“Dear Jesus, please send someone to help Daniel and Cara. I hate to see them go right back into the stress of running the Pnong Project by themselves immediately after Daniel’s recovery from cancer,” I prayed.

I had just gotten off the phone with Cara. While talking with her, I asked when they would be going back to their project. She told me about their return schedule and then shared some of their concerns about going back to the project without additional teammates to help carry the workload. She told me that their future teammates Eric and Carly Tirado are raising funds, but it would be at least a year before they could launch. I promised Cara I would pray for them, that God would supply the help they needed for the coming year.

However, as I prayed for their need I was surprised by the thought that maybe God wanted us to go and help them until their new teammates arrive. Surely not us, I thought. God called us to work with the Great River people. He wouldn’t ask us to go help the Greenfields, would He? But the nagging thought persisted. Finally, I mentioned it to my family. “What if God wants us to go help the Pnong Project for a year?” I asked. Surprisingly, the kids seemed to be fine with the thought, but Adam was skeptical. However, because we always want to be where God wants us, we decided to continue to pray about it and set out several fleeces, just in case God wanted to use us to answer our prayer for help to the Greenfields.

A month later God answered the first of four fleeces in a way that directed us to help the Greenfield family. Over the course of a few weeks we saw God fulfill each of the remaining three fleeces, leading us to temporarily serve on the Pnong Project.

What are you praying for? Better health? That a family member will come to know Jesus? That more missionaries will take the gospel to the world? Maybe God wants to use you to help answer your own prayer.

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