A little about myself...

I was born in the D.R.C - Democratic Republic of Congo, in a small village called North Kivu. At the age of nine I was kidnapped away from my family with the Rebels. I spent most of the nine months as a slave. I was forced to kill people when I was nine and half years old.
During my stay as a slave I witnessed the death of my own two sisters Elizabeth and Catharine who were raped in front of me and shot, bruised to death.

After escaping from the cave I spent six months walking through the jungle, looking for peace I find my father shot six times on his back and my mother shot two times on her chest.
After the death of my parents I spent more than seven and half years running away from the Rebel soldiers. I couldn’t sleep because of the nightmares. Three of my friends where eaten by crocodiles in the river close to Burundi after trying to cross the border without passports. Then two of us survive. I spent most of my years running from D.R.C, from Congo to Mali, Burundi, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe then South Africa. To each and every country I have stayed in, I was either a refugee or a street kid because people were looking at my out appearance which was dirty rather than to listen to the things in my heart.

Some ask me Yookie when was the last time you went back home. Honestly its been 14 years, without going home because of the things I was busy getting healed from. So I ask you brothers, sisters and family to partner with me as I go to make different in my own country, I know lots of friends of mine who are still going through difficult, they never know how to go back to the society after loosing their beloved ones, I am ready to take this risk of going to share about Jesus to them.

I am now working as a full time missionary/volunteer with C.P.A.T, Cultural Performance Arts Training School, It’s a non profit organization, part of YWAM, We are based in Durbanville, Cape Town. Our vision is to make a difference in peoples lives through Drama, Dance, Music and evangelism.