| The only answers she got were shrugging shoulders and shaking heads. After two years of fruitless attempts, she became discouraged and asked less and less often.
Hopeful answer
One day she happened across a seven-year-old girl. After playing together for a while, Jala remembered the question—with no hope of an answer, she asked anyway. This new girl said yes! Jala could not believe her ears. The younger girl had been learning about Jesus at her Bible Club. "Would you like to come with me to learn about Jesus?" she asked. Jala went to the Bible Club with the little girl and sat in rapt attention when the teacher talked about Jesus. This Bible Club was a part of a church planted by a Bible League-trained worker.
Let the little children
Jala faithfully went to the Bible Club where she came to know Jesus. Today Jala is 20. She is one of the first class of Bible League-trained church planters that can speak her ethnic language. There is virtually no Christian presence among this ethnic group. She will return to the region of her birth to establish a church so that children there won't have to wait for years to learn about Jesus. |