Proclaim the Good News

For David, it meant new life and eternal hope in the face of terminal illness.

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David’s Story

A terminal illness didn’t stop David* from making his way through the frigid, dark winter of Hay River, Northwest Territories, to attend the third and final event of Will Graham’s Northern Canada Christmas Tour.

David didn’t know it, but he had an appointment with God.

“I wasn’t supposed to make it even this long,” said the 58-year-old brain cancer patient, with surprising calm. “I surprised the doctors.”

Diagnosed with brain cancer in January, David struggled through treatments until connecting with Kevin,* a Christian who helped him out and invited him to attend the final stop of the November-December tour, which included evangelistic events in Fort Chipewyan, AB, and Fort Smith, NWT.

David listened carefully as Will proclaimed the Good News: “The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23, ESV).

“It takes guts to take a stand for Christ,” Will told the 165 people in attendance at Chief Lamalice Complex. “But you’ll never regret it. Don’t let this moment slip by.” David didn’t.

Responding to God

After Will asked people to respond to the Gospel by leaving their seats and coming forward, David, who was sitting with Kevin, simply stood up and—without saying a word to Kevin—silently went forward.

“Will said he’d made a lot of mistakes, and it was God who helped him,” David said later. “I thought He could help me, too.”

Separated from his wife and estranged from their adult children, David knew he’d made a lot of mistakes in life. But with this life drawing to a close, he sensed the need to make sure there would be a good life to come. A life in Heaven with His Lord and Savior.

In fact, David was astonished to realize that the likely reason he outlived his doctors’ grim predictions was so God could rescue him through the Hay River stop of the Northern Tour.

“It just blows me away,” he admitted. “It’s the only reason I can think of.”

*Names and photos changed to protect privacy.