Hello!
As some of you know, my family is on tour and this week we are part of the We Care prison crusade. After a wonderful day of orientation and worship on Sunday we headed off to a nearby church to spend some time playing games in the gym. This is our first time to be part of this particular crusade but there are still quite a few friends, old and new, that we had fellowship with all evening! Yesterday we had our first prison service here in Alabama and it was really good! Definitely none of the "frozen chosen" there😊 Several men requested we sing "Good Ole Days" a second and third time! It was a wonderful evening all in all, witnessing as men came forward to except Christ as their Savior, singing songs of what Christ has done in us, and knowing that we are doing what we have been called to do.
Have you ever heard that our "interruptions" are often divine appointments? Well, it's a good thing to keep that in mind especially when you are doing ministry of any sort.
Our bus has had many problems on this tour already but never so bad that we couldn't make to it to our next destination. Last night after we loaded up the sound equipment on the prison yard we just could not start the bus. I mean zilch. Nada. There was nothing! We cried out to God and asked for answers as to where all these problems were coming from. After running the generator for a while it finally started and we headed down the road. It wasn't long, however, till things started beeping, lights on the control panel were blinking, and Dad couldn't shift anymore. Right as we were turning on an exit lane the whole thing stalled. So... that was fun! Let me just say how proud I am of my dad! He had been trying to figure out what was wrong with the bus all day, drove us an hour to the prison, and headed up our part in the service. It was now around 10:30 at night and as soon as the bus stalled he went out back to start fixing things as far as he knew how! Soon a police car arrived and started blocking traffic so Dad could work on the bus. Then another one came. When we finally realized it had to do with a failing battery one of the policemen called the first responders and told him that there was a "family from Canada who was ministering at the prison down here and their bus broke down." In less than five minutes the first responders came to boost the bus and it started!
In a couple minutes we were driving down the highway. Since we were trying to save the battery we turned off all the lights inside and thanked the Lord for keeping us all safe. One by one we started lifting our voices in worship. God has been so, so good to us! We are very grateful! It amazes me that we may have experiences like this, it may be a divine appointment, and we may never even know! But God does...and they're not interruptions when we trust Him.
For those wondering, the bus now has a new battery and is working correctly☺
:: For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly ::
Psalm 84:11
