August 10, 2007

• You never know who you'll meet at the bus stop

  Our one year wedding anniversary is in three more days.  As an anniversary gift, God worked it out for us so that we could go to Colorado for the Christians for Biblical Equality Conference.  We left early this morning, and the midafternoon found us on a bench at the airport waiting for our hotel shuttle.  Another couple sat beside us, and after awhile, we began to suspect that perhaps they were waiting to go to the same hotel. 

     "Are you going to the CBE conference?"  Sam asked the gentleman. 
     "Yes..." 
     And so began an unexpected friendship...

  He introduced himself as Carey Moore, his wife as Pam.  As unassuming as can be, he claimed that he worked part-time as a librarian, and his wife was an author and speaker.  Hrm.  Librarian, interesting.  Author, even more interesting.  I asked what kind of books she wrote. 

     He said, "She was a companion for Corrie ten Boom.  Have you heard of her?"
     Have I heard of her?!  I thought.  And trying to hide my ohmigosh, how-cool-is-that, i-can't-believe-it shock and awe, I replied simply, "Uh...yes." 
     "She wrote a book about her time with Corrie ten Boom." 
     He then gave us their personal card.  I looked down and it said, "Wm. Carey & Pam Rosewell Moore."
     I asked, "What does the Wm. stand for?"
     "William."  Haha!  He was named after William Carey, the great missionary of India!  =)

  When we at last arrived in our hotel room, I plugged in my laptop and went to their website.  (www.moorelifelessons.net)  After reading their biographies, I was floored by all the things God has privileged them to do.  We decided to knock on their room and offered to get them dinner, because we knew they wouldn't be able to nor desire to walk all that distance to get to the restaurants and because we wanted an excuse to get to know them more.

  Well, during dinner, we found out many things.  Carey is not just a librarian.  As intriguing as being a librarian is to me, what is even more exciting is that he was an editor for many years for Revell, Word Publishing, Harvest Publishing, Decision magazine (Billy Graham), and Wycliffe Bible Translators!  And aside from her books about Corrie ten Boom, Pam also wrote some other books... and get this, she worked for Brother Andrew (God's Smuggler) for awhile too!!  (and they shared all this with such humility, i was amazed.)

  We felt such a connection with them as we talked about everything -- from the way God planned our love stories, to talking about missions and Wycliffe and Navigators (Carey was also a Navigator!), to talking about how God's ideal is for men and women to be equal, to be treated equally... and how God calls and gifts people, both men and women, and how all God's people should be encouraged to embrace the gifts that He has given them - regardless of race, class or GENDER.  This, of course, is a taste of what the rest of this conference will be about...

  It was such a beautiful time with them.  And this is just the beginning.  Can't wait to see what else the Lord has in store for us here...

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