My Article for the Point Magazine

The presence of God stretches over any boundary, and His powerful hand reaches across the expansions of the globe. Even in the Sin City of Las Vegas, Tamryn Fyvie, Will Anderson, and Matt Draper, three Journalism students from Biola, saw God move in a way that forever changed their lives. For a class trip, the three students were in a Las Vegas housing community going door to door interviewing its residents about the effects of the economic recession on the neighborhood. Knocking on a particular door, they were greeted by an Indian man, Rajan Abraham, who had just moved to Vegas from India in order to become a missionary by starting a church. He struck up a conversation with Tamryn, Will, and Matt and invited them into his home. “I had the impression that he was very Spirit- led,” Tamryn reflects. Abraham continued to share his inspirational experiences as a pastor in India, about how he had seen the Lord heal and convert thousands.
Before the journalism team had to leave, he asked to pray over them. As the four bowed their heads, Rajan began to pray specifically into each of the three students’ lives. He brought before the Lord individual needs that they had not expressed to him, but had shared amongst themselves along the drive. All three felt the presence of the Holy Spirit throughout the room, and found themselves moved to tears. Abraham prayed passionately for certain hardships and for the futures of these young men and women. “It was very affirming to me, and strengthened me in certain ways,” says Matt, for he felt the presence of God and His active power moving in his life. Will, a Biola senior, was inspired by Rajan’s prayer for his future as a man of God. “God has been continuing to work through this, this experience has bled over into a lot of other things in my life,” he recounts. Abraham’s insight into their personal struggles was such immense encouragement to them, for it demonstrated God’s active presence. The prayers of Rajan Abraham and the powerful work of God did not just stop with the lives of the three Biola students. 
 As they left the house, Tamryn, moved by Abraham’s demonstration of faith and a growing belief in the healing power of prayer, asked if he would pray for her 5 year old cousin. Christopher VonBiljon lives in South Africa, and suffers from a fatal cell disease. He had been growing progressively worse over the last four months, even after a bout of chemotherapy; he wasn’t expected to live much longer. The Indian pastor promised to pray as the Journalism team left his home. The next morning, Tamryn received an email from her aunt in South Africa with the news that Christopher’s newest biopsy had come back miraculously clean. He had been healed through the power of prayer. Tamryn was overjoyed for her small cousin, who had suffered for much of his short life. “God is so good, and He really does move,” she said.
Looking back, the students all agreed that it was clear that the “Lord had led them directly to Rajan.” Their experience in the suburban home of Las Vegas affected each of their lives, “It’s more than just a story, It’s a challenge,” said Will. All three were inspired to live outside the boundaries of normal faith. Matt agreed, “It helped me to embrace what I need to be doing.” Trusting God’s presence can change a heart, and having faith in His power can move mountains, or, in this case, travel to the other side of the globe. God is a God that is outside of the pages of the Bible, outside of the Biola community, outside of the borders of California, and even outside the United States. He heals, He speaks, and He can inspire faith, just as Will, Matt, and Tamryn experienced personally.