Long Leopard
October 1st, 2006 | 
Author: No, it is not a rare species of cat in east Africa. Long and Leopard are two very special names to us. Each refers to a different Sunday School class at our church. This morning, we had the opportunity to give a presentation to both classes. The schedule was tight as the Long class is at Main Campus @ 9:15am and the Leopard class is at North Campus @ 10:30am.
The Long presentation had to be kept to a minimum but we were so encouraged just in that short amount of time we were there. Before our time came to get up in front of the class of about 40 people, they went through announcements and updated their common prayer list. We saw each person whip out their own sheet, most of which had been in their possession for a couple of weeks at that point, and make updates to the recent requests. It was beautiful. It was family.
So, the point came for us to pass out the invitations to partnership and the first thing that was said in response was the teacher saying, "Well, Jonathan, y'all are going to be on that (pointed to someone's sheet) prayer list from now on." I'm not scared to say that I about started crying right there on the spot! That means so much to us to have such a group supporting us with their prayers.
The Leopard class had arranged for us to have the entire period to do our presentation so we did a demonstration with them using two foreign Bibles, one Arabic and one Hawaiian Pidgen. The class responded very well and presented us with a card at the end. EVERY person in the class had signed the card before that day when most met us for the first time. Also, they had taken up an offering to give us. It was a substantial amount of money and it set Dana and I in awe.
God keeps on doing things like this as we go into each new day as missionaries. He is good.
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Romain.
Romain – our pleasure! (you are welcome/de rien)
All – Romain is a new friend of ours from eastern Congo. He just moved to the States a few months ago and is in the process of becoming fluent in English so he can obtain work in his field of expertise – Economics. He has his master’s and is currently working on a doctorate with a professor in Paris and one in Cote d’Ivoire. He speaks 4 languages – Swahili, Kiswahili, French and English.