A ROCKY FOUNDATION

         Missionaries working near Bali were greatly elated when the wife of the Rajah accepted Christ. She heard the gospel away from her native land and got converted. Her ten year old son was born almost blind and the local doctors thought that it was impossible for sight to be gained through operation. The missionaries saw an opportunity to reach the heart of Rajah through a successful operation. They looked for an eye specialist and found one Makassar who was a Christian.   They brought Rajah, his wife and son to Makassar for the operation. The missionaries called upon God to help the doctor in the very delicate and nearly impossible operation. Before the boy who was by now a believer was operated on he asked the doctor to let him pray first.   He said “I am now a Christian and I know God will help me”. The missionaries prayed throughout the time the operation was going on. God answered their prayers, the operation was successful. The boy’s ...

  Franklin Graham, the eldest son of Billy Graham, has devoted his life to meeting the needs of people around the world. He serves as President and CEO of Samaritan's Purse. For years, Samaritan’s Purse has done the utmost to follow Christ’s command by going to the aid of the world’s suffering. This in turn earns them an opportunity to share the gospel. Under his leadership, Samaritan's Purse has met the needs of poor, sick, and suffering people in more than 100 countries.   In one such mission Franklin visited Angola and wrote about his experience in his book ‘ ”Living beyond the Limits”. I met Dr. Steve Duncan in the early eighties while speaking at a mission conference in Florida. He was a skilled surgeon, earning enough money to buy anybody’s version of the great American dream. Instead all he talked about was taking the gospel to Angola a country that at the time was in the throes of a vicious and ugly civil war. “Franklin” Steve challenged me “when I get to Angola ...

  George Verwer, the founder of Operation Mobilization, tells of a time when he was about 19. He heard a man deliver a powerful sermon. It moved Verwer to rededicate his life to Christ. He went up to talk with the man at the end of the service. As he stood there, he noticed all of the church people in their expensive clothes. He also noticed that the speaker was very well dressed, exuding an aura of success. He asked him whether he thought that these people would respond to the message of giving everything for Christ. He speaker looked down at Verwer and said, “See here, young man, I’m an evangelist, and this is my living. This is how I make my money, by preaching and doing God’s work. What I was speaking about, that was all true, but I doubt if anyone would really live that way, unless perhaps there was a war on.” Verwer walked away feeling very shaken. In the first Church God was very real, Christ was exalted and the Holy Spirit was moving in a powerful way.   But, Satan...