Women Risktakers: It's Your Destiny
(November 2008, Charisma)
by Janet Sebastian
Patricia Bailey-Jones had led mission trips to nearly 100 nations the year she read an article about Angola-a country in southern Africa that just ended a bloody, 27-year civil war in 2002. "That article gripped me," she says. "In it a father took his [5-year-old] daughter to a hotel and offered her room to room for sex to foreign businessmen. The spirit of God stood up on my inside, and I was compelled to do something."
That compulsion has since led her to Angola three times. On her most recent trip last spring, she distributed laptops and materials donated by U.S. churches and businesses to build better bathrooms at the largest school in Angola's capital, Luanda. "We love you, and these laptops represent people in America who love you," Bailey-Jones told students at Vida Abondante (Abundant Life) School, which is run by area pastors and educates more than 5,000 students in the poverty-stricken suburb of Boa Vista; the name, ironically, means beautiful view.
"You have to believe in your future and your prosperity," she continued. "Your pastors and teachers believe Jesus has a plan for your lives. Where you are right now is not where you will always be. God has a perfect plan for your lives and we, along with other Christians and companies in America, are investing in your lives through the new bathrooms and computers."
For the founder of Master's Touch Ministries International based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Angola is just one of dozens of places around the world in need of the gospel. Through the last 27 years, Bailey-Jones has ministered in more than 120 countries despite dangerous conditions or the nations' hostility to Christianity. "God showed me a while ago that anything of worth involves risk," she says.
Patricia Bailey-Jones had led mission trips to nearly 100 nations the year she read an article about Angola-a country in southern Africa that just ended a bloody, 27-year civil war in 2002. "That article gripped me," she says. "In it a father took his [5-year-old] daughter to a hotel and offered her room to room for sex to foreign businessmen. The spirit of God stood up on my inside, and I was compelled to do something."
That compulsion has since led her to Angola three times. On her most recent trip last spring, she distributed laptops and materials donated by U.S. churches and businesses to build better bathrooms at the largest school in Angola's capital, Luanda. "We love you, and these laptops represent people in America who love you," Bailey-Jones told students at Vida Abondante (Abundant Life) School, which is run by area pastors and educates more than 5,000 students in the poverty-stricken suburb of Boa Vista; the name, ironically, means beautiful view.
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