As I was walking in Beijing China on one of our mission trips to transport Bibles into the underground churches, I was approached by two young Chinese girls who attended the University and needed to practice their English. So we began a conversation. [Little did I know that this was my day of destiny and it had already begun as God was presently making provision.]

Immediately a Chinese lady walked up, looked me in the eyes and said, “Are you the woman?” God had already provided my interpreters, so I asked them what she said. They explained and I replied, “What woman?” She continued, “The one who brings Bibles to China and gives them away?” At that moment my heart froze. Being a PK…preacher’s kid, I knew the gravity of the situation. China is full of fear, and especially for someone who is there smuggling Bibles into the country! All my life I heard stories of missionaries, as well as locals in countries all over the world being tortured or killed for their testimony and belief in God. Fear started to grip me. How did I know who she was? She could be a Chinese undercover agent! But yet the question she asked me made time stand still in my life. This was my time, my date with destiny, and my moment to “give an answer of the hope that lied within me.” I Peter 3:15 Suddenly I looked back into her eyes, and as I handed her a Bible I said, “Yes, I am that woman.” Those words I spoke were “not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the Lord.” Zec. 4:6

She began to jump up and down, looking up to heaven, kissing the Bible and talking to me fast and furious. My interpreters began explaining to me what she was saying. She said, “Oh, Praise God, thank you Jesus, thank you, thank you, thank you!” She explained that she had prayed for 11 years asking God to send her a Bible. [If you don't know, Bibles are illegal in China] A few weeks prior to this day while she was praying, the Lord told her to go Beijing China on this particular day, time, and place, and there would be a woman there that would give her a Bible. She said she lived in Mongolia which is a 1000 miles from Beijing. That she had ridden buses, walked, and did whatever she had to do to get to this exact spot on this exact day, and God had rewarded her and given her a Bible. Once again she looked directly in my eyes, held the Bible up close to my face and said, “You have not given me a book, you have given me LIFE!“ 

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