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| Hector & Bessie |
Last Sunday we met a couple visiting BBC. Hector
and Bessie come from El Salvador. Hector, 25, came here in November to get away from the
crime and hard life in El Salvador and to start a new life here. He teaches
English to 3 & 4 year old Chinese children and seems to love it. Bessie, 28, arrived
three weeks ago to join her common-law husband, Hector. In addition, she carries their
baby boy due in early July. They want a new life and think it would be great for Bessie's 8
year-old son from a previous marriage to know English, Spanish, and Chinese –
the three most spoken languages of the world.
Funny how God connects people.
One week on our way to an appointment, Mark received a phone call from a lady
named Bessie who wanted him to marry her and her boyfriend. Due to the accent,
Mark assumed she was Chinese so he connected her to a local hc leader. That leader
reached out to them. But lo and behold, Hector and Bessie came to BBC one Sunday. Imagine
our surprise when we realized Bessie was not Chinese after all but Salvadoran.
Bessie even came to our Tuesday night Bible Study, navigating the
subway all by herself to meet us, participating in the study and offering
prayer to the Lord in Spanish. Hector works long hours and couldn’t come
Tuesday.
We are so thankful that they are open to learning about how to follow Christ. We have had them to our apartment two Sunday afternoons - one day with
another young couple, Nate & Julia Davidson, another day with several BBC visitors. We have talked about all kinds of
things – marriage, how to get legally married in Beijing, pregnancy, living in Beijing, Spanish, their families, their
difficult apt-mate situation. The Davidsons have been married about 18
months and have spent their whole married life in Beijing so the two couples have much in common. In the discussion, Nate &
Julia offered to loan Hector & Bessie the book called Sacred Marriage. Bessie is here on a single entry, 60-day tourist visa so they
are working on becoming a legal couple so she can stay here with Hector. We
tried to emphasize in our time together that although we understand the time
issue for Bessie, marriage is a long term commitment and should not be rushed.
I think we will have many opportunities with them.
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