Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
E R Potter
29 episodes
3 months ago
I had spent the whole year looking for a place to work. So far, none of the doors had ever opened, but now at the end of the year, there was a real opening. We signed a contract on a house and arranged for all our things to be taken 750 miles further south. Everything was packed and ready to ship, but 4 days before the move, God shut that door, too. In a manner of speaking, He slammed it shut in our faces.
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I had spent the whole year looking for a place to work. So far, none of the doors had ever opened, but now at the end of the year, there was a real opening. We signed a contract on a house and arranged for all our things to be taken 750 miles further south. Everything was packed and ready to ship, but 4 days before the move, God shut that door, too. In a manner of speaking, He slammed it shut in our faces.
GMTM 15 - 1973(2) Brazil - I Didn't Know Where I Was Going
Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
16 minutes
4 months ago
GMTM 15 - 1973(2) Brazil - I Didn't Know Where I Was Going
In this first full year on the mission field, we knew Brazil was our home. With the birth of our son, Jeff, we were fully integrated in the country and the culture, but there was one major question to be resolved: where was God's place for us in this vast country? This episode describes an exploratory trip I made in February. For most of the 4 days on this trip along Brazil's border with Argentina, through some of the most undeveloped territory I ever visited, I didn't know precisely wh...
Give Me This Mountain - 40 years on Madeira Island
I had spent the whole year looking for a place to work. So far, none of the doors had ever opened, but now at the end of the year, there was a real opening. We signed a contract on a house and arranged for all our things to be taken 750 miles further south. Everything was packed and ready to ship, but 4 days before the move, God shut that door, too. In a manner of speaking, He slammed it shut in our faces.
