FROM A LIFE OF NOTHINGNESS

Shepherds and members of Revelation Church of Asia, Fiji after a camp retreat  

“No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.”  -Oswald J. Smith 

Siteri Vuli is living proof of this quote made by one of the most prolific missions directors of the 20th century. 

‘Looking for love in all the wrong places’ 

A hard core sinner whose sole motivation in life was the party scene, Siteri was definitely not enthused when a Nigerian visitor to Fiji named Valentine persistently invited her to attend a church service at the Revelation Church of Asia Denomination, Suva (RCOA) of the United Denomination Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC). She eventually capitulated, and following a heated conversation with the pastor’s wife at the first timers interaction session, she agreed to become born again, despite the fact that she had no clue what she was doing. 

Church members come forward for prayer 

Her cluelessness, however was no match for the conviction that gripped her from that day in 2014 and led her away “from a life of nothingness and aimlessness”. Just like the woman at the well after she met Jesus, Siteri went right back into the throng of her unsaved friends and came out bringing her most influential friend to the Lord, and in her words, “we have both served God  to date by the Grace of God”. 

Prophet Dag Heward-Mills and Bishop Andrew 

“I am forever grateful and highly indebted to Prophet Dag Heward-Mills and Bishop Andrew”. Siteri said,  referring to Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, who sent Bishop Andrew Osei as a missionary, who in obeying the call of God, unwittingly orchestrated the salvation and transformation of a loose girl who went round drinking with strangers to a shepherd of young people who love to dance for God.  

Full of gratitude to the shepherd of her soul, Siteri said 

“My first time I heard our daddy preach was the message titled “How to Walk in Love”.  That message delivered me from so much foolishness and made me begin to enjoy serving God. 

By following Bishop Andrew and under his guidance and care he taught me to be a lady and more importantly how to cook, including frying an egg. 

In my 8 years of being in the church I have become a wife and a mother.”

Dedication Of Eunice Paula Vuli by Bishop Andrew

Fascinating also about Siteri’s great change is how she met her husband in the world and ended up inviting him to church without an inkling that she was labouring for herself.  

“From a life of nothingness and aimlessness Bishop Andrew saw something in me and believed in me and this is how far the Lord has brought me.” 

Bishop Andrew Osei, Pastor of RCOA, Suva

Words of a woman who would have otherwise been wasting away in the madhouses of Suva. 

~Ismail Ben-Hadad