A Parents Mission Field

[Dave Roberts]

We’re all used to hearing about workers going into schools - and we know the fantastic work they do. but spare a thought for the parents who stand daily on the school gate - there’s a mission field there too!

Sat at work one morning, a text came through on my mobile: ‘I’ve got a moral dilemma and you’re the woman for the job!’ Within a couple of hours I was drinking coffee with a parent from my children’s school. She was 20 weeks pregnant and had just been told she had cervical cancer. She was wrestling with a whole load of moral issues that this raised, and we spent time thrashing them out together. I promised to pray for her, and to ask others to pray too. 20 weeks later, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and all subsequent scans showed no evidence of the cancer.

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