Chika anyanwu biography of donald
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I used to cry when I saw nuns. I know it sounds weird, but my heart would be so moved by their natural beauty, kind smiles, and joyful dispositions that I had no other option than to ugly cry and unsuccessfully try to compose myself. When I was twenty years old, I visited a cloistered convent with my teammates from the National Evangelization Teams Ministries (NET Ministries) and was completely undone! I met a nun with braces! BRACES! I just thought that Sisters had to deal with bad teeth because braces are expensive and they take a vow of poverty. Through the grates, the Sisters laughed and whispered to one another and I realized that Sisters have inside jokes! Of course they observe times of silence, but they also live in community and actually enjoy each other’s company. And to top it off, when one of my teammates did a backflip the Sisters cheered as if their team won the Superbowl! Beyond the applause, “Ooh!” and “Aah” filled the room . . . along with my sobs!
I was a mess around these Sisters because I wanted to be one. I wanted to be the Sister so in love with Jesus that it was written on my face. I wanted to be the Sister who was willing to surrender everything to the Lord and also receive care from Him through my community. I wanted to be the S
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Chika Anyanwu to address young people on ‘healing’
Chika Anyanwu grew up Catholic, but notes it took a “come to Jesus” moment in a rapidly descending plane to make her fly high in faith.
A first generation Nigerian-American, Anyanwu was on a plane with her mother and aunt as the trio left Nigeria following a visit there some years back.
The plane seemed to be taking an unusually long time to ascend, she recalls. Suddenly it dropped rapidly, not once, but twice, before settling into a cruising pattern. Needless to say, the free falling experience frightened everyone on board, and Anyanwu remembers passengers crying from fear.
“When we landed, I pulled a Pope John Paul II and knelt on the ground and kissed it,” the 32-year-old Catholic speaker says with a slight chuckle, recalling the late pontiff’s trademark habit of greeting the various lands he visited.
Surviving the experience made her wonder why she was still so attached to this world and not really looking forward to the next, she says. Thus began a reassessment of her belief in Jesus.
“I had to ask myself, am I just living for this world or am I living for heaven?”
An English studies graduate of Cal State University in San Bernardino, Anyanwu says the event shif
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