Family in Manta Ecuador

Family in Manta Ecuador
January 2015

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Unexpected Bus Ministry

One of our very faithful Sunday School teachers had mentioned the same prayer request several Wednesday nights in a row in prayer meeting: that God would provide a means of transportation for some of the children whose parents didn't bring them to church consistently. She was thinking that maybe someone with a pick-up truck could drive around town picking some kids up for church on Sunday, or maybe God would bless her and her husband with a minivan. Juan, one of our deacons, is very faithful on Wednesday nights. He doesn't have a regular car, but often got people together on Wednesday nights to share a taxi, or occasionally he would drive his work vehicle, a water tanker truck, to church. One Wednesday, about the time to start we heard the typical rumble of an old diesel engine. "Here comes Juan," someone said, but it wasn't the tanker truck, it was a long, old bus! Several people from Juan's neighborhood climbed out. Among the thanksgiving and praises that night: Juan had a new ministry, many of the kids have a way to Sunday School now, and more people are coming along with Juan on Wednesday night. Isn't answered prayer great?

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