It was 1903, and Apache leader Geronimo staggered into a Dutch Reform Church at Ft. Sill, OK, where he was being held as a prisoner of war. He was injured after falling off a horse. The church pastor prayed for him and then baptized him. For the next few years, he proclaimed his new-found faith.
It’s not clear that his conversion was real. He was kicked out of the church for gambling in 1908.

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