How God connects us to students is amazing!  Lucia came to our zoom conversation class but was in Italy!  Formerly she had been a student at VT.  Sadly her boyfriend died from covid.  She has been devastated as they were soon planning to be married.  We are now meeting weekly and are doing a book on grief from the Christian perspective.  I (Mary Kay) am learning lots about Italy and also the Lord is teaching me how to comfort and listen…

And listen some more. Sadly a young Chinese couple we know just lost their premature baby of 25 weeks, after 3 weeks of struggling after birth.  He looked like he was going to make it but then almost by surprise he stopped breathing.  Pray for moments of opportunity to love and to share His hope with this grieving, preChristian couple. Recently in our conversation class we discussed the topic of death and every single person in the class expressed that in their culture people are very afraid of dying. 

What a joy to share our hope with all of them of the life to come!