Letting God Lead
Church planting is a wonderful ministry that takes a team of dedicated Christians with a desire to share the love of Jesus with others.
To support these efforts, my wife, Ketty, and I are helping to plant the first Spanish Seventh-day Adventist church in Terrell, Texas.
We needed a church building for evangelistic meetings, so we started driving around town, praying the Lord would impress us with which church we should use.
Seeing what we felt was the perfect building, we stopped in the parking lot and prayed. No one was there, so we started knocking on neighbors’ doors to see whether anyone attended the church and had the pastor’s contact information.
Finally, we found a 70-year-old woman who had been a member of that church since she was six.
We explained what we were doing, and she gave us the pastor’s information.
Right in her living room, we called the pastor and explained the situation.
He agreed to meet us the following Sunday.
After we joined them for services, the pastor invited us to the platform to explain to his congregation what we were doing.
Later that afternoon, the pastor called and said his church voted that we could use the church for the evangelistic meetings. He concluded the call saying that he had gone that afternoon to a Hispanic family living across from his church and invited them to the evangelistic meetings.
“Knock, and it will be opened to you,” Matthew 7:7.
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Ruber Leal and his wife, Ketty, are Family Ministries directors for the Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists—ForeverOne.org. They are excited to share that the family invited by the church pastor is now studying for baptism.
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This first appeared in THE FLAME Special Miracles Issue 2019, a Texas Conference quarterly magazine. Find the entire issue at issuu.com/texasadventist.