How do you find an unsung hero?
My team has spent part of our time this month looking for those men and women who are serving the Lord without achieving fame among men. However, the latter qualification often hampers our ability to find them. This last week I met someone who embodies this.
After asking friends and family at home if they knew anyone in El Salvador, I had three different people give me the same name – George. I tried to get ahold of him through several mediums, but did not hear anything. I was about to give it up as a lost cause, when I opened an e-mail from him.
At the last minute, God brought all the details together to allow my team and I to visit with George. Talking with him revealed a passion for the Lord and a passion for people. His current situation is not the one that he envisioned for himself. However, he gives glory to God and recognizes that directly in the middle of God’s will. “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” Regardless of circumstances and despite our inability to see it, God has a plan.
God has truly provided in amazing ways both in George’s personal life and in his ministry. He has a small congregation, but they needed a place to worship. God provided. Next door to his house was the bar that his mother owned. Gangs, fights, and all sorts of craziness happened there regularly. After a particularly bad night, George prayed for God to make this place into a church. That God would do a work in this building. The next day, his mother told him she was closing the bar. She told him to take the building and turn it into a church. A building that used to house fights, now houses children laughing and learning. God provides.
I would encourage you to pray for George, his family, and his church. It is a young ministry that faces obstacles, but God is working. God is using his people to change lives in El Salvador.
