Touchpoints
I sat amazed listening to this young woman give a speech at our Clinic Dedication on the impact of a medical facility on the community.
Afterwards we all congratulated Prisca. She was graduating from the mission high school and had been chosen to give a speech at the Clinic Dedication, representing her 1,000 school mates! Our team befriended her and invited her to come and join the Revival that we had planned for the weekend. Our theme was “Lost and Found” and it was during the sermon on “The Lost Coin” that Prisca said she realized that she was lost.
We stayed in touch with Prisca after coming back to the States and a few months later, I made sure that she had the opportunity to go to College Days sponsored by Hippo Valley Christian Mission at Zimbabwe Christian College. It was there that Prisca answered the invitation and was baptized. Prisca told me, “College Days changed my life and it enabled me to be a true Christian. I wanted to cry because deep down I knew that I was incomplete because I was not baptized. When I was baptized, I felt like a new person.”
As Prisca continued to grow in her faith, we offered to sponsor her to go to Bible College. She wrote to me, “Thank you, Aunty Donna for helping me. I don’t want to disappoint you. I will try by all means to make you proud.”
Several touch points in the last year and a half have changed the trajectory of this young woman’s life, from identifying with the lost coin, to participating in College Days, to going to Bible College, yes dear Prisca, we are very proud of you!
