Mark & Michele Hale
Missionaries to Portugal

Prayer Letter

February 2010

Dear Praying Friends,

As I read my Bible, I gradually became aware of the man leaning closer and closer. I glanced up at this stranger in the seat next to me and he asked incredulously, "Are you reading the Bible?" When I answered in the affirmative he asked, "Why?" His surprise and disbelief was clearly evident on his face.

Due to bad weather and cancelled flights, I had been in transit for 38 hours and had ended up in an airport I wasn't even supposed to be in. Exhausted and smelling like road kill, I was not in any mood to be mocked by some stranger. Needless to say, I was not at my witnessing best.

In spite of the foul tempered, foul smelling missionary, God got his message across to this young unbeliever. He had never been to church of any kind and had never read a Bible. He listened politely as I took him through the Romans Road and accepted the tract I offered. As my flight was called, he said, "There is a Baptist church right down the road from my home, maybe I will go there this Sunday..." Still exhausted and smelling like a locker room, I boarded my next flight thankful for the unscheduled journey to give the gospel to a young man who had never heard!

Thanking God for cancelled flights,

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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