Twenty-two New Testaments.  Thirty Gospels of John.  Two hundred sixty eight tracts.  All in French.  All distributed by one or another of us at Shiloh in one months time.  We're submitting our first monthly report to the organization that provides these items for free.  Regular reporting is the only hitch.

One beautician that has a link to Shiloh has been giving out gospel tracts to each of her customers.  Our favorite taxi driver sets a couple of different tracts on his dash board and lets his customers pick them up and ask questions.  One member of our team passed them out to many relatives at his father's funeral.  

But the best story this month comes from one of another our team members.  She asked for a day off work in order to visit a cousin who is dying of AIDS.  She wanted to share the gospel with her one last time.  When she arrived in her cousin's town, she discovered that the cousin had disappeared.  Disappeared?!  How could that be??  

 The man who fathered the cousin's four children abandoned her somewhere along the way.  And at some point the cousin was diagnosed with AIDS.  Eventually she decided she didn't want to live anymore so stopped taking the medication.  Over time her health has deteriorated.  When she slipped into a coma, the family carried her to a local hospital where she was put on IV medication.  Nobody was in the room with her when she came out of the coma.  And nobody noticed when she slipped out of the hospital and disappeared.  

While our girl was not able to share the gospel with her cousin (who is still lost) something rather amazing happened.  The cousin's mother is understandably very shook up with the disappearance of her daughter.  So much so that for the first time ever she is realizing that she needs to know more about God.  Is He real?  Does He really exist?  Can He help in a crisis like this?  What a joy it was for our team member to be able to point this older woman to the Most High God.  She left her with a Gospel of John and a couple of different tracts.   Maybe, just maybe, the disappearance of the cousin will result in the salvation of the mother.