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the tribal chief became followers of Christ . . . all because of the
sacrifice of David and Svea Flood.
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And so Aggie Hurst, now sitting in the squalid tenement flat
in Sweden, unfolded to her father the events that followed her
finding the Swedish magazine in her Seattle mailbox.
“Papa. The college gave us a twenty-fifth anniversary gift to
come here, to Sweden. So two days ago, in a stopover in London
. . . Papa, we found Ruhigita Ndagora—the boy who brought you
eggs and chickens in the jungle.
During that stopover, Aggie and her husband had strolled
across the gardens of Royal Prince Albert Hall. Peeking inside
the hall, they realized that an African man was about to speak
to a mission convention. He was introduced as the leader of a
movement of 110,000 believers and as one who had established
thirty-two mission bases, several Bible schools, and a Christian
hospital. Following the man’s presentation, Aggie pressed forward
to ask the speaker if he had ever heard of her birth parents, David
and Svea Flood.
The speaker, visibly shaken by Aggie’s question, secured a
translator to cry out, “Oui, madame. Svea Flood led me to Jesus! I
am the boy who brought food to your mama and papa before you
were born. Your mother’s grave and her memory are honored by
everyone in the village. They have all come to faith in Christ.”
“And then, Daddy,” Aggie said as she stroked her father’s
fevered head, “Ruhigita opened his arms to hug me. He said we
must come to Africa to see that David and Svea Flood are the most
famous people in their village’s history.”
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