Mark & Michele Hale
Missionaries to Portugal

Prayer Letter

July 2010

Dear Praying Friends,

The elderly man driving the car in front of me suddenly swerved and slammed on his brakes as his car filled with a white powder. I veered to the side of the road as he brought his car to a halt on the shoulder ahead of me. Rushing up to him, I could see his air bag had deployed for no reason. His glasses were shattered and had gouged his face deeply. Blood gushed from his smashed nose and from his mouth due to a partly severed tongue.

The man was dazed, in pain and couldn´t see because of the blood in his eyes, so I helped him find his cell phone and call his son. While waiting for his family to arrive, we brought his bleeding under control as I talked with the man about the Lord and the uncertainty of life.

His son soon arrived and we transferred the injured driver to his car. The son looked at me with my church clothes and blood splattered rubber gloves and asked, “Are you a doctor?” “No” I replied, “I am the pastor of Windward Side Baptist Church in Lagos.” “You are a Baptist pastor?” he asked surprised. “Well, thank you for caring for my father!” With that, they rushed to the hospital as I continued home from Sunday services.


We just never know how or when God is going to give us another opportunity to witness!

Now leery of air bags,

Mark Hale

"Praying always   ... for all saints and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Gospel."    Ephesians 6:18-19

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