Divine Appointment

Prior to arriving in Darwin we tried to book a double room for our first week. It was the Darwin cup the weekend we were arriving and everything was completely booked for the next two weeks. So we talked about skipping Darwin completely and just heading back to Cairns to start the East coast trek. We checked out flights back to Cairns & called to see if there were any campervan relocations available. The flights were extremely expensive and there were no relocates available. Although we were frustrated we really felt God telling us to go to Darwin. We managed to find a dorm room at Chilli’s backpackers that was available until they could get us into a double 5 days later. We checked into our 4 person dorm room which had two bunk beds (Christa quickly called the top bunk). The first couple of nights we had different girls check in at night and check out early the next morning. The girls seemed to be very shocked when they heard Casey’s manly voice greet them with a friendly “hello”. They would ask us ”is this a girls only dorm???”with Casey’s obvious reply “sorry no.” Well Monday morning we had our new roommates check in Roxanne and Joel. They were a married couple from the UK whose booking for a double room was lost and so they were stuck in a dorm as well. In talking with them we found out they met at a Christian camp in England and have been going to church on and off for the last 7 years. The funny thing is they changed their travel itinerary to come to Darwin from Asia 2 weeks early. Joel and Casey got talking and Casey was sharing with Joel a little of how Jesus had completely changed his life when he fully surrendered to God. Casey told Joel of when he was on the fence with God and heard God tell him that he needed to make a choice. How it is not enough to just believe in Jesus, but our lives must be completely Gods and line up with God’s word. God has such amazing things for our lives. Not knowing where Joel was at with God or how God would use this to speak to Joel. After sharing this we just went on with our day. Later that day after dinner Joel told Casey he would like to go back to the room and pray. Long story short Joel and Roxanne completely surrender their lives fully to Christ!! We have a truly amazing God!!