I've seen the doc!

It started about 4 years ago when a woman in her late thirties had a friend in such trouble that she had no idea how to help him. She went onto the Internet, sifted through options and found an American Christian healing programme, which sounded like it had possibilities. She could find no evidence that it was run in NZ.

What would you do?

She went to a local Christian bookshop, bought something small and asked the girl that served her if she had ever heard of this particular programme. “You should talk to my Mum,” said Jo and gave her my phone number.

It was a programme I was involved in at that time so we connected, spent time together, her and her teenage son came to Church and eventually, one very special evening our Pastor and I baptised her. She grew in her Christian understanding with a real commitment to the Scriptures and seeing the value of a life lived for God for both her son and herself.

Two years ago they shifted to Australia for her work and hoping for a new beginning for them both.

If you have been to Opawa for more than 2 years you will know whom I am talking about. On Wednesday we spent 2 hours together catching up. Josh is a fine, tall, slimmed down young man with a friendly outgoing manner. Not so long ago he was baptised in the sea near Sydney. He is in the worship team, has a scholarship to a school in Sydney where he is excelling in acting/performance. He is doing well.

His Mother is radiant in her service for God, facing many difficulties as a woman of her strong character sometimes does but living close to God through it all. They were asking about Opawa and were sorry they weren’t here for a Sunday; THEY SAY HI!

In your everyday life you never know when your next contact will have the fingerprint of God all over it. God can lead seeking people across our pathway without any effort on our side we just need to be faithful to Him ~ and that’s not so hard is it?