Weekly Devotional

By Max Lucado
Dependable people are like diamonds. They are precious because they are so rare. Experience and know-how are great assets, but they are not much good without trustworthiness. Talent is wonderful, but by itself its not enough. Far better to be a faithful christian. Are you? Like Timothy and Epaphroditus , are you a role model for others? Determine to be a person others can rely on. Keep your word. Show up. Be consistent. Live for others. Take risks . Be a "go to" guy or gal. Make it your goal, by God's grace, to exemplify a life of spiritual steadiness.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Meeting Francis and Harrison Olan'g




A chance meeting in a Best Buy store in New Orleans turned into a wonderful 2 days for Steve and I.
As those of you who know Steve know, he likes to talk! (slight under exaggeration lol)
He struck up a conversation with a young man in the store and through this gift of gab found out this man was from Tanzania and knows one of our friends who had been a missionary in Tanzania for many years.
We found out later that Francis' father, Harrison Olan'g, would be in the area ( flying in from Tanzania) soon so Steve asked if they would like to come up and stay with us, come to our Monday night Bible Study and then go see Roger Swann, their missionary friend. They agreed. What we didn't know at the time of the invitation, but God did, was that Roger would be recovering from unexpected bypass surgery.
When Steve took them to Rogers house he said it was so sweet to see the old friends reminisce. The "chance" meeting was for them, Harrison and Francis Olan'g and Roger Swann, we just got a blessing from it as well.
Monday night at Bible Study at Harvest, Harrison spoke on the Samaritan women. He told us that Jesus looked passed the fact that she was an adulteress and saw her heart, the heart of an evangelist. We need to look passed the outward appearance and see the potential that Christ see's. And we need to love others enough to tell them about Jesus.
Because of my husbands willingness to speak to EVERYONE ALL THE TIME we now have new friends. Pray for Harrison as he returns to Tanzania. He is a pastor and is president of the Seminary there. The seminary was Southern Baptist but just recently has become non-denominational. Pray for Francis and his family. He has finished his masters at New Orleans Baptist Seminary and is wanting to get a green card so that they can move to and stay in Texas. He works as a mental health counselor and wishes to be able to send help back to Tanzania and arrange mission trips to this same area.


The link above I hope will give you a little more information about the Olan'gs. It is a bit old but might be helpful. Go to NEWER POSTS to find the link
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