My Angelic Encounter

My angelic encounter happened when I went with the Summer Missions program from Oral Roberts University. The first mission year ORU sent out 9 missionaries. The next year they sent out 27 of which I was privileged to be one. (I refinanced my AMC Hornet which is a car by the way- to get the money for airfare) I had the coolest car ever- it had seats that were factory direct made out of denim. It was the 70's and everyone thought they were the greatest. Anyway the next year they sent more and after awhile ORU sent out hundreds of students every summer. Mine was a three week trip and I got my first experience preaching. Haiti was an extremely poor country and there were significant shortages of water, electricity and supplies to be purchased. As part of the trip, our group was to go to a more remote island where there would be services in a small church. And so that is how I ended up going across shark infested waters in a wood boat to a remote island off of the Haitian mainland. I was praying the whole time that God would comfort my parents because I was not sure that boat would make it. Well not really the whole time some of the time I was busy being sea sick much to the amusement of the 50 or so Haitians who had crowded onto this little boat. I had been so sea sick in that little boat that I just had no idea how I would get back to the Haitian main island. I remember praying and asking God to help me. And I remember thinking if only I had brought some Dramamine the motion sickness pill. On the third day, the last day, I was sitting on the porch and I looked down the dirt road and this woman was approaching the cabin. She asked what I was doing there and I told her we were ministering but our last service was that night and we would leave in the morning. For some reason I told her how sick I had been and my wish for Dramamine. Well, she reached in her pocket and put two pills on the porch banister rail, said goodbye and walked on down the road. Years later I thought about it and realized that I had not seen another white person on the island other than our team and certainly not one with blond hair. I decided that the Lord had provided exactly what I needed in His own unique way.
This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life.