In His Time
I flew into Cotonou, Benin, on August 16, on an Air France flight from Paris. Three other crew members joined me at the airport Charles de Gaulle, a young lady from North Caroline, who will work in the dining room for 9 months, a nurse from Norway, who will work in the Hospital until December and a dentist from Germany, who came for three weeks.
By divine design the dentist from Germany, sat beside me in the airplane. A dentist of the German Navy, Marco Ritter, is using his vacation to serve with the Africa Mercy dental team. I asked him how he heard about Mercy Ships. He said that when he was 19 years old he visited the Mercy Ships Anastasis docked is Hamburg, Germany. He got a poster from the Anastasis that he hanged in the wall of his bed room, dreaming of one day to work in that ship.
He said the poster is still hanging at a closet door at his parent’s house. Meanwhile, he joined the German navy, studied to be a dentist. Now after many years the dream of helping the poor and needy has become reality.
As I hear his story I remember the song that says: “In his time, in His time. He makes all things beautiful in His time.” Marco’s story is evidence that God is not in a hurry.
By divine design the dentist from Germany, sat beside me in the airplane. A dentist of the German Navy, Marco Ritter, is using his vacation to serve with the Africa Mercy dental team. I asked him how he heard about Mercy Ships. He said that when he was 19 years old he visited the Mercy Ships Anastasis docked is Hamburg, Germany. He got a poster from the Anastasis that he hanged in the wall of his bed room, dreaming of one day to work in that ship.
He said the poster is still hanging at a closet door at his parent’s house. Meanwhile, he joined the German navy, studied to be a dentist. Now after many years the dream of helping the poor and needy has become reality.
As I hear his story I remember the song that says: “In his time, in His time. He makes all things beautiful in His time.” Marco’s story is evidence that God is not in a hurry.
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