God does reward faithfulness

There is a young man teenager named Alo who started visiting the church back in late winter. I noticed him particularly because he is paraplegic and literally crawled into our church one Sunday morning. I approached him after the service and came to find out that he lived about 2 miles up the road and had crawled up a dirt road to get to the main drag where he took a motorcycle taxi to the church. He was then going to crawl home if need be. After hearing his story, I offered to give him a ride to the main street and give him taxi fare for the rest of the way. This was the cycle of things and he became a faithful visitor.

I left this past summer to come home for a couple months to get married and upon my return I was noticed the first week he wasn't at church but they he showed up the next week. So, I asked around. One of the young guys who lives near him told me that his parents threatened to cut him off (any food or fiancial aid) if he kept coming to the church. He thought about what his father said then decided to keep coming. I found the dedication quite moving; especially knowing that he's in highschool and has no way of providing for himself yet alone making the money he would need to get back into school.

Well, he continued to come faithful and I continued helping him like I was before I left to get married. One day, I started enquiring about his wheelchair and if he actually had one. It turns out that he did but he told me that really all he had was the frame. I decided to head over with one of the church members to talk with both Alo and his father about what the family would be willing to do to help with the repairs. It turns out that Alo was right. He literally only had the frame left. It turns out that everything else had been stolen from off his wheelchair. This was the reason he was needing to crawl everywhere he went unless he was able to scrounge up some money somewhere.

The meeting went well but it turns out that about $50 dollars would be needed to repair his wheelchair and buy the necessary parts and his family, being very poor could only come up with about $4 dollars worth. So, we chipped in and this past Sunday after a couple weeks of the wheelchair being in the shop getting fixed we were able to give him his new/old wheelchair back. He was so thrilled and was smiling from ear to ear when he took it for a spin.

I love the fact that when others discouraged him about attending church, being faithful to the Lord and studying the word of God that he decided it was more important to stand up to the opposition, do right and obey God. I feel that God blesses that and I am so thrilled that now Alo doesn't have the mobility problems he once had and is able to be a good testamony of God's grace to his family.