We love our sending church-Providence Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC. When we were first married, we settled in Raleigh for Brent to attend Southeastern Seminary and we attended Providence and were deeply involved in their life classes. We have felt so loved and supported by this church over the past 16 years of serving in Botswana.
The past 2 years, Providence has brought University students on their spring break to come and serve alongside of us in Botswana. They served in so many amazing ways from youth group at Gaborone Baptist Church, teaching Sunday School, evangelism, VBS kids program, University of Botswana outreach, and Fusion high school program. Nearly 400 people heard the gospel during evangelism or large group settings and 22 people chose to follow Jesus.
On one of the evangelism mornings, one student was able to share the Gospel with two men who were sitting in their yard. These men didn’t have any work and their circumstances were pretty rough. It was easy to look around at their surroundings and have a seed of doubt that sharing the Gospel was going to mean anything to them. BUT GOD worked in their hearts. According to one of them this was the first time in his whole life he had heard the Gospel- what Jesus did for him on the cross. They asked such deep questions that showed how much they were thinking about this, “what is sin? what would I be repenting from?” One said, “now that I have heard this, I know that I am lost.” They heard that choosing Jesus wasn’t going to be easy and that following Christ requires us to give up the things of this world, and they were ready to commit their lives to Christ. After praying to receive the gift of life Jesus has offered us, we gave them each a Bible. The team was able to explain to them what the Bible really is, how to read it, and where to start reading. After we left, we look back at the men sitting in their yard, and they already started reading their Bible. Our hearts melted to see that. They were already eager to read what we just showed them. We went home praising and thanking God for what He has done in their lives. On Sunday morning, the two men walked into church, with the Bibles in their hands and in their nicest clothes. Please join us in prayer for these men and all of the others who heard about Jesus this week.
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