“How much do I owe you?” Clarisse asked the man who had just repaired her sewing machine. “Nothing,” he answered. “I was impressed at how you cuddled my sick baby, and how you helped the invalid tailor out to the road after I fixed his machine ahead of yours, even though you had been waiting longer. You’re such a nice person!”

Clarisse could hardly believe her ears. She had brought 1,000 francs—all the money she had—fearing it would not be enough. The repairman had charged the tailor before her 1,000 francs, and her machine had needed much more work. What a miracle!

This wasn’t Clarisse’s first answered prayer. When her husband threw her out and kept her sewing machine, she didn’t know how she could get another one. Sewing machines cost more than three months’ wages, and there was never any money left at the end of the month. She remembered that her sister who passed away five years earlier had a sewing machine, so timidly she went to see her brother-in-law. We prayed together before she left. Joyfully, she came to me the next day, bubbling over with the story of how God had answered our prayer and given her a sewing machine.

How exciting it is to watch God show Himself strong in lives of my friends here in Benin!

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