Christian and Muslim students are open to changing their lives when they hear our message of social righteousness.

In the last few months of 2018 the Jos volunteer team visited schools in rural villages around Jos for the first time; these are mixed government schools with both Muslim and Christian students.

They found students excited to test for HIV/AIDS and saying they'd heard scare stories about the disease, didn’t have many facts and had not had an opportunity to be tested.

“Now they know their status they can take steps to avoid becoming infected. Those who are positive have been enrolled in drugs programmes,” said international coordinator Tassie Ghata. “We encourage them by sharing their future is bright, even with HIV, because of the drugs available.”

Tassie remembers Umar, a Fulani boy, who wrote on his testing consent form that he was a new convert.

“We spoke with him to check he understood what becoming a Christian means. He said yes he did and he had already been hearing about Jesus Christ. The principal at his school, who is a Christian, will follow up with him as will one of our volunteers.

”During our time there Umar publicly witnessed before other Muslim and Christian students that he was accepting Christ.”

During October and November, the Jos and Yola volunteer teams visited nine secondary schools, sharing our message of social righteousness with 3,832 students.

Of these, 1,419 chose to be tested for HIV/AIDS with three testing positive. Six hundred and twenty-one rededicated their lives to Christ and another 230 made a first commitment.