Watching a heart soften

Posted on March 13, 2026 
Filed under Encouragement

From The Australian Church Record:

“Emma came to our church three weeks before the end of the student year. She lived across the country and was about to return home for the Christmas holidays. She told me she was a philosophy student and that she had grown up in an atheist home—which is unusual for the middle class in South Africa. This was her first time ever in church.

When I asked her why she had come, she didn’t really know. She said it just felt right. But I knew. It was the beginning of something wonderful the Lord was doing in her life.…”

– Grant Relief shares this encouragement from South Africa.

Photo: Grant and Lillibet Retief serve at Christ Church Stellenbosch.