Changi Chapel

In our childhood, when our Father and Mother were in the early years of their work, establishing a Mission to send the Gospel to the interior of South America, we received our first practical lessons in faith. Our parents were then living by faith and several times Mother showed us a – penny, the last in her purse, telling us that she did not know where more would come from but that she knew the Lord would be faithful to provide. And then we would see the provision come.

One winter in Scotland she asked the Lord for a Shetland shawl. Some time later a lady called at the house with a bundle under her arm. She was unknown to any of us but told us she was a domestic servant and one of God’s children, and that the Lord had put it on her heart very definitely to knit a shawl for our Mother. When she opened the bundle, there was a lovely hand-knitted Shetland shawl. How that humble handmaiden of the Lord rejoiced when she found that, all unknown to her, she had been used to answer our Mother’s request to God.

We tell this because of the effect it had upon our own life. It was an experience of priceless value that made an impression that could never be lost and that has borne its inevitable fruit. Such things lift the veil and show us God’s hand directly at work.

Alexander R. Hay
Pastor/Bible Teacher/Author (and importantly a Missionary Kid!)