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Herm and Helen
Posted by
Bob Fetherlin
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08 December 2007
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Amy, an Alliance missionary from Africa, was ministering in a C&MA Church in Massachussetts. With her was Nyagali, a believer and partner in ministry from the Alliance churches of Burkina Faso. They were excited to be visiting several Alliance churches together in the northeastern United States to report about God's work in Africa.
Herm and Helen were their hosts during the days at the church in Massachussetts. An older couple, Herm and Helen had faithfully supported Alliance work for many years. This included prayer for the Red Bobo, a people group in West Africa, asking God to bring many Red Bobos to himself.
Over a meal in Herm's and Helen's home, Herm leaned forward and asked, "What about the Red Bobo people? Is there anything much happening among them these days?"
"Oh, yes," exclaimed Amy with excitement. "In fact, Herm, Nyagali is a Red Bobo. Her father is an Alliance leader in Burkina Faso who has helped plant twenty churches among the Red Bobo people, right Nyagali?"
"Yes!" Nyagali responded with a huge smile on her face, thinking fondly of her aged father.
"What was that again?" Being hard of hearing, Herm leaned closer. Amy repeated what she had just explained, this time with increased excitement as Herb strained to catch every word. As the story became clear to him, tears welled up in his eyes. Seeing her husband's tears, Helen began to cry, too.
"Helen and I have been praying for the Red Bobo people for over forty years. A missionary by the name of Bowman came through here years ago asking us to pray for the Red Bobo. We've been praying ever since. God has wonderfully answered our prayers!" The tears now flowed freely expressing joy over what God had done. Even Nyagali was deeply touched seeing the love Herm and Helen had for her people.
What examples Herm and Helen are of faithfulness in intercession! How wonderful what God has done among the Red Bobo people, an ethnic group among whom there are now hundreds of churches and thousands upon thousands of Christ followers! How magnificent is our God!
Herm and Helen were their hosts during the days at the church in Massachussetts. An older couple, Herm and Helen had faithfully supported Alliance work for many years. This included prayer for the Red Bobo, a people group in West Africa, asking God to bring many Red Bobos to himself.
Over a meal in Herm's and Helen's home, Herm leaned forward and asked, "What about the Red Bobo people? Is there anything much happening among them these days?"
"Oh, yes," exclaimed Amy with excitement. "In fact, Herm, Nyagali is a Red Bobo. Her father is an Alliance leader in Burkina Faso who has helped plant twenty churches among the Red Bobo people, right Nyagali?"
"Yes!" Nyagali responded with a huge smile on her face, thinking fondly of her aged father.
"What was that again?" Being hard of hearing, Herm leaned closer. Amy repeated what she had just explained, this time with increased excitement as Herb strained to catch every word. As the story became clear to him, tears welled up in his eyes. Seeing her husband's tears, Helen began to cry, too.
"Helen and I have been praying for the Red Bobo people for over forty years. A missionary by the name of Bowman came through here years ago asking us to pray for the Red Bobo. We've been praying ever since. God has wonderfully answered our prayers!" The tears now flowed freely expressing joy over what God had done. Even Nyagali was deeply touched seeing the love Herm and Helen had for her people.
What examples Herm and Helen are of faithfulness in intercession! How wonderful what God has done among the Red Bobo people, an ethnic group among whom there are now hundreds of churches and thousands upon thousands of Christ followers! How magnificent is our God!
