{"id":2949,"date":"2014-02-12T09:54:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T09:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2014-02-12T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T12:40:56","slug":"a-lost-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2014\/02\/12\/a-lost-child\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lost Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday night I headed over to help with food preparation of a wedding that was to take place the following day.\u00a0 This was my 3rd wedding in a few months, so by now I knew well my role and responsibilities.\u00a0 I arrived on Friday and quickly began peeling and chopping veggies.\u00a0 All the women from our church were there and the night continued as normal, but I could feel that something was not the same.\u00a0 About an hour into it I learned that the son of the women who was about to get married had disappeared this morning at 10 AM.\u00a0 Her son, who is about 8 years old and is developmentally disabled, had walked out this morning and not been seen since.<\/p>\n

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Junior - her son<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We worked late into the night preparing food for the next day, but the unspoken question was floating around of whether the wedding would take place if the boy was not found.\u00a0 Before leaving we gathered around the grieving mother to pray. \u00a0People gathered from our church all around town to lift this child up to our father. \u00a0The women of our church decided that they trusted that God would do something and that we would continue preparations in faith that a wedding would be taking place the next day.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Cecil and I made rounds around the last area that the boy had been seen, before continuing on the the kitchen as Cecil was now responsible to oversee the food preparations. \u00a0The bride was a wreck and understandably so. \u00a0We all worked in silence, constantly praying that God would do something and bring this child back home. \u00a0About noon, 3 hours before the wedding we got the call that the boy had been found. \u00a0Cecil and I hoped in the car to go pick him up and returned him home to celebration and dancing. \u00a0He was found in a village outside of town. \u00a0We don’t really know what happened as the boy only knows a few words, but we do know that somehow he got lost and was found by a family out in the village who housed him for the night. \u00a0The best part of the day for me was gathering around this mother and praising God together as a church for what he had done. \u00a0No one doubted that it was the grace of God who had acted to protect this child and bring him back to us.<\/p>\n

God is Good!<\/p>\n

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By the grace of God people gathered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And we were still able to celebrate a wedding that day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yet as a church we celebrated so much more!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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