A miracle at Best Buy!

Don was tidying up the files on his computer and realized he needed a new hard drive in order to store his excess videos. He could have waited as it wasn’t that urgent, but for some reason (we all now know why!) Don felt moved to go out immediately to buy one. He quickly looked online first and ordered the drive he needed, to pick up at the closest Best Buy to our hotel. As Don was lining up at the store counter, he got chatting with a young guy (Terrence) who’d driven to this particular store from over 40 minutes away. He normally would never drive this far south to go to a Best Buy, but because his local store had mistakely told him they had in stock what he needed, Terrence was forced to drive to a different Best Buy. He had considered forgetting about it all given that he’d already used up a large part of his day. But, he was determined to achieve his goal (he later told us), so he headed to the Best Buy where Don had reserved his hard drive.

As Don got talking with Terrence while they both waited in line, Don shared that he was in the middle of backing up his video footage, most of which was from our Christian ministry work. This immediately intrigued Terrence, and so began a long and very fruitful conversation about the Lord. I was out for a walk at the time, and suddenly Don phoned me to say he was with someone who wanted to get water baptized and pray for the Holy Spirit anointing, and that the guy’s fiance (a platonic relationship) would want to be water baptized, too. So, our whole family stopped what we were doing and gathered together to drive north, to meet up with the young couple.

It was such a blessed evening. We met at the community pool area to chat first. We shared a lot of scriptures, and stories from our God-directed travels and encounters with all kinds of church-goers and even unbelievers. Both of them ended up getting water baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues. In fact, Terrence got born again first, and then Don helped him to water baptize and pray with Olivia, to encourage Terrence and to show him that someone’s own born again experience gives him/her full authority from God to go and do for others what God sent us to do for them. That’s the Book of Acts, empowered Christian life that we preach and demonstrate as God continues to use us for His work!