The wife of a man in western Algeria became very sick. Her husband tried everything, taking her from doctor to doctor and nothing worked. He was advised to try sorcery, which also failed. One night he had a dream in which a man appeared to him and said, “You’ve tried everything but nothing has helped your wife get better. Only one man can help you and I will give you his number.” The man awoke and called to his son, “Hurry! Get me a pen and paper!” The son returned and his father quickly wrote the number down. Though the father had never had any contact with a Christian, the Holy Spirit gave him the number of Rachid, head of church planting and follow-up for OM Algeria. He called the number.
Rachid answered, having no clue who the man was, and listened to his story. Rachid answered, “I cannot help you but there is One who can, the Lord Jesus Christ.” He led the man to the Lord and his wife was soon healed. As of this writing, she was still opposing the gospel, but please pray that the Lord would open her heart.
Stories like this remind us of why we do what we do. As this story clearly shows, it's not about us, or even Rachid. It's about what God is doing around the world. He's drawing people to himself. We just get to be a part of it.
Although we work behind the scenes, tucked away in offices (or, for Edgar, traveling around to visit colleges), we can all still a part of the big story. Our roles at OM USA are really about inspiring more and more American Christians to action. We can all be a part of stories like this. I imagine there was a lot of prayer from all over the world behind that dream. Some can intercede for specific countries or people groups or missionaries. Some others can contribute their finances to provide for missionaries' needs or to meet physical and spiritual needs of people in other countries. Others can actually go and be at the other end of that phone call!
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