I first met Ney 18 months ago when we started sending mission teams to Brazil. Ney was our bus driver on our very first trip. Since then, he has been our driver every time. From the beginning he and I hit it off. I would sit up front with him and talk about life, family, sports, work and God.
In the course of these trips we had a number of conversations about how God had a personal interest in each of us. It was evident that this "personal interest" thing was something new to him. However, it wasn't until our trip this past February that it finally hit home...
Ney began to talk with me about the problems he was having with his wife. I talked with him about how God wanted him to fight for his marriage; about how God wanted him to shape the spiritual culture of his family ... to take the lead in drawing his wife and children to God.
That night Mark Evans spoke. After the service, as we drove back to the ranch, Ney asked me if I had shared his story with Mark because he felt like every one of Mark's words was directed to him. I told him I had not. Instead, I suggested to him that this could be the God of the Universe sending someone all the way from the USA to Santos Dumont to show Ney how important the details of his life were to Him.
It was that personal interest that led Ney that same evening to entrust his life to this God who spares no effort to express His love in a personal way no matter who or where we are.
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