It is clear that we never have the full picture of what God is doing. A story from Cal, staff of the ACF chapter at Washington U, gives one example of this.
“One of my alum, Jennifer, just told me a story from two or three years ago. While we were on a Discipleship Roadtrip to connect with people at Missouri S&T, she met a international student from East Asia who had family in the Bay area. Since Jennifer is originally from the Bay they swapped contact info and haphazardly planned to meet up when they were both home.
Jennifer forgot about this interaction and finished her semester. When she gets home she randomly remembers this student exists and decides to text her. They grab coffee and chat and Jennifer invites her to church with her the next day. Jennifer thought she had never been to church before though she tells Jennifer she actually had been to that church before! She shares with Jennifer that her aunt’s family lives in the Bay and are strong Christians and have been praying for her family’s conversion for years.
Jennifer invites her to a church young adult event the next week and at the event the girl accepts Christ! What a random awesome story! Now Jennifer is going to go be a missionary in East Asia!! Crazy amazing stuff 🙂 Praise God for discipleship road trips and how He crafts stories that are waaaaay longer and cooler than I can even imagine.”