For a woman confined to the wheelchair, and the use of iron lung, for the rest of her life, Mrs Gibbs did truly amazing things. As the children in her Sunday school began to grow in number, she asked her son to take her to the bus company in their city. She had made up her mind to go there to ask them to donate a bus, weekly, so the children could get to church without much trouble.
On arrival at the bus company, while her son was trying to get her out of the vehicle onto her wheelchair, she fell and let out an agonising cry. Eventually, when mother and son met with a top official of the company, he told them there was no way they would give out any of their buses for free. Mrs Gibbs insisted on seeing the owner of the company.
When he came down to see her, and hearing her request, he said, “I was on the balcony upstairs when you arrived, and I witnessed the fall. Whatever could make anyone so passionate to have endured something that painful must be very important to her. I’ll give you a bus. But, you’ll have to get a driver for it.”
Mrs Gibbs thanked him, and said, “We have no driver. You’ll have to give us one of yours.” The man agreed to get them a driver. As mother and son made to leave the place, Mrs Gibbs suddenly turned around and said, “Can you give us another bus? We need two buses every Sunday, because children come from both East and West of the city.” The man shook his head and said, “I’ll send you two buses and two drivers on Sunday.”
That’s how Mrs Gibbs launched a massive bus ministry that brought thousands of inner-city children to hear the Gospel of the Lord JESUS CHRIST. For a disabled woman, who couldn’t even hold her own head up, to have secured bus donations from a shrewd business man, is truly remarkable.
What began as a small class with her children grew into an incredible bus ministry. Over the course of 20 years, her Sunday school program regularly drew up to 5,000 children, weekly.
Marvelous Mrs Gibbs! Wonder-working GOD!
Hallelujah!!!
Do you still have any excuses?!
DA