Today Is the Day the Impossible Happens

If you had asked me seven years ago, I would have said, "It's impossible!" that:

• I would travel the Northeast in a van with Jack Hanna and some very pampered animals to help write his autobiography.

• Through Jack, I would learn about Frederick, a teenage boy in Rwanda who chose death over harming complete strangers.

• Frederick would live through the genocide, having his hands cut off, and a suicide attempt.

• Frederick, all the way in Gisenyi, Rwanda, would meet Americans who would fly him here to get new "fingers."

• Charlie Gibson would cover Frederick's story on Primetime.

• Frederick and his business partner would find the means to build a gorgeous community center, preschool, and primary school to pull "people like me" out of the darkness of society.

• The community center would revolutionize the way disabled people were treated in that corner of the world.

• Frederick would embark on a bicycling campaign, through the steep hills of Rwanda and beyond, to show that "disability is not inability."

• I would be tugged out of a dead sleep to call this young man with no hands on the other side of the world.

• He would answer the phone.

• He would trust me with his story.

• I would go to Rwanda with my family.

• We would be even more amazed by his country and his story.

• The book would release TODAY.

But Luke 1:37 tells me that "nothing will be impossible with God." And I am seeing that truth in all of its glory today. 

Please, take a minute to get to know Frederick. If nothing else, his story will convert you to a believer in the impossible.

If you're in Middle Tennessee, you'll have two opportunities to meet Frederick in person and shake hands with the impossible: 

Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 9:00 a.m. at MTCS

Sunday, September 28, 2014, 6:00 p.m. at World Outreach Church

We'd love to see you there.

He also has an extensive tour scheduled in October throughout Southern California. Comment below for more info.