards Akonam invited an 11-year-old girl, Esther, to join him for morning prayer in a village he visited in southeastern Nigeria. One of the participants warned him, “She’s somebody’s wife.” Akonam, learning Esther was married to an 86-year-old man who was opposed to Christianity, recalled villagers telling him “not to even Read more... The post ‘I Couldn’t Turn My Back on Them’ appeared first on Christianity Today.