WITCHCRAFT is a real problem in the village. It messes with people’s minds and spreads fear in the hearts of both young and old. I was reminded of this the other day out at Chiyembekezo when some of our church ladies came and told us that a witchdoctor was standing before the chief’s council. Apparently, he was hired in a nearby village to find someone that had been missing for two days. Long story short- he made false claims that the person died and illegally searched people’s homes! Now he was being called out for it. The people were upset that his word hadn’t been accurate but I was a little upset that no one had any qualms about going to the witchdoctor in the first place! In my mind I was thinking… “Hello??! There’s a witchdoctor being employed here and we’re all OK with that?!?!?” The people were simply judging him for not delivering as advertised! 

WITCHCRAFT is such a huge problem in our area. Two weeks ago, the son in law to one of our members died in the village. They had his funeral, buried him and spent the days afterward in morning. 

Then really weird stories started to surface about family members having sightings of the deceased. “He met me on the road.” “I saw him in my house.” “He came to me out of the shadows.” These comments are what I’ve dealing with for the last 48 hrs. Then to make matters worse, a witchdoctor arrived from Malawi claiming that he could resurrect the same young man and that he wasn’t “really” dead. If it wasn’t so sad with everyone believing all this, it would be comical! All I could think of was that old man on the Princess Bride who said, “Mostly dead is slightly alive!”