Sometimes things happen that truly amaze us! They shouldn't, we should expect things like this; when God is involved, but somehow we still don't. Let me start by saying that when we moved, one of our goals was to move closer to a certain village that was unreached. It is a village where there are no evangelical churches present. We want to see if we can try and start a small group there and see what God will do. However, since we didn't know anyone in this village we weren't exactly sure how we were going to do this. Greg took a trip there one day to meet with the village president and see how we could help them. They talked about our shoe ministry, about some blankets and food that we had to give away to some of the more needy families, and some other things that we knew we could do to help the community. All of these things were offered as a way to gain the communities good will and then hopefully we would be allowed into some homes to share Jesus. After the meeting, Greg was on his way to his truck feeling pretty good about how the meeting went when he saw a store selling baskets. He knew I was wanting some baskets for our house so he decided he would check them out.
When he went into the store he saw the exact same Bible that he has on her desk in her store. (Now this Bible isn't really a common type of Bible to have here.) He asked her if she liked to read the Bible and she said she did. She said sometimes it wasn't always easy to understand but that Bible seemed to make it a little bit easier. She then said her friend had given her the Bible. That is when Greg found out that the friend who gave her the Bible had gotten the Bible from him(Greg). We had received a box of Bibles from a church in the US and our friend had asked for one to give to a lady who had interest in reading the Bible. This lady lived an hour away from where we lived. She told Greg she would like to have us come back and share some Bible stories with her in her home. So that is what we are planning to do. It is so awesome to see how God moves. He had this planned almost a year before we ever moved or even planned to work in that village. God truly is amazing!
