A Chance Encounter or a Divine Encounter?

Anna led us at Genesis Church to sign up as volunteers at the Airdrie Festival of Lights.We manned the fire pits 2 Tuesdays in a row.

       

It was so much fun. We had the best job as volunteers. We competed with one another to see who could build the biggest fire. Mark and Anna brought Mike, their friend with them and he did a great job also.

 An amazing thing happened to me, Rob on the second night. A couple of bus loads of Chinese people came from Calgary to see the Lights. An elderly lady walked straight up to me and introduced me to her companion Hunter. She explained that he arrived from China one month before and was looking for work. He said that he was a geologist. I thought to myself what could God be up to? He must have a plan for this man because why would this lady come directly to me with Hunter? I gave him my card and asked him to email me

    

             I connected him to my friend Paul Johnson, pastor of Roots, a church for young Chinese adults in Calgary. Hunter came to church and Paul began to engage him with the truths of the Gospel via email. Yesterday I got a call from Cesar Parra. He was leading a young adult's retreat for Roots. A young lady named Xiao took a chance and invited Hunter to the retreat. Cesar put me on speaker phone in the midst of his Gospel presentation and shared with me in front of everyone that Hunter had received Jesus as Lord and Savior.

            Was it a chance encounter at the Airdrie Festival of Lights? I don't think so. Henry Blackaby points out that God is always at work around us. He invites us to become involved in His work and we come to know God by experience as we obey Him and He accomplishes His work through us. 

    I look forward to what God will do in Hunter's life and in all our lives as we pursue a personal love relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ.

Rob