"The times when life seems unmanageable to us are the times when we find out that God is truly good." (Gracia Burnham, To Fly Again)
What an amazing opportunity we have here at Conestoga Christian School to host our 3rd Annual Founders Dinner! We are privileged to have Gracia Burnham be our featured speaker at the dinner which will be hosted at Shady Maple Banquets in East Earl, PA. This is an opportunity promising to encourage your walk with God. Remaining focused on Him, Gracia trusted God with her life as a missionary in the Philippines. She was strengthened by Him to live moment by moment in the jungle as she and her husband were taken hostage by a terrorist group linked to Osama Bin Laden. God’s grace gave her the ability to remain steadfast in Him through everything she endured: months held in captivity and the death of her husband Martin as they were being rescued.
What an amazing opportunity we have here at Conestoga Christian School to host our 3rd Annual Founders Dinner! We are privileged to have Gracia Burnham be our featured speaker at the dinner which will be hosted at Shady Maple Banquets in East Earl, PA. This is an opportunity promising to encourage your walk with God. Remaining focused on Him, Gracia trusted God with her life as a missionary in the Philippines. She was strengthened by Him to live moment by moment in the jungle as she and her husband were taken hostage by a terrorist group linked to Osama Bin Laden. God’s grace gave her the ability to remain steadfast in Him through everything she endured: months held in captivity and the death of her husband Martin as they were being rescued.
Life is difficult! Gracia has experienced this more than most of us. She lived through captivity for over a year, seventeen gun battles, other captives being beheaded and raped, very little water or food, no privacy, no toiletries, and the list goes on and on. Through it all she still can say that God is good! She has written two books, In The Presence of My Enemies and To Fly Again: Surviving the Tailspins of Life. In The Presence of My Enemies is her story of the moments leading up to her capture, days in the jungle, and her rescue. To Fly Again is an account of her coming home, adjusting to life without her husband, and how God used Martin and her to bring three of the terrorists to a faith in God. I encourage you to read these books! It is a miracle story of our great God and who He is even in the most difficult times in life.
There is a book club that just started in the Morgantown area. The first book this group read together was In The Presence of My Enemies. Each one said they could not put the book down and now they all have tickets to our Founders Dinner. Each person in the book club is excited to hear Gracia’s testimony and meet the person God has used and is using for His glory. Take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy tickets to the CCS Founders Dinner where God will speak to you through His servant Gracia Burnham. Tickets can be purchased at www.conestogachristian.net.
Take a moment and listen to Gracia after she was rescued from the Abu Sayyaf:
Freed Hostage Speaks About Ordeal
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