Faith Helped Slave Keep Going
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Geoff Thatcher
In 1986, Francis Bok was kidnapped and forced into slavery. FrontPage Magazine has an article on a recent speech he delivered to students at the University of Toronto. Like so many others, Francis credits his faith for helping him survive until free.
For ten long years, Bok told his listeners, he would lie awake at night and wonder who was going to come and free him from this hopeless, helpless life of a slave where he was told he was just an animal. Even his forcible conversion to Islam, outwardly in Bok’s case, did not bring any improvement in treatment. Only his faith in God, the Dinka slave stated, and his desire to see his parents again kept him going.
I believe that faith has a lot of power in people’s lives, and ecpecially for those who are living captive and have no choice for their future. In Francis Bok’s situation, he was forced into slavery after he was kidnapped and without the power of faith he probably would have died. This makes me wonder how today, where there is no slavery, people mostly use faith in their lives. I am very curious to what type of faith Francis Bok was practicing and what the biggest part of it was that kept him going.