“Do you remember you asked me my one wish from God…?”

“Do you remember you asked me my one wish from God on the stairway on the ship in Hong Kong two years ago? It was three in the morning and you had just arrived onboard. ‘That I would have a closer walk with God,’ I replied, and you prayed for one wish. I  have never forgotten that moment. I went to your One Wish workshop and loved it. Later I took a team to Israel and we had such encouragement in conversations using One Wish. I am bringing my whole team to your workshop.” And there smiling away with his team from Sweden in the back row was at TeenStreet in Germany this August was Daniel.

“That is the perfect name for her”

FullSizeRenderWith the Indian children holding up my One Wish flash cards, I shared the good news and come to Christ. Asked by one of the believers to baptize his wife, whose Hindu name meant ‘snake.’ and give her a new name, I clambered into the lake. Lowering her into the murky waters with the buffaloes and villagers looking on, I asked the Lord to give me a name. “Your old name is ‘snake.” Raising her up, “your new name is Martha,” “That is the perfect name for her,” the pastor chuckled, “she’s been preparing food all day for the evening meal after the gospel meeting.”

“This is my first time in a church”

62DFD33B-F01C-4697-8109-C9139D325598“This is my first time in a church,” exclaimed Jaz, walking into to this beautiful cathedral open to tourists in downtown Cardiff, Wales, “can anyone tell me what it is all about? Happily showing her with the four pictures on my wristband the good news of the gospel, this young women, flying home that day to India, came to faith in Christ. “I just feel so wonderful, so different inside.”