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January 24, 2009
Funny Story about meeting a guy named Moses
I urgently needed to get in touch with someone at ACROSS, a partner agency. I was given the number of one of the leaders whose name was Scott. I called Scott and he answered the phone. He seemed slow to understand what I was talking about and I had to keep repeating myself. Must have been a bad connection, I told myself. He said he stayed outside Nairobi, which I thought was odd. Even more strange, rather than let me come to his office he kept saying he would come to me.
The next day our office guard called up to say someone was there. I went out to the gate. “Scott?”, I said. “No, my name is Moses.” After a few minutes I determined that I had called a wrong # and Moses had just come 40km into the city to find out what I was talking about.
Turns out Moses had filled out applications to be a teacher in Sudan a few months ago and when I mentioned the country of Sudan he thought I was asking him to come for an interview. At any rate, we started talking and he turned out to be a born-again believer who taught secondary school. We talked about some projects we were involved in and how to do sustainable development. He really encouraged me, saying thank you for being willing to come all the way around the world to help in Africa. We ended up by praying for each other. He prayed that I would be encouraged in my work and thanked the Lord for his job and prayed for his future wife.
Best wrong number I’ve had in quite a while.
Chris for the Crowders
Published at January 24, 2009 11:24 PM
