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"The king of Egbe sat up straight in his throne. I was his only guest, and he told me the story of SIM pioneer Tommie Titcombe's arrival in Egbe in 1908, during his grandfather's reign as king. When Tommie came walking out of the bush into the middle of the village, the people ran to hide. They thought he had been skinned because of his complexion. "My grandfather would have had him killed," said the king, "except
for the dream he'd just had. The king looked around the room slowly. He went on, "The night before Tommie arrived, my grandfather - the king dreamed that a man with no color in his skin would appear, and he was advised not to harm the man. In fact, the new man would bring 'healing and life' and a 'special wisdom' to the people of Egbe, and they should learn from him."
(The story of the birth of the church among the Yagba people in and around Egbe is one of the truly thrilling episodes in SIM history. )
Just a few months after I met the present Elegbe of Egbe and heard this story about his grandfather's dream, it was my turn to find a door opened by a dream. It happened in a Fulani camp. My wife Patty and
I, both doctors, had come to
our lives. God used Patty to save the life of young Jebel who was brought, near death, to the hospital. After his miraculous recovery, we went with Babangida, a Fulani evangelist, to visit the camp o fJebel's family. I helped vaccinate the Fulani cattle, and then that evening we showed the Jesus film in the Fulani language, Fulfulde.
After the film, Jebel's father Isa came to us, obviously shaken. He told us that the previous night he had had a dream. A man had appeared to him and repeatedly called his name. "That man," said Isa, "was the same one I just saw up on the screen-the man called Yesu Cristo."
("The King Had a Dream,"
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