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TEACHER’S PRAYERS

Topics: Evangelism; Harvest; Intercession; Results; Teachers

References: Romans 10:1; 1 Corinthians 3:6–9; Philippians 4:6

My wife, Angie, went to a rough high school. There were few Christians there apart from one teacher, David Bunton, who taught manual arts. Years after leaving Bunton’s classroom, dozens of his former students became believers. Many have entered the ministry and become pastors and missionaries. I tracked down Bunton, who is now seventy years old and retired. He was stunned with emotion when I told him of the many conversions of his former students.

I asked how his influence had brought such a harvest. He told me that many times he had prayed softly over his classes as he sat at his desk and watched them work. Apart from that, he had done nothing to influence these students toward Christ. The only common point of spiritual connection the students shared was that they were prayed over by their teacher.

—Brian Roennfeldt, Perth, West Australia