{"id":6761,"date":"2011-03-12T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"pray-for-beka-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6761","title":{"rendered":"Pray for Beka in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our friend Beka is in Africa for a couple of weeks and I’m sure she would appreciate all the prayers she can get.\u00a0 She works as a journalist for One Mission Society in Greenwood, Indiana, and they have her on a journey to get a closer\u00a0look at some of the ministries attached to OMS in Africa. I got to know Beka when she joined our church’s mission team to Haiti back in October.\u00a0 We have thoroughly\u00a0enjoyed getting better acquainted with her ever\u00a0since.\u00a0 She is a favorite of the whole family – especially The Princess (age 4)! Anyway, a day or two ago, on her way to Africa, Beka\u00a0had hardly left the Washington, D.C. airport before God pulled her into a conversation with a Muslim man on the airplane as they flew to Brussels.\u00a0 Take a moment and read her account of that conversation<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 And you might want to\u00a0bookmark her page and check back\u00a0over the next few days.\u00a0 I am anticipating that Beka will have many more good stories to tell.\u00a0 Stories worth hearing. Speaking of stories worth hearing, if you are encouraged by current stories of miraculous healing which sound as if they were ripped right out of the Bible, I encourage you to check out Matt and Stacey Ayars’ blog.\u00a0 They work with OMS at the Emmaus Seminary in Haiti (and I hope to\u00a0have the privilege of\u00a0working in some way with this Seminary once our family gets to Haiti long term).\u00a0 Anyway, to fully appreciate this story, you need to be familiar with the back-story first from a couple of weeks ago about a small community gripped by voodoo – just 15 minutes walk from the Seminary – and the bold students who have sought to introduce those villagers to Jesus Christ.<\/a>\u00a0 Then catch up on what happened recently on a return visit<\/a>. These are stories that will bolster your faith. UPDATE:\u00a0 Shockingly, the woman died the next day<\/a>.\u00a0 From our limited human perspective,\u00a0her death\u00a0would certainly seem to cast doubt on the miraculous nature of her healing the previous day.\u00a0 Lots of people are in turmoil over this sequence of events – in the village and at the seminary –\u00a0and it remains to be seen what God will draw out of it all.\u00a0 I will be curious to see how it plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friend Beka is in Africa for a couple of weeks and I’m sure she would appreciate all the prayers she can get.\u00a0 She works as a journalist for One Mission Society in Greenwood, Indiana, and they have her on a journey to get a closer\u00a0look at some of the ministries attached to OMS in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6762,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/6762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}