Faithfulness in the Darkest Places

Josephine Bakhita’s life is a testament of God’s faithfulness in the darkest circumstances. She was born in Darfur, Sudan, among the Daju people. Her first years were happy, but at age eight she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders. For twelve years, she was bought and sold multiple times, forced to convert to Islam, and subjected to cruel beatings and scarification. Bakhita later recalled that a day did not go by when she did not receive a wound of some kind. 

Her body bore 114 scars from her time in slavery. The trauma…