Dependence on God through Prayer

Sue says:

The dedication at our Bible college to talking to God in prayer impresses us. Women meet to pray at 5 on Saturday mornings, students Friday nights, missions students during lunch on Tuesday, and the whole college community one morning per month.

Today was the monthly morning for prayer. The theme was "Many Parts, One Body (in Christ)".

One man gave a testimony about how he could feel the love of the community when individuals came to his bedside to pray for him after a car accident. He's back to work now.

Another told how he was having trouble doing his job at the machine shop because of shortage of parts, which he hadn't been able to find anywhere. Some Christian supporters of our school came up to help out recently, and what did they bring with them? Some of the parts that were needed. He was thanking the Lord.

Our sales manager said his department has been able to sell all we have been able to produce on our farm in the last nine months. That's an answer to prayer. He also asked us to pray that we will do well in selling against a new competitor which has a larger operation than we do and the competitor can lower prices more than we can.

Students and faculty members from different countries led us in praying for their home places. An offering will be taken this week for the relief of the hundreds of people in Samoa who have been left without homes due to the tsunami last week. (We are giving to that country because one our students is Samoan, and he can help us find a worthy organization to give through.) Prayer was also raised for the victims of floods and earthquakes in Philippines and Indonesia.

We were all touched to hear of recent gestures of two benefactors to our college. One was a team of students and faculty from Victoria College of the Bible in Australia. This team came to lead children's Bible activities during their college break a couple of weeks ago. Before they left, they decided they wanted to give us still more. They took up a collection among themselves, and they left 500 kina (about $200 US) with us.

Another was a bequest that was sent from Australia. An anonymous donor left us $500 Australian. With unusual needs as we seek accreditation and oversee other projects, we thank the Lord for sending us these unsolicited funds.

God be praised for meeting many different kinds of needs here at our Bible college by using many members of His body!