SR • January 2016
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FOCUS on Missions
Clinton R. Brown
Executive Director
lives. The locals told us they had regularly been
to churches, but were instructed as to what to
believe and had never studied and discussed the
Word of God as we were doing. By the time our
vehicle became serviceable again, some of the
locals had shared contact information with our
lead pastor and expressed a desire for him to
arrange a time that he could come back and work
with them in studying the Bible and following
Jesus.
We went on our way, with me feeling that my
suspicions were confirmed that this had been an
appointment, not merely an inconvenience. It
reinforced my conviction that I need to be watch-
ing for opportunities to be available for the world
to better understand my Savior, especially when
something in my life is askew or my plans are not
working out. If God is bothering to interrupt my
life so that I can participate in His plans, I want to
be an alert servant and not deafened to His
promptings by my own grumbles.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
— Psalm 139:16
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