This is a story from a current Squad on the field, visit this blog for the original post! http://joshandbrianarene.theworldrace.org We get incredible stories reported from the filed all the time…. this one is just amazing!
_______________________________________________________________________
As we were in the LA
airport for our layover all night, I looked for a place that got good internet
and plopped down by one of my teammates. Right after that this random
guy came over and asked us if we wanted free internet, and , who doesn’t
want free internet when the internet in the LA airport is 8 bucks.. so
we gladly agreed, and he sat down and typed in his password. We struck
up a conversation with him and he explained to us that he had been stuck
in the airport for two days because his flight kept getting delayed due
to weather.. and to make matters worse on his previous flight his
wallet had gotten stolen so he hadn’t eaten since then. We felt bad and
offered to buy him some food when McDonalds opened.
We then told him about the world race, and
what we were doing and he seemed really interested. He asked us how much
support we needed to raise, and we told him and then he said, ” well, i
don’t have my wallet, but I do have my bank account info, and I think
it’s really cool that you guys left your home to do this for your faith.
Go get some of your other teammates because I want to give around
$20,000.” Yes, thats right.. TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS! He explained to us
that he had inherited a large sum of money when he was 18 and really
felt prompted to give to us. So I ran down and woke up the squad and
explained to them that there was this 22 year old that wanted to donate
$20k. People couldn’t believe their ears, but they followed me back up
the stairs and then he had us type in the site and he donated! He fully
funded some people, and brought other peoples numbers way up! We were in
shock… Here was this kid that’s younger than some of us, that has
money, but chose to bless us with it. When does that ever happen?!?!
When God wants to bless His children!=D
We bought him McDonalds.. it was the least
we could do..lol, and then he hung out with us for the rest of our
layover. As we were leaving he began to tear up and told us that he
really saw something different in us and he could feel the presence of
God around us. We got to pray with him and asked God to continue to
open up his heart to the Truth and to His love. He wasn’t a Christian,
he told us that he was a Buddhist, but didn’t practice it.. But there
was a seed planted that night!
