Troy Manning

I forgot to mention in my last post (re: visiting churches in eastern MI) that the Lord did a wonderful thing for me in a very unplanned way.  I was driving toward eastern MI on the Saturday evening before the week of appointments when I got a call from my pastor here in Grand Rapids.  He wanted to put me in contact with a pastor in eastern MI.  It turns out that the missionary who was supposed to speak at the end of their missions emphasis week was not able to because of sickness.  So, this pastor was desparate to find a missionary to fill the place.  He remembered talking to me a few weeks back at a preaching conference, and he knew we were already in the process of setting up a meeting for Spring 2008.  He decided he would see if I could do it the next day instead of next semester.  The Lord worked it out that I was already over a 100 miles closer to his church than I normally would be.  I gladly accepted his invitation and had a great time presenting my ministry to his church.  I was able to connect with some very gifted members of his church, who are interested in helping BI.  The pastor took me out for lunch and gave me an honorarium.  I had no plans of receiving any income that week and thought it would be only a “red” week, but the Lord graciously lessened those expenses through this unplanned meeting.  Praise the Lord!