A Boy Who Can't Sleep

Ming-Peng Gong, VMC Pastor & Director of Chinese Church Association

Toronto, ON

Ming-Peng Gong, VMC pastor and Director of Chinese Church Association, travelled to Asia this past summer and came back with this encouraging testimony from a sister there:

"My son has had trouble sleeping since he was born in 2016. Compared to his peers, he is seriously sleep deprived and often wakes up and cries after 12 o'clock midnight. Since my son was born, I have never slept a full night. I never had a peaceful noontime nap. In kindergarten for three years, the teacher said every day that he didn't take a noon nap and disturbed others. No matter how I comfort him, it doesn't work. I am really helpless. My prayers are useless.

He himself was also very miserable. He said he didn't believe in the Lord anymore, and it was useless to believe. He didn't want to pray anymore.

Thank the Lord! This brother who came from Canada returned to pastor young people this year. I have heard about the healings that have happened in his meetings, so I brought my son to the meeting with a try-and-see mentality. During the first day of meeting with the brother, my son still insisted on not believing in the Lord, so the only thing the brother could do was to pray for committing my son to the Lord and blessing from the Lord on him. 

That night, 11 people slept in the same room. That night, there were snoring sounds, that night, there were loud shouting sounds from nightmares, that night, there were sisters talking…

but my son slept peacefully. He woke up at about 3 a.m. and asked me: Mom, when did I fall asleep? I said: You fell asleep as soon as you lay down last night. He immediately knelt there and prayed a prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord.

The next morning, my son went to the brother to be prayed over and accept the Lord as his Savior. He asked the Lord to heal him so that he could sleep, and asked the brother to anoint him with oil.

During the noontime nap, my son fell asleep for the first time since he was born in 2016. I watched him with my eyes full of grateful tears. 

Thanks be to the Lord, thanks be to the Lord! "

A Special Fondness for Canada

Peter & Deborah Johnson - Evangelical Church Winning All

Mississauga, ON

Over a hundred years ago, two Canadians and an American sailed from Lake Ontario.

Destination? Northern Nigeria (known as the Sudan then).

Dream? That others would know and love Christ as Lord.

If only they could have seen into the future …

Now, more than a hundred years later, Peter and Deborah Johnson have come to Canada to share the good news of Jesus with Canadians.

They live on the shores of the same lake - Lake Ontario.

During the pandemic, they preached, offered Bible study, and prayer online.

People began to listen and look forward to these services.

A sort of church began to form via Zoom.

After the pandemic, people wanted to meet face to face so they planned a church retreat to bring everyone together.

This past June, they met again at a retreat centre for the third year in a row.

Peter and Deborah want to befriend people and encourage newcomers that God has brought them here for a reason.

They want people to have a better understanding of Jesus, to tell others their story of God’s faithfulness, and then to see what God will do with it.

This special fondness for Canada that these Nigerians have?

This is the grace of God.