Last year I wrote about a young man named Munna. You can go back through my posts of last year to find mention of him in several of them. I'll give the brief outline of events here.
At our scheduled clinic for the day we had a fairly light attendance of about 250 people and were closing up early. Then someone told us about a Hindu man, a leader in his village, that said he would like to host us at his house for a clinic for his village. We took the opportunity and found our way to his house. He was a very cordial host and we set up stations all throughout his house and courtyard. He even went so far as to clear out his living room so we could put the eye clinic in a darkened room.
About 300 people went through the clinic that day and over 100 accepted Christ as their savior. As the clinic was winding down, a young man came to us and said there was a boy about two kilometers away that really needed to be seen by a doctor. Doctor Lynn and a few others set out to see the boy. The boys name was Munna and his knee had been operated on previously and was now about the size of a basketball. The next day we arranged to have the boy transported to a hospital. In short, it was discovered that he had bone cancer and the leg had to amputated. A few months later the cancer spread to the boys lungs. Before he died last July, Munna was baptized by the young man who had first brought Munna to our attention.
Flash forward to today and Tom and Charles were at a house doing a bible study with some new believers when a man came to the house on his bicycle. Tom didn't immediately recognize him but Charles did. He was the Hindu man who volunteered his house for our clinic a year ago. Upon seeing Tom he said, in broken English, "You and I are brothers in Christ!" It turns out that after our clinic in his home he and his entire family came to Christ and now his home serves as a church for the village.
To bring this story full circle, the young man that brought Munna to our attention is Uttam, the man that New Hope is financially supporting for a year in his duties as supervisor of the follow-up workers in the area.
All of this serves as a great reminder that it is simply our job to plant the seeds. God will make them grow. I don't know if our Hindu host ever sat through one of our gospel presentations the day of our clinic, but some how at some time he did, and it was most likely the result of his hosting our clinic that day.
It also serves as verification that even the smallest of events and decisions can have eternal consequences. Had we decided not to move the clinic and if Uttam had not decided to seek us out, Uttam would not have come to the attention of e3. He wouldn't have been hired as a coordinator for the volunteers, a job that he is doing extremely well and one that is critical in the long term success of Christianity in this region of Assam.
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