Missionary died thinking he was a failure; 84 years later thriving churches found hidden in the jungle | God Reports

Do you ever feel like a failure for Christ? I know I do, but our timing is not God’s timing. It isn’t always our responsibility to see things through till the end,  God will finish, what we could not.

Philippians 1:6
I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
HCSB

This truth is amazingly clear for a group of missionaries that visited a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo eighty-four years after a man thought that he had failed to make an impact for Christ.

In 1912, medical missionary Dr. William Leslie went to live and minister to tribal people in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After 17 years he returned to the U.S. a discouraged man – believing he failed to make an impact for Christ. He died nine years after his return.But in 2010, a team led by Eric Ramsey with Tom Cox World Ministries made a shocking and sensational discovery.

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