OMS Outreach Jan-Apr 2014 | Page 25

A few years ago, a girl we’ll call Emmi lived in a country closed to the Gospel. She would often go outside her humble country home, unbeknown to her parents, and she would look up into the evening sky and ask herself, “I wonder who made all those stars? Do they have names?” Little did she know that someone on another continent, halfway around the world, was praying for the children of that country, asking that somehow those children could learn about the Savior who loves and cares about them. With her questions still in the back of her mind, Emmi later graduated from college and began taking English lessons from a young American woman who was a Christian. She led her to Jesus, and Emmi began to have her questions answered. She also encouraged her to attend Wheaton College but knew it was very expensive. One day, she took Emmi to meet Mark, another English teacher who graduated from Morrison Academy. When the girls mentioned Wheaton, he replied, “My parents live in Wheaton, were missionaries, and speak your language fluently. You can live with them, and they will help you learn more English while you attend school.” Within a short time, Emmi arrived at Wheaton. While working on her postgraduate degree, she was able to go to many American churches to announce that due to someone’s prayers— someone she probably would never meet—she now knows who made the stars and named them. Praise him for a faithful prayer warrior who may never know their simple prayer was answered. Millions more “Emmis” live in countries where it is not safe to say the name of Jesus. Many more can see the hand of God working but have no idea whose hand it is or how to respond to the emptiness they are experiencing. It doesn’t take an army to reach these dear ones that Jesus desires as his own. It only takes one. One who will be faithful to take the time to let their hearts be broken for those who have no chance of hearing of Jesus unless God intervenes. God is faithful to those prayers. He has come to many in dreams or v