Our friends Pieter and Loes Donkers in the Netherlands are moving house. They discovered an old box of my CDs and wondered what I wanted them to do with them. I said, “Give them away to anyone who’ll take them…. and just dispose of the rest.’😀
After receiving Paul McAree’s encouraging email last week, Pieter wrote one to me……
Hi Paul,
I distributed a number of your CD’s in our congregation, two weeks ago. Well, today the preacher took one of your songs as the base of his sermon, namely the song “We seek your presence”
He was touched by it, he told us and he wanted to use it to encourage us to seek the Lord. When he finished his sermon, he played your song on his mobile device for all of us to hear.
So I asked him if he would allow me to tell something about the composer of the song, which he did, so I told them (briefly) the story of you and your family being called by the Lord to go from Belfast to the US, the hard times you had in the beginning to support the family and what the Lord finally provided for. A story that encouraged us to seek His presence! Your CD’s still inspire!
Reminds me of Corrie ten Boom. After she came out of the concentration camp and was led by the Lord to spread the gospel, the Lord promised her that people would listen to her.
When I taught religion in high school, I used to show my wild and worldly pupils an old video of Corrie as an old lady, sitting in a chair and knitting (or something like that) and then she shares the gospel, very quietly and friendly, in English, with a terrible Dutch accent. You would think that would be utterly boring for those youngsters. On the contrary. The all listened in breathless silence. I saw the promise that God gave Corrie fulfilled through that old video.
Today I saw the ministry God gave you, working through that old CD.
Blessings,
Pieter
Again take a few minutes to ‘Sit back, relax and enjoy the journey of this song’……..with ‘those whose hearts are set on (this) pilgrimage.’ (Ps. 84)