God's Awesome Answer to Prayer

I am totally blown away by God.  He has such cool plans and puts them into action before I even know what is going on.  Then when the time is right He opens the gift box.  Out of it bursts and explosion of wonder and awe that I can hardly contain myself at His wonderful greatness and how He showers me with it. 

Pastor Jim started a prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings.  Last night was our second one.  He started it because he went to a prayer conference in Ashville NC and came back impressed that we needed to begin a prayer ministry in our town.  Last night we had a wonderful prayer time and laid ourselves open and repentant before God.  We put our church school on the alter of prayer and asked God to bless it because our finances were drying up and we needed money to keep going.

This morning at 7:20 I received a call from Pastor Jim.  He wanted me to put the speaker on so that he only had to tell this story once.  He was weeping.  He related how he had met a man "David" on the airplane when he went to the prayer conference.  This man developed some equipment or software for Emergency Care facilities and was the founder of his company.  Jim apparently shared with him that he was a pastor, about some of the things he was doing in his home church, and that he was going to this conference.  They parted when the plane landed and Jim thought probably would never see or speak to David again.

This morning when Jim was in his morning visit with God he prayed for the school again and felt impressed to get in touch with David.  Now our pastor literally hates fund raising with a passion.  He hates to even ask his church to give.  But he felt the "noose" around his heart pulling him to call David so with trepidation he made the call.  Unbelievably David was just coming out of a meeting and took Jim's call.  Jim apologized for what he was about to ask but felt moved by the Spirit to make the call.  David answered with, "Why are you afraid to ask.  You deprive people of the blessing of giving." This response amazed Jim.  He didn't expect it at all. Breathing a prayer for help on how to present this Jim explained about our school and our program. David was so moved he donated $1,000.  Jim was floored.  He couldn't believe how God had set this up and how God provided.  He broke down and cried.

Jim got on the phone and called us. What an explosion of encouragement.  What a faith builder.  I had often wondered how God was going to make this school work.  This event let me know that what we are doing to keep our school open and vibrant to provide Christian education to the San Luis Valley is absolutely the right thing because it is God's thing.  We are just His instruments through whom He gets His work accomplished.

If you feel impressed to give to our school our goal is $10,000 this year.  But maybe we shouldn't have put a limit.  We feel the need to build a new school building, but we must do this in God's time.  We want our school to grow and it is.  God has blessed it for many years.  You may make your donation to

Sunshine Christian School

315 Craft Drive

Alamosa, CO   81101

If you have questions please call 719-589-2557 and our teacher will direct you to the best resource.  If you can't give, pray.  As you can see prayer is HUGE!!!! And God's answers are even BIGGER!