Depending on God for every need
Mark Hatfield, who directs Baptist Global Response work in Sub-Saharan Africa, sends this note from a Southern Baptist field partner involved in the food boxes Southern Baptists have been delivering to needy people in Zimbabwe. Many of those food parcels are going to retired people who have no pension.
An Irish lady who has been in Zimbabwe since the 1960s took me to the Harare airport on Friday. She recently retired and received her pension from her 40 years of teaching in Zimbabwe. My mom taught more than 40 years in Georgia and now has a comfortable monthly retirement. This godly Irish lady received her pension in a lump sum, drove to the grocery store, spent her whole pension and walked out the door with a small bag of groceries.
As we drove to the airport, I noticed the gas gauge on her little car was well below “E.” The first place we stopped to get fuel did have fuel, but no power to pump it. Many other places we passed had no fuel. We drove back into town and found a filling station with fuel. She pulled out a 25-liter coupon someone had given her and pumped that amount into her car. I don’t think she knew where her next tank of fuel would come from.
She never complained but, in the course of our conversation, I learned just how much this lady and her husband depend on God for their every need. And God has proven faithful.
