God Coincidences

I am always in awe when moments in life happen that are so encouraging and uplifting that they must be from God. Today my parents and I were eating at a restaurant in Fountain Hills. A gentleman saw our MN Twins shirt and North Dakota Sioux shirt and asked if we were from Minnesota. Long story shorter, they had relatives who were missionaries in Tanzania and were on the same ship, called Zan Zan, that was bombed in WW II as it traveled to Tanzania that our friend Velera.

Our good friend Velera Kinnan was on that ship as she was a missionary to Tanzania too and she use to share stories of it's sinking and their subsequent capture and imprisonment. Our new friends had similar stories of God's grace and protection of their family members.

Our new friends talked about how they would like to come to Rwanda and experience overseas missions. They had always planned on going to Africa but didn't have time. Both the husband and wife are retired now and finally feel like they can go on a mission trip. We exchanged contact information and hope to reconnect while we both are in AZ.