for friendship, for love, for under standing, for identity and God.” Until this year, my traveling has been limited to the United States and Mexico. Now, because of the Chaplain’s Division of the United States Army, I have begun to travel the world singing and speaking. Dr. Graham is right when he says the people of the world long for love, understanding, identity and God. Chaplain (Col.) Meek invited me to Panama for the military staff based in the Canal Zone and at this writing I’m still on their time sched ule and am adjusting from balmy tropical temperatures to a cold California rain. I’m glad to be home with my husband and family (one week away is a long time REALLY) and I’m simply awestricken at the miracles God brought about in the Army, Navy and Air Force bases. From a colonel’s wife, doctor’s wife, chaplain's wife, teen-age de pendents, hospital patients to the two young orderlies who served my breakfast each day, I saw hungering needs, enriching fulfillment and God’s marvelous hand at work. I sang and spoke to hundreds of women, wives of service men (en listed and officers) in some three and four engagements a day. Once a 45 minute concert was for men tal patients. Some 90 crowded into the recreational room. Fifty were older people and forty were teen agers. My heart was deeply moved by their response to my singing and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to sing "He Touched Me” without re membering that evening. Music soothes the heart and many of the older patients leaned back and relaxed as they listened to me. The teen-agers (most all of them there because of bad trips on L.S.D.) were right with me on the secular fun songs, not only clapping, but singing along with “Joshua Fit De Battle of Jerico.” I wondered though, if any message was getting through. Then I began “He Touched Me.’ Two fourteen year old girls who had shown no involvement or emotion the whole time I’d been singing were sitting
directly in my line of vision, and when I reached the line, “some thing happened and now I know, He touched me and made me whole” my eyes caught the glisten ing of tears streaming down their cheeks. They made no move to wipe the tears away, they just sat very still and silently wept. I made up my mind that if I could not communicate by speak ing or singing, I’d touch each one of them. Our Lord, when He walked our earth, reached out and touched so many. When the concert was over the two girls were the first I reached. I prayed the love of God into those precious young people and watched in absolute amaze ment as some of them uttered their first words in months. How much help and how far they still have to go is known only to God, but that night He reached down and really touched lives. I can never be the same. How I thank God for open ing this missionary opportunity in the military, and while this may be a unique experience for me, and you may never be asked to sing or speak, I hope you treat traveling as a missionary opportunity. I readily agree with Dr. Graham when he says: “The jet age has opened up new opportunities of travel. I hope that all Christians who travel will not be sightseers but witnesses for Jesus Christ. The world sometimes looks in vain for an example of real Christianity. You can be that ex ample. With the new, larger planes, travel is going to be available to people under average means in the not too distant future. With the new super-jets coming into service it will be possible to fly to Europe in less time than it now takes to fly from New York to Los Angeles. Let this new travel opportunity be an open door for you to witness for Jesus Christ. Not only by your words, but by your actions, your attitude, and the spirit of Christian love. As you go ‘into all the world’ in your own way you can ‘preach the Gospel.’ For good traveling and high adventure — as you go, go with God.” KB THE KING’S BUSINESS
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by Joyce Landorf B illy Graham said in a recent issue of “Christian Life”: “Most people who have never traveled believe that there are great differences between cultures and races. Travel shows us that people everywhere are basically the same. Babies cry when they get hungry in Bangkok the same as they do in Brooklyn. People everywhere get tired, lonely, hungry, discouraged and thirsty. The Bible says regard ing the races, ‘There is no differ ence,’ and it certainly is true. There may be differences in their skin coloration. They may speak a dif ferent language. They may wear different clothes. But, at heart, mankind is all the same. They long 30
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