Another story from our week of mission

Here’s another of the many stories from our recent missions week with a team of American students.

On the Tuesday we felt God prompting us to go into a local housing estate. We wondered around praying for a few people, but we all felt a bit discouraged at how quiet things were compared to the previous day. Two of the team were just about to call it a day when they felt God draw their attention to a certain house. They knocked on the door and asked the lady who answered if they could pray for her. She began crying and said that her husband had died a few weeks before. The team spent the rest of the afternoon listening to her story and praying with her.

The next day someone gave the team an undelivered bouquet of flowers to use. We initially thought it’d be a good idea to separate the flowers and hand them out on the streets. But as we prayed a number of us felt God saying to give the flowers to the lady we’d met the day before. So two of the team went back to her house and told her that Jesus wanted to give her the bouquet. She began crying and told us that it was the day of her 40th wedding anniversary and her husband’s birthday! Again the team was able to spend the afternoon praying with her. God’s perfect timing!