The Good That We Do

 

My son and daughter-in-law gave me a program called StoryWorth for my birthday. I have loved it! Every week for a year I write a personal story, submit it to the site, they store it, and print all the stories in a book when I am done. (If you want info, let me know.) So here is a story that I want you to hear...

 A few of you will remember that shortly after Brant and I were married in December, 1996 (25 years this December), we filled in for missionaries who had to come home from English speaking churches. We were privileged to help with churches in Italy, Fiji, Grand Cayman, Newfoundland, Germany, and England. Most of our stays were between three and six months. That was before he became European Director, which included visiting our 125 missionaries in Europe and also carrying on the Bible ministry for BIMI.

Brant often would tell these missionaries: “The good that we do...we may never know!” But he encouraged them that “we are on your side” and to stay faithful to what God had called them to do. How true this statement proved to be for Brant!

While we were in England, a pastor in Wales contacted Brant who knew Brant and his family years before when they were planting a church in the UK. He told Brant that a man in his church, Graham Morris, had told him that when Graham was a twelve-year-old boy, an American pastor had spoken at a Good Friday service in Wales. Graham said as he left the church, Brant Holladay (the young American pastor) asked him if he were a Christian and gave him a tract. Graham went home and received Jesus as his Saviour. Brant never knew that until our trip to Wales in 1998.

By then, Graham, a very prosperous farmer there in Wales, had been married and he and his wife had teenaged children... And Pastor Peter told us that Graham was also a faithful Christian, serving as a deacon in his church.

Graham and his family invited us over to Wales for an afternoon service. He had cleaned out a big part of his barn and had tea for us and invited Brant to speak.

 

But before that, Graham told the people the outline Brant had preached that service when Graham was a twelve-year-old lad. Brant’s message so many years ago had been “Behold, the Lamb of God.” What a wonderful encouragement! Children who are saved can grow up to be godly men and women :-). Sometimes we never know the good we do. So, teacher, AWANA worker, mother, dad, grandparents...don’t overlook those little ones. They really will grow up someday and we want to influence them for the Lord as much as possible.  

Matthew 19:14: But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”

 --Maylou Holladay