RESCUE ON AN AFRICAN HIGHWAY

Breakdowns on African highways are scary.

Car-jackings and worse are common on the road.

Missionaries Doug and Tasha Myers were about half way into a three hour drive to Nelspruit, South Africa when their SUV broke down. In the car were Doug and Tasha (Tasha was in route to a doctor appointment to deal with a back injury--in great pain),an intern missionary lady new to Africa, Kayden (3), Kylea (6), and infant Carsten.

We just happened to be an hour behind them and by the great missionary tool called a cell phone we learned of their plight--but we were still an hour away.

Doug remembered the name of a pastor in Bad Plaas, the nearest town, and called him.
This kind pastor drove to the site, reduced their vulnerability to danger, helped Doug arrange for a tow truck and even loaned him his car to drive on to Nelspruit.

("The Ghost and The Darkness" movie was filmed at Bad Plaas, so if you've seen the movie you've seen the countryside we were in.)

We arrived and picked up Kayden and Kylea (the pastor's car was too small to carry everybody). Ben and Susan, Dave & Jean, Kayla, Levi, and Trinity squeezed together in Ben's van. We just adopted the kids for the rest of the day.

Perhaps the greatest miracle is that the auto dealer whose earlier repair job on Doug's car had gone bad gave them several hundred dollars for lodging and extra expense--and rented a van for their use until their own van was fixed. That never happens in Africa! Probably not even in America.

Why tell this? To me it is a grand example of the body of Christ in action. People of different races and different denominations and even a secular business got together and solved a crisis.

And, yes, Tasha's back injury pain is lessening.

Would you join the rescue and pray for this great young couple? Especially for Tasha's back injury.