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Много ли можно купить за $1? Думаю вы не даже не предполагаете…
Воистину, неисповедимы пути Господни!
Я поискал в интернетах и нашел немного про эту девочку:
One of our elders was telling me about a man named John Bechtel. John Bechtel and a few other people wanted to start a Christian camp for kids in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a city where sometimes as many as 5,000 people live in a single high-rise on one acre of ground. They wanted a camp where kids could get out into nature and meet God. They found out that there was a company that had built a facility for one million dollars, and the company said they would sell this facility to John Bechtel and his group for $250,000. One of John’s colleagues said: I’ll try to do some fund-raising on the side.
For three months he worked at it, but he got nothing. Nobody wanted to give towards that. He received one letter from a little girl in Georgia named Melinda Holmes. She wrote: Please find my ice cream money for two weeks enclosed. Please use it to help buy a camp for young people in Hong Kong.
There was $1 inside the envelope. That’s all they got.
At the end of three months, the friend says to John: All we’ve got is a dollar.
And John says: OK, I’ll give it a try.
Imagine this. He walks into the company and says: Didn’t quite come up with $250,000.
They asked: How much do you have?
I’ve got a dollar.
They sent the offer back to the Board where the answer was: Well, if the camp’s going to be used to help young kids, we’ll sell it to you
for a dollar.
That dollar is framed now in the camp as a reminder of what God can do when somebody is faithful. As of today, over 1,000,000 kids have attended this camp in Hong Kong. Over 100,000 conversions (people coming to Christ) have occurred.
Later on, John happened to be at a church where he was telling this story, and a young woman came up to him afterwards and said:
I was that little girl.
It was Melinda Holmes.
He asked Melinda: Would you like to go over to Hong Kong and see what has happened there?
She said: Yes.
People were going out into the parking lot, but John called everyone back into the church and said: We’re going to take a second offering.
So they took a second offering and raised enough money to fly her over. Melinda walked through the camp, saw what God had done, and tears flowed. Little girl. One dollar. Well done, good and faithful servant.
Не знаю нужно ли переводить, поэтому я пока просто оставлю это здесь. =) Если нужно перевести, дайте знать.
Click to viewВоистину, неисповедимы пути Господни!
Я поискал в интернетах и нашел немного про эту девочку:
One of our elders was telling me about a man named John Bechtel. John Bechtel and a few other people wanted to start a Christian camp for kids in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a city where sometimes as many as 5,000 people live in a single high-rise on one acre of ground. They wanted a camp where kids could get out into nature and meet God. They found out that there was a company that had built a facility for one million dollars, and the company said they would sell this facility to John Bechtel and his group for $250,000. One of John’s colleagues said: I’ll try to do some fund-raising on the side.
For three months he worked at it, but he got nothing. Nobody wanted to give towards that. He received one letter from a little girl in Georgia named Melinda Holmes. She wrote: Please find my ice cream money for two weeks enclosed. Please use it to help buy a camp for young people in Hong Kong.
There was $1 inside the envelope. That’s all they got.
At the end of three months, the friend says to John: All we’ve got is a dollar.
And John says: OK, I’ll give it a try.
Imagine this. He walks into the company and says: Didn’t quite come up with $250,000.
They asked: How much do you have?
I’ve got a dollar.
They sent the offer back to the Board where the answer was: Well, if the camp’s going to be used to help young kids, we’ll sell it to you
for a dollar.
That dollar is framed now in the camp as a reminder of what God can do when somebody is faithful. As of today, over 1,000,000 kids have attended this camp in Hong Kong. Over 100,000 conversions (people coming to Christ) have occurred.
Later on, John happened to be at a church where he was telling this story, and a young woman came up to him afterwards and said:
I was that little girl.
It was Melinda Holmes.
He asked Melinda: Would you like to go over to Hong Kong and see what has happened there?
She said: Yes.
People were going out into the parking lot, but John called everyone back into the church and said: We’re going to take a second offering.
So they took a second offering and raised enough money to fly her over. Melinda walked through the camp, saw what God had done, and tears flowed. Little girl. One dollar. Well done, good and faithful servant.
Не знаю нужно ли переводить, поэтому я пока просто оставлю это здесь. =) Если нужно перевести, дайте знать.