Saturday was the make or break point for the team. It was the day the chilling nightmare turned reality of living with sixteen other people in the tightest quarters possible finally reached its boiling point. Nerves were tested. Tempers were tried. We were being rejected left and right on the streets of Gettysburg, and that’s if we could find people to talk to. Discouragement was at its highest. But God had some sobering planned for us. The team had gone back into town for some ice cream where we met a lady who saw us drive into town with our decals that read “Truth is Freedom”. She sought us out and found us. She took us to her museum. Her and her husband had quit everything they had to come to Gettysburg, open this museum, and become full time missionaries to the town. They had opened the U.S. Christian Commission museum. The U.S.C.C. was the group responsible for so much good during the civil war and the Battle of Gettysburg itself. They printed thousands of bibles for the troops in the war. She told us stories from the battle and President Lincoln’s life story that left tears in the room. We left the museum in amazement. God had used this couple to give us a new perspective for the trip. The city was full of so much evil. Ghost tours filled the streets of Gettysburg along with any sorcery you can imagine, but God was there. In the days of the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln was saved because he felt the presence of God so thick in the city. God is always with us even in the darkest of places. Praise God for that reminder.
-Frankie
Frankie! God is so good! Thanks for the report my friend. Through our trials the Lord certainly can show us great and mighty things. Ps 30:4 Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His,
ReplyDeleteAnd give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.[b]
5 For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for life;
Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the morning.
2 Cor 4;7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you.
We miss you all! Keep on keeping on!
Your brother Alex is doing a great job on the computer in your absence... though you are missed God is still providing all our needs.
In his service Pat Novello