Onesimos Nesib, translator, evangelist to the people of Ethiopia (1855-1931)
Onesimos was captured by slavers at an early age and was owned by eight different masters until bought and freed by a Swedish Lutheran family while in his early teens. Converting to Christianity he become a Lutheran missionary and translated the Bible into the Galla language.
Almighty and everlasting God, we thank you for your servant Frumentius, by whom your Church was first planted in Ethiopia, and for your servant Onesimos Nesib, whom you called to minister to the Galla people of Ethiopia. Raise up in this and every land evangelists and heralds of your kingdom, that your Church may proclaim the unsearchable riches of our Savior Jesus Christ; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
