A Divine Connection

We regularly host teams from churches all over the U.S., and often connect with them through various friends or acquaintances, but just recently we experienced a divine connection.

A pastor at a church in California recently contacted us, and was interested in sending a missions team here in the fall. Because our internet crawls along at a snail’s pace, it’s sometimes difficult to keep in frequent contact with people, but this church was patient with our African internet.

Soon after their contact with us, the pastor shared an amazing story about how he’d found out about our ministry. The church itself is large, and has a good-sized missions program. They have missionaries going out all over the world, but recently decided that they all felt like God was calling them to Africa. A couple of the families specifically felt like the church was being drawn towards South Africa. With this exciting knowledge in their minds and hearts, they began looking for organizations with which they could send a short-term missions team to South Africa. For weeks they couldn’t find anything, and all possibilities kept falling through.

A group of them that were involved in this vision of Africa met in the pastor’s office and prayed for a door to be opened and clarity as to where they should go. Immediately afterward, the pastor went to check the church’s mailbox, and the only thing sitting in his box was a mailer from us! This was the very first time we’d ever sent out a mailer to churches that we weren’t connected with, and God utilized the opportunity at once! One line on the mailer stuck out to them instantly: Looking for a mission trip destination?

They contacted us at once with intense excitement and immediately began planning their trip to serve with us. We’re so thankful that God made that connection between the two of us, and are encouraged that there continues to be interest in the evangelization of Africa, even though fuel prices and plane tickets keep creeping upward.

4 Responses - Add yours below

1. Natalie Jane says:

   Wow!

2. Megan says:

   That’s AMAZING!

3. Paul says:

   God is good

4. sommer ellsworth says:

   wowzas that is soo cool God is awesome:) God is all sufficiant!!!!!!!

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