A young woman called Nancy had a disability and was confined to a wheelchair, yet she developed a unique ministry to hurting and lonely people. She placed an ad in the local newspaper that read: “If you are lonely or have a problem, call me. I am in a wheelchair and seldom get out. We can share our problems with each other. Just call. I'd love to talk.”
Each week at least 30 calls come through to her, and she spends her day counseling and comforting people. When asked how she became disabled, she said, by trying to commit suicide. “I was living alone and had no friends. I hated my job and was constantly depressed. So I decided to jump from the window of my flat, but instead of being killed, I ended up in the hospital, paralyzed from the waist down.”
“That second night in the hospital, Jesus appeared to me and told me that I'd had a healthy body and a crippled soul, but from then on I would have a crippled body and a healthy soul. I gave my life to Christ right there and then.”
“When I got out of the hospital I tried to think of how a woman like me, in a wheelchair, could do some good, and I came up with the idea of putting an ad in the paper, and the rest, as they say, is history.”
By Lindsay J. Laws
