Jor’s Testimony
From Angry and Abandoned to a Child of God: Jor’s Story of Transformation
How a childhood encounter with Jesus and His Word led Jor from desperation to divine love.
While packing books at work one day, Jor was suddenly captivated by a familiar cover: the OneHope Book of Hope.
A young Jor in the streets near his home in the Philippines
Memories flooded back to Jor as he recalled receiving the book as a young boy in the Philippines, burdened with the relentless struggles of his childhood.
At only five years old, Jor was abandoned by his father, leaving him and his mother devastated and desperate. As a result, Jor’s childhood was spent caring for his younger brother and tirelessly assisting his mother as she worked to keep their family afloat.
Jor and his Mother constantly struggling to provide.
It was in the midst of these difficult years that missionaries came to Jor’s school and offered him the Book of Hope. While reading through the pages, he began to discover the promises of a father’s love through Christ. Jor realized that despite his abandonment, he could have a steadfast hope in God’s love.
“God is my heavenly father and is always with me,” Jor realized.
Jor receiving the Book of Hope from missionaries
Unfortunately, the trials of Jor’s life persisted despite the hope he had found. Jor went to live with his aunt for the next three years, where he endured constant emotional abuse until his mother returned for him. Upon coming home, he found his father had also returned but was still consumed by alcohol. Jor continually witnessed the abuse and anger of his father.
In facing his father’s anger, Jor began to become angry too.“I was angry at God,” Jor recalls. “God, why did you put me in a broken family?”
Jor wrestled with the anger and suffering he had endured until the day a friend invited him to church.
Jor’s friend brings him to church
It was then that the flicker of hope Jor had experienced as a young boy reading the Book of Hope was reignited. Immersed in the church community, Jor began to grow in his understanding of God’s love for him.
Now filled with passion about the love of Christ in his own life, Jor became a Cultivate intern with OneHope and is now a full-time team member in the Philippines.
Jor’s Church community that let him to OneHope
As Jor once again held the book that reached him when he was a desperate and lonely child, he began to understand the impact of his mission:
“At that moment I realized that God’s Word. Every Child. had been intertwined in my story since I was a child.”
Jor with the Book of Hope
As Jor continues to bring the gospel to children throughout the Philippines, he wholeheartedly believes in the transformative power of God’s word. The same power that transformed his life and brought him to know a loving father!
Watch Jor’s incredible story and share his video to encourage others in the transformative power of God’s word.
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