“THERE’S A MAN OUT THERE GOING TO COME INTO THE HOUSE!”

Joyce (a Swazi employee) “just happened” to look out the open back door at our daughter’s home here in Swaziland. It was night before last after nine o’clock.

She saw a man crouched down at the patio about to come into the house.

Joyce screamed for me to come and the intruder ran off.

Jean and I were watching our three grandkids there waiting for Ben and Sue to get back from a ministry trip into South Africa.

There has been a marked increase in night-time break-ins when people are actually in the home. The intruders’ intent is robbery plus terrorizing the people and brutally attacking them. Some of our friends have just been through this—one man and his mother were hacked on their heads with big knives—dozens of stitches.

The police answered our call (unarmed and without even a flashlight), Ben and Sue arrived and we checked out the premises.

Their two Boerbull dogs had been poisoned. (The dogs are recovering well.)

The electric fence and alarm had been cut.

This was a well planned job—but God had a bigger plan!

Please let this event encourage you to pray for your missionaries’ safety on the field. I tell our family and staff, “The safest place to be is in God’s will.” It is true and God keeps proving it over and over—but that doesn’t mean we live uncautiously with no regard for the safety of our families.

“He gives His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways.” Psalms 91:11

So glad to report, “GOD DID IT AGAIN!”