BRUNEI: A DREAM OF JESUS 30 YEARS AGO LED SARA TO A LIFETIME OF SERVING OTHERS

Sara HAS BEEN faithfully SERVING the women in her church, helping them to build strong relationships withIN their FAMILIES. And it’s all because of a dream she had when she was 12…

Sara* is not from Brunei, but it’s where she grew up. She also didn’t come from a Christian home. But there was a mural of Jesus that someone had painted on the walls of a church – a church that Sara would pass every day on her way to and from school. As she passed it, she would slow her steps. One day, she even stopped to sketch the mural. 

When she was 12 years old, she had a vivid dream of a man in white. “In my dream, I heard a voice call me ‘My child’, and I thought, who would call me that?” says Sara. “But when I turned around and looked at that man, I knew He was Jesus. 

“He put his arms around my shoulders, and I remember having a conversation with Him. He showed me the family home I grew up in, and then He said something so peculiar. He said, ‘I will save them too.’ I had no idea what that meant. I was only 12 years old.” 

When she woke up, Sara rummaged through her things to find the drawing she made of Jesus and was amazed to find that it was the same person.  

BaPTISED AT SEVENTEEN

God continued to speak to Sara in dreams. She began attending church and got baptised when she was 17.  

The night before her baptism, she had another dream, where she saw a dove. “This time, I felt like the dove brought me out of earth,” she says. “I was in outer space, and I saw the earth in front of me. Then I heard a voice saying, ‘You do not belong to this earth, I will bring you home to paradise.’ During this time, I didn’t know much about the Holy Spirit, but that’s what God showed me.” 

Sara has lived in Brunei for 27 years, continuously serving the people in her church. She feels especially called to minister to married women. “I realised there are many women who are struggling in their marriages, and I believe that God has placed me here to help women build strong marriages and strong relationships with their loved ones,” she says.  

Brunei is currently number 48 on Open Doors’ World Watch List. The country fully implemented Sharia (Islamic law) in 2019, but it seems to have had little effect on Christians in the country so far.  

Local partners are supporting Sara and looking into more opportunities to meet with and train her so she can stand firm in her faith in Jesus.​