Adapted from a report by Alliance international worker Wendy Hofman, MD, an ophthalmologist at the Bongolo Hospital of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Gabon, Central Africa
Last week, Stoll, 28, brought his sister to Bongolo Hospital for surgery. He told us how 13 years before, he’d prayed fervently for God to heal his uncle, who was like a father to him.
Stoll’s prayer wasn’t answered. When his uncle died, Stoll became angry and turned away from God.
Three years after his uncle’s death, Stoll was in a serious car accident in which his vehicle flipped four times. When Stoll’s body was pulled from the wreckage, witnesses thought he was dead. While he was unconscious, Stoll saw a vision of Jesus placing His hands on the teenager’s injured abdomen.
Stoll regained consciousness, but he still would not let go of his bitterness toward God.
God Is Always Faithful
A few nights ago, while Stoll was sleeping, he had another beautiful vision of Jesus. The next day, he was scheduled to bring his sister to Bongolo Hospital.
While in the waiting room, Stoll spoke to another patient about his vision the previous night. She told him he needed to go hear the message being shared in the hospital’s eye clinic.
At the clinic, the chaplain was teaching about how God was always faithful to His covenant with Abraham and how He will always be faithful to us—He will never give up on us.
As Stoll contemplated how the Lord had kept seeking him through his dreams, his heart finally opened, and he was healed from his long-harbored anger toward God.
Hospital staff gave Stoll a Bible, which he is excited to read. He also says he can’t wait to join a dynamic church that he knows of in his hometown.
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Alliance international workers, like Dr. Wendy Hofman, along with more than 100 Gabonese personnel, serve at the Bongolo Hospital of The Christian and Missionary Alliance of Gabon. In 2017, more than 40,000 patients were seen and 1,500 surgeries performed; on average, more than 100 come to Christ each month as result of this life-giving ministry.