You know you’re
in a small town when the lady at the Secretary of State’s office who sent you
off to get a driver’s test interrupts her conversation with another client to
ask, with arms spread wide, “Did we pass?!” But that wasn’t the fun part. The
fun part was the driver’s test itself. The third party with whom I happened to
have scheduled my test, taken “at random”¨* from a list of twelve testing
companies provided by the Secretary of State, turned out to be a Christian. My
car overheated during the test, which might have brought my chances of getting
a driver’s license to an end for the day, but she loaned me hers. Before we
parted there had been crying and praying and rejoicing over what God
has done and what He is going to do. Will you please pray, too, for the
Physicists’ mom, that God would tune her heart to be in perfect concert with
His own? Thanks.
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| Drex and me Gangnam style |
In
another heart-stopping meeting this week, a pastor in northern Flint, where
things are most difficult, with whom we were discussing Under One rooF (UFO),
said UFO “is where God has brought me.” He said we’ll have to use houses, of
which there is an abundance, rather than one big building, but that we’ll “ring
the dinner bell” whenever it’s time to get together. Glory! What we need now is
an existing American nonprofit to take Under One rooF under its wing, the way
the Fundação Bomfim took Serve the City Lisbon under its wing back in 2010. Would you please ask God to find us one?
Finally,
for this week, my son, Drex, turns 21 August 30, and is due to arrive at
Detroit Metropolitan Airport the following day for a long week here in Michigan
with his family. It will be the first time I’ve seen him since 2013. He’ll see other
relatives he hasn’t seen since long, long before that. Please pray his trip is
a great blessing to everyone involved and that he flies back to Seattle
September 9th with his emotional tank overflowing. Thanks again.
*The quotation marks are a reference to Proverbs
16:33: “We toss the coin, but
it is the Lord who controls its decision." In other words, there's no such thing as "at random.”
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