May/June 2017 Shepherdess Voice

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CASTING BREAD UPON THE WATERS B Y J A N I C E S C H M I D T Seven years ago, when we left the churches We had some contact with them through the where we did Bible work in California, I was subsequent years. Maria joined the church and concerned about all the babies we were recently became the head deaconess of a large leaving behind. Spiritual babies. The ones we church. We rejoiced! But Veronica admitted had studied with, prayed over, and watched they didn’t go to church anymore. take their first tentative steps. This March we returned to California for the first Maria and Lorraine both attended a prophecy time since we left. We planned our vacation to seminar we conducted. When Lorraine was hopefully coincide with the wildflower bloom in baptized, Maria was there, and she began to the desert. On Sabbath, we returned to the two attend church but was very shy and didn’t churches we had worked with. We invited our want to talk to anyone. When we moved away, old friends to meet up with us. Maria and Maria still had not taken her stand, and we Veronica came. I rejoiced over Maria’s worried about her. faithfulness. Her love for the Lord, His work, and His church were evident, and it was a sweet Then there was Edgar and Veronica. Veronica reunion. It made all the years of work worth it to started attending our prophecy seminar by know someone had remained faithful. herself, because Edgar was in prison. As soon as he was released he began to attend our We were able to encourage Veronica and later meetings with Veronica. Soon after, they were visit Edgar at their home too, but that evening baptized, but the work was far from over. They what filled my heart the most was to see Maria finally got into a routine of regular church reaching out to Veronica. Veronica admitted attendance because we constantly encouraged that the only reason they stopped coming to them, visited them, invited them to our house, church was that they had no friends there and and did social things with them. But when we no one made them go. Maria said, "Then come moved away, we were concerned that they still to the church where I go on the other side of hadn’t been able to make the same kind of town. It will be closer for you, and you will know connection with anyone else in the church. someone there."
She continued, "Lorraine still comes to church there. You know her. My husband doesn’t come to church either. There are lots of us ladies who are there by ourselves and we stick together.” “I will come,” said Veronica, and it was the best thing ever to see Maria, who took so long to make her stand, who used to be afraid to talk to anyone at church, come full circle and do for someone else what we did for her. We spent a second whole day connecting with people we had known during our time there, visiting with a dying man whom we had studied with who later joined the church, having a divine appointment with his daughter whom we had only met once who was struggling with his approaching death, and encouraging Edgar to return to church also when we visited him. We saw some wildflowers, not as many as we had planned to have time to find, but it hardly mattered. There will be wildflowers in heaven. And we pray that there will be souls we have touched there also. Truly, “cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days” (Ecclesiastes 11:1). Issue 27 | 234
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