Oranges, Coconuts, Tangerines & Shooting Stars

Tonight we met at Karen and David Rouse's house in Longivew, WA to have dinner with some of the NW people who went to Brazil in July along with five prayer partners. There was a lot to share. Kraig Neet, pastor of Highland Baptist Center in Longview, WA had told Bert to send him to the jungle. He got what he asked for. They walked 4 miles from the house they were staying in to the church. He walked up to 10 miles a day. He shared things I want to remember. Richard, the missionary, dropped he and his interpreter, Tadashi, off with eight bottles of water and said,

"If you run out of water, put lemon juice in your water." Well, they ran out of water and were not able to get lemons, so they drank dirty water and prayed. Neither got sick. The lady of the house served cake in which the ants were still wiggling as the batter went into the oven. By the middle of the week they had eaten no fruit. One day they were eating, he said in his mind,

"Lord, we haven't had any fruit. Would you give us fruit?" He said as soon as the words left his mind, a man they were with said,

"Would you like some oranges? I can get you some oranges." Later in the day someone said,

"Would you like some coconuts?" The next day a man said,

"Would you like some tangerines?" Kraig said they were the biggest tangerines he had ever seen and tasted like honey.

On the evening walks home from the church in the darkness the Milky Way was visible from horizon to horizon. Walking home from church one night, he saw a shooting star. He told Tadashi who said,

"Oh, I've never seen a shooting star! I wish I had seen it." At that very moment a long shooting star swept across the sky.

In times of need, small things seem big, don't they?