Elfinesh Dabi's family arranged her marriage when she was only 16 years old. This young Ethiopian woman has known little but sorrow since then.

Her first child died in the womb. Then, when pregnant with her second baby, she fell down by the side of a road, injured, and could not get up. A kindly stranger took her to a hospital. But her baby died soon after delivery.

After she ended up divorced at a young age, she decided to commit suicide. Her brother came home one day to find her with a rope around her neck... and prevented her from taking her own life just in the nick of time. But Elfinesh was miserable. "I am sleepless, "she says. "I never sleep even for an hour in a night. I am so much troubled that life is meaningless to me. I am tired of living and weep every time."

But then she came to hear the Gospel during AE's evangelistic mission to Akaki-Kaliti, a suburb of the capital city of Addis Ababa. "When the preacher was praying," she says, "the evil spirit inside of me started to manifest and I was delivered! I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior. Since then, for the last four nights I have been sleeping more than 7 hours a night."

"This is a new experience in my life!" Elfinesh rejoices. "I am seeing a great change. Now I have peace of mind and I want to continue with it!"

Because of friends who pray and give generously to AE, desperate young women in Africa can find relief from their suffering and meaning in their lives through Christ. Your support makes all the difference!