The Friends He Made

par Zacharias T. Fomum

Zacharias Tanee Fomum taught that friendship is not collaboration: it is what a greater person gives a lesser one to lift him up, as Jonathan stripped off his robe, sword, and belt to crown David, and as God lifted Abraham and called him friend. Compiled posthumously from his spoken words, this From His Lips volume shows that teaching lived out in the friendships that made him. Inside, the reader will find his account of the day God made him His friend; the story of the six pence he returned at eleven, when his pastor-father said, “As from today, I make you my friend”; his tribute to Constant Yonke, who never once murmured against him from 1989 and met every landing in Douala with a “Kumbo cup” of drink; his memories of praying with John Sentamu in Uganda; and closing testimonies from three friends—Moses Ajime Ijei, brother Gwan and Prof Peter Njoroge Kariuki—who tell what it was to walk beside him. A summons to costly, prayerful, loyal friendship—with God first, and then with men.

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