At 12 years old he started using drugs and drinking alcohol.

Amadou lived in Cameroon. Nominally a Muslim, he consulted practitioners of indigenous tribal religions for spells for protection when he joined a gang. One of the occult priests gave him a knife he said was filled with black magic … Another gave him a fetish stone he said was made from human bones.

The charms didn’t protect him — he became addicted to drugs, and he managed to work his way up to become gang leader by age 18. Yet Amadou had no peace — he was plagued with nightmares about his crimes and the people he had stabbed with his cursed knife.

He went back to the shamans for blessings that would take away the nightmares, but they couldn’t help him. 

Thankfully you sent Lead Today to his town, and Amadou happened to meet the Lead Today teacher who invited him to join the program. 

Amadou soon committed his life to Christ, was baptized, and agreed to go to a Christian rehab where he overcame drug addiction!

Thanks to the lessons of Lead Today, Amadou was transformed — and he was able to return to his former gang and share his faith with them: they’re all following Jesus now, too!