CREATIVITY AND FLEXIBILITY
To be a missionary, you need to be both creative and flexible in figuring ways to get through to people. David Marshall and his family live and minister in Taichung in Taiwan. Dave was looking for a way to get through to the young men who lived around him. Since Dave had been a basketball player, hanging up a hoop seemed like a good way to make contact but there was no obvious place to put one. Five days after he started praying about this the city planted a twenty five foot cement light pole right in front of his house. He soon was able to get a ball donated and a backboard and hoop at cost. He was limited in his ability to attach the hoop to the pole as he had to use the one existing hole in the pole. As providence directed the position of the hole allowed the hoop to be at just regulation height. The hoop…
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