MARTYRS’ SONS: “I Found Out What Healing Actually Feels Like”
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In 1997, Warren and Donna Pett sold their 96-year-old family farm in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, after sensing God’s call to the mission field. In 2002, they moved to serve in Uganda’s Yumbe district, one of Uganda’s poorest districts and the only majority-Muslim district in the country. Warren and Donna provided agricultural training and spiritual discipleship at the Evangelical School of Technology in Aringa (ESTA).
On March 18, 2004, ESTA was attacked by masked men with guns. Warren and Donna, along with a Ugandan student, were killed.
Ezra and Saul Pett are the sons of Warren and Donna. Listen this week as they share on The Voice of the Martyrs Radio about their parents’ ministry and how Saul and Ezra wrestled with God and their own faith after their parents’ murder.
“My faith basically evaporated,” says Saul. “This event devastated me.”
But in the years since, God has gently and faithfully ministered to Saul and Ezra. He has comforted them in their loss and helped them address the anger they felt at their parents’ death. Today, they see His plan to produce eternal fruit, even when we may not understand what He is doing.
Listen as Saul and Ezra talk about renewing their faith, accepting God’s plan and even going to minister in the very place in Uganda where their parents were killed—and seeing the legacy Warren and Donna left even in their short time of missionary service.
You can give online to support the Pett’s ongoing work in Uganda here. You can read the story of Warren and Donna, from The Voice of the Martyrs free monthly magazine, here.
June 29 marks Day of the Christian Martyr, when Christians around the world honor a persecuted Christian who laid down their life for the cause of Christ. This year’s video and other resources from VOM focus on the story of Abdiwelli Ahmed, an ethnic Somali former Muslim gunned down in northern Kenya in 2013.
Watch a video about Abdiwelli’s faith and ministry and access all the resources for this year’s Day of the Christian Martyr to bless your church, small group or family with his inspiring example.
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| 0:00.0 | Saul Pett's parents were serving as missionaries in Uganda when their mission base was attacked, |
| 0:05.8 | and they were murdered, giving their lives for the gospel. |
| 0:10.4 | Of course, Saul was upset at losing his parents, and even now, years later, he still doesn't |
| 0:16.8 | completely understand God's plan. But he has faith that in eternity, God's purposes will be clear. |
| 0:24.8 | I won't know his purpose till I get there and ask him, and I can sit with him and say, |
| 0:29.2 | God, why did you do this? And he may just look at me and point, and there may be a whole flock of |
| 0:34.2 | people that they're there because of mom and dad, and because of the way that they were taken from |
| 0:39.8 | this world. And he may say, this happened for that one person, great thing. |
| 0:46.9 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. In fact, he told his disciples that the world |
| 0:52.6 | would hate them. He sent them out as sheep among wolves. Jesus' words came true in the life of the |
| 0:58.7 | apostles, and they're still coming true today in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:03.8 | Join host Todd Nettleton. We hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now |
| 1:09.2 | on the Voice of the Martyrs Radio Network. Welcome again to The Voice of the Martyrs Radio. |
| 1:13.6 | My name is Todd Nettleton, and we are connected across the miles today with Saul and Ezra Pett. |
| 1:19.8 | They are the sons of Warren and Donna Pett, who were martyred in Uganda in 2004, |
| 1:25.6 | and we're going to talk about Warren and Donna's story. If you get the Voice of the Martyrs magazine, |
| 1:30.3 | you will remember during the Martyrs issue last year, we told the story of Warren and Donna, |
| 1:36.6 | and we're going to dive into that this week on Voice of the Martyrs Radio. Saul and Ezra, |
| 1:41.4 | welcome to Voice of the Martyrs Radio. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Let's just share a |
| 1:46.3 | little bit about your parents, because I find their story very fascinating, because it's not like they, |
| 1:51.4 | you know, went to Bible school and had this idea, we're going to be missionaries from day one, |
| 1:55.8 | they were farmers. You guys had a family farm, it was a second generation on the farm, talk about |
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