Evangelistic meeting
At the Bonnyville small group, one of our pre-Adventist friends shared her burden for her husband who was not religious at all. I prayed with her and encouraged her to pray daily for her husband. She did. She even brought him to church one Sabbath but he seemed entirely disinterested.
Toward the latter part of our small group experience, he had a dream where Jesus stretched out His hand towards him. As he touched the hand of Jesus in the dream, he remembered feeling at peace. He described feeling a warmth he had never felt before. He started coming to the small groups as well. During our evangelistic series, he faithfully attended every evening, even one night when his wife could not make it. The meetings started 6:30 pm nightly but he was always there half an hour early.
He is already testifying at work that Jesus and the Bible changed his life and he can no longer work on Sabbath. He is even offering to mow the lawn with his boys next summer and looking for ways to be involved in church.
The second story from the Bonnyville small group is that of Daniele. She came on the first night when we did the lesson on “Voices from Beyond the Grave – Can the Dead Speak to Us?” After the Bible study, she gave a very emotional testimony about how she had been struggling to come to terms with her uncle’s death for the past several years. She had spoken to many counselors, but she was still battling with her grief. As she listened to the study, it gave her so much comfort and peace to know that her uncle is at rest, and she is no longer suffering nor observing her struggle with grief from an afterlife. She left the meeting feeling as if a heavy burden of grief was lifted from her shoulders.
Church members sitting at tables in the overflow room because the sanctuary was full.
Small group
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