Hi All,
From: Gary and Chris
Atkins [mailto:corg.atkins@...]
Sent: 22 August 2009 20:20
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Subject:
Thanks so much for all your prayers. We are safely
home having had a fantastic trip. We were blessed by the whole experience
and Godwas good to us. we all remained healthy until one had a little
upset tummy on the plane home! We made new friends. We helped with
building and found out how important time is in any relationship.
I visited with others in the team a lady and her family from
the church. She opened our meeting in her home with thanks for my visit
to her home 3 years ago. She said I had blessed and encouraged her to be
strong after the death of her husband. She told me the words I spoke and
prayed had remained with her and given her strength for the past 3 years and
there I was again to visit her in her home.
We do not know the power of the words we speak. They
are in God's hands. He uses them for his purposes. I had forgotton the
visit to her home and certainly what I had said but she hadn't. We have a
great big God and He uses us despite our failings, in spite of our
weaknesses.
Never underestimate the word you speak or the time you give
to another person. It may help to sustain them and encourage them and
give them strength for the future!
Thanks for your prayers. The team were great and the
time was a blessing to us all. My prayer is that the time we gave and the
words we spoke, prayers we prayed will be a blessing to our friends in the
community we have left behind
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