Expect the unexpected …

Evangelist Marilyn Harry shares four surprising encounters – from Wales to Australia – where unexpected phone calls and cafe chats led people to faith.

Marilyn got a call from Lisa out of the blue one Sunday afternoon. “I want to get hold of a Bible,” Lisa told her. “I’ve already rung 30 churches but I didn’t get a response from any of them.”

Marilyn’s organisation, Love Wales, had just started meeting on Sundays at its base in Ebbw Vale, so she invited Lisa to come straight away to collect one. After this encounter, she went on to find real faith in God. “She’s been coming to discipleship classes and got baptised in the first week of July,” said Marilyn.

“I asked how she got my number and it was on the internet. She’d left answerphone messages with all the other churches and nobody had got back to her. I just happened to answer.”

Lisa is one of 17 people who have come to know God at Love Wales in the past ten months, and one of seven who’ve just been baptised. Lisa’s story has to be a wake-up call though – have you checked your church’s answerphone recently?!

Adelaide calling

In the same week that Lisa rang, Marilyn received another call – and this one was even more unusual.

“A lady rang me, again out of the blue, and her accent stood out so I asked where she was. She was in Adelaide, Australia. She was feeling very low and was phoning from the back seat of her car,” Marilyn said.

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