I love stories that remind us of God’s faithfulness. This is a good one…

In 1921, a missionary couple named David and Svea Flood, traveled from Sweden to the heart of Africa to what was then called the Belgian Congo. They felt led by the Lord to take the gospel to a remote village there.

However, after much prayer, their only contact with the villagers was a young man who sold them chickens and eggs twice a week. Svea decided that if this was the only African, she could talk to, she would try to lead the boy to Jesus. After many weeks, the boy trusted Christ as His Savior.

Then, of all things, Svea found herself pregnant. When the time came, a little girl was born. The delivery, however, exhausted Svea Flood who was weak from bouts of malaria. Seventeen days later, after giving birth, Svea died. The infant girl was eventually given to an American couple who returned to the US, changing the baby’s name to Aggie.

Svea’s husband, David turned his back on God and eventually remarried. He had one rule in his house, “God’s is never to be spoken of.”

Years later, Aggie, now grown and living in the US, went to her mailbox one day and found a Swedish magazine. She couldn’t read the words, but one picture caused her heart to race. It was a photo of a grave marked by a white cross and on the cross was a name that she did recognize: Svea Flood.

Aggie jumped in her car and drove to a friend who could read Swedish and asked, “What does this mean?” The story was about a missionary who had come to a part of the Belgian Congo in Africa. It was the story of an African boy who had become a believer and as an adult, built a school, leading an entire village to the Lord. It said that more than 600 people had been converted.

After she read the article, Aggie felt compelled to go to Sweden and find her biological father. Having found him, she traveled to his residence and found a bitter, broken man.

Meeting him, Aggie cried, “Papa, Jesus loves you. He has never hated you.” By the end of the afternoon, her father had come back to the God whom he had blamed for his wife’s death many years before. Aggie recounted the magazine’s story of an entire African village following Christ because of Svea leading a boy to Jesus.

The story doesn’t end there. The man whom Svea Flood led to Christ eventually became the superintendent of the national church, with well over 110,000 baptized believers. Svea Flood led only one African boy to Christ, but he impacted a nation!

God has an amazing way of multiplying seeds of love and kindness!

(This story was retold from 40 Unstoppable Women Who Changed the World, by Harold J. Sala.)