December 8, 2014

GLOW Stories

Giving light to our world—GLOW—is an outreach initiative in multiple North American Division conferences based on the concept of church members carrying Adventist literature with them wherever they go and handing it out—free of charge—at every opportunity. Here are two short stories of lives touched by GLOW:


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A 10-year-old girl in California was baptized about two weeks following the baptism of her mother. Soon after, the church was planning a series of health seminars. A few days before the meetings began, the young girl approached the local GLOW coordinator and asked if she could have some seminar flyers and GLOW tracts to take to her public school. The coordinator handed her a stack. The 10-year-old took them home, laid them out, and thought about each person she would be giving them to. She then taped what she thought was the appropriate GLOW tract for each person to the flyers. The next day she passed them out at school. When it was time for silent reading, all the kids took out their GLOW tracts and asked where they could get more! One student even said, “You should be selling this stuff, not giving it away!”

Story 2

A man named Victor and his 6-year-old son were out walking when they noticed an older couple sitting at a table. They looked a little sad, so Victor urged his son to give them a GLOW tract. The little boy handed one to the man and said, “Here—this is for you.” The man took it without comment, but soon ran after Victor and his son as they walked away. “Thank you so much for this tract,” he told them. “It’s exactly what I need.” Victor prayed with him before leaving.

Stories compiled by Pacific Union Conference GLOW director Nelson Ernst. To learn more about GLOW, go to sdaglow.org. To watch video GLOW testimonies, go to vimeo.com/user13970741.

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