Monday, February 23, 2015

The Encouragement I Needed


Serving the Lord through the ministry of GRN is a privilege.  It is something that I, Stacy, feel the Lord has called me to do.  But my primary function at GRN is to distribute recordings, mostly by CD, to people in their heart languages.  I am often asked what happens after the CDs are handed out and I typically reply, “Many times we will not know until we get to heaven.”  There are many stories of people, and sometimes whole villages coming to Christ from the recordings, but none that I know I have been directly involved in.  I feel like the Lord has called me to do my part and remember that the growth is His.  So, when I got a nugget of encouragement while serving in the Culiacan Project I was overjoyed.  Juan, a Spanish pastor in the Los Angeles area, shared a testimony with our team one morning.  He told us of how he had gone to three churches in California to share about the Culiacan ministry.  He showed many pictures of the Project to the congregation.  Highlighted in the pictures were people from the Culiacan Project teams serving in the camps.  One of those people was a tall white man named Kent Wistrand.  Kent or Quentin as they called him, was easy to remember as he looked quite differently from the others.  People shared how they came from working the fields of Culiacan and Quentin and those teams shared the gospel in their camps.  Now, as a result, they were plugged into Christian churches right in California.  The encouragement here was to keep doing what you are called to do.  You may not see the fruit now, but it will be a beautiful celebration when you do!

Quentin (Kent) and Elizabeth

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