Ten days is for everyone and anyone! Just ask Cindy Williams, a then, single mom of 2 young daughters. Here’s her own words: “It was so exciting to consider the impact the trip to Latvia could have for my 13 yr old daughter and I, but disappointing as we went to the initial meetings and realized we needed to “raise” $4600. It was difficult to imagine how we could come up with that kind of money but we mustered up our faith and joined our team in weekly fasting and prayer. Unbeknownst to me, my brother and his wife had been saving money for “missions”. He got our letter and when I went to the mailbox and opened his letter, hoping for several hundred dollars, yet it was the entire $4600!!
None of us will ever forget this unpredictable moment of that trip. On our last day there, we were baptizing many young Russians and Latvians in the Baltic Sea. Looking on, was one beautiful young Latvian who had been in Cindy’s group all week and had resisted in her surrender to Christ. Upon seeing so many of her peers transformed she began to cry out to God. It was then we saw Cindy, fully dressed on the shore, come running into the sea to embrace this new child of God. She led her in a prayer of confession to Christ and right then baptized her!
None of us will ever forget this unpredictable moment of that trip. On our last day there, we were baptizing many young Russians and Latvians in the Baltic Sea. Looking on, was one beautiful young Latvian who had been in Cindy’s group all week and had resisted in her surrender to Christ. Upon seeing so many of her peers transformed she began to cry out to God. It was then we saw Cindy, fully dressed on the shore, come running into the sea to embrace this new child of God. She led her in a prayer of confession to Christ and right then baptized her!
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