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Missions Report:
GTM International, Ramstein Germany
Jim Peters and his music team travel around the world reaching people through music. Enjoy this powerful testimony that comes from one of the over 360 missionaries Calvary supports.
This excerpt was taken from a newsletter Calvary received entitled: "GTM with an Army Sniper"
Update from Ramstein, Germany... Mikey (not his real name) walked into the coffee house having heard the American music playing. Two:Eight was in the middle of their se while Deb Lavon and I worked the room. He was smoking a cigarette so he walked back out to listen and smoke. Debbie thought Mikey was leaving so she went out to talk to him. She found he wanted to know who we were and why we were there.
Mikey had just been flown in that day having survived a rocket blast near his head which had shifted his brain and killed his spotter of three years. As Two:Eight continued to sing, the music started to get to him and he told Debbie, "I've been drinking since this morning and don't want to hear this right now..." so he walked away. Debbie got Lavon and they both started to pray.
In a few minutes, Mikey was back but this time he had on his arm a Gypsie prostitute. Deb (yup, my wife) got all uyp in that woman's face and got him away from her. Mikey said, "I wanted to come back. SOmething is happening to me" Deb shared Christ with him and he began to cry as he told us his story of being a sniper having just that morning shot a 13 year old Afghani boy who was loading a RPG when Mikey got the order to shoot to kill...he did and was having trouble living with it. he said to Debbie, "Can God really still love me after I've taken a life of a kid?" Wow, what a question!
Deb bowed her head and began to pray for him-- for peace, for comfort and to begin to unfold his life the way God would want him to see it. Mikey went on to say, "My wife just left me for my best friend...I've been over here so long...my life is falling apart."
We were there for Mikey and many others just like him. WIth your help and support we've been able to be here to try and answer the tough questions like these but most importantly to love them and hug them. Mikey left that night, well on his way to life. He didn't pray a prayer with us but was comforted by our love and compassion on him even though he believed he'd done horrible things... I know God would want us to be that for him.
I know this is a tough one but keep us in prayer. THere is much more to this story of Mikey but we can't share it with all with you over the Internet perhaps soon we'll see you and be able to fill in the blanks.
Please keep all our troops in prayer--pray for protection, wisdom, guidance, and courage. God is in control.
Jim N the Team
GTM
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