2013 Festival

The 2013 Providential History Festival featured

The History of Missions

with guest Dr Peter Hammond of Frontline Fellowship, South Africa

And presenting

Dinner Theater: One Small Seed

Story begins in N’Dolera, a small village in the Belgian Congo of Africa – the land we now call Zaire.

It is 1923. Two Swedish couples, Joel and Bertha Erickson and David and Svea Flood, have hiked one hundred miles from the nearest mission base with a small, two year old boy, excited to evangelize the people. However, God’s ways are not our ways, and reality ultimately looks nothing like the missionaries’ dreams.  Frustration and heartache replace zeal and expectation. Without eyes to see the sovereign plan of God, some of the missionaries lose hope and give up on the mission; in bitterness, one gives up on God Himself, fleeing the land sitting in darkness and plunging his soul into a life of even greater darkness.

But though we may be faithless, God is ever faithful and is sovereignly working His plans together for good. On a journey that will circle the globe from Africa to America to Sweden and back again, God will heal broken hearts and prove that the humble seed which falls to the ground and dies bears much fruit.  Indeed, He will show the amazing work that He can do with only….

One Small Seed…..

For those worn down with the burden of planting…

For those whose successes all seem so small…

For those in darkness, waiting for harvest…

Know that God is blessing it all…

Those who sow in tears of faith, 

Reap a harvest of joy!