MINISTRY / When God is the travel agent

Amazing events occur because God is the ultimate travel agent. 

316NOW's liaison, our ambassador between the US part of our ministry and the Chinese part of our ministry, told me today about a trip he recently made for us.  

Unsuccessful meetings

Our liaison has been trying for several months to meet in person with one of our students. Scheduling conflicts and China's travel restrictions disrupted those plans.  

But God created a workaround. 

A haven-planned meeting

Our liaison was visiting a group of our students in a city multiple hours away from his home. Unknown to him, God arranged for the student he wanted to meet to travel to that same city on business. Even better, he arranged for this student to stay at a hotel two blocks away from where our liaison was meeting with other students. 

So, they were both in the same city a few minutes walk from each other. But neither man knew that.

That's when God used yet another student. When that student learned that both men would be in the same city at the same time, she reached out to them to urge that they get together.

Not only was our liaison able to meet with this student, but the student was also able to meet other Christians in that city who study with 316NOW. 

Not a coincidence

This seems like a fortuitous coincidence. But we recognize the Spirit's hand in coordinating these travel plans -- and we praise him for it.

Jim Aderman / Executive Director