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by Dot Rosser
ome 20 years had passed since the stranger came through
the village. No one remembered his name. The years
had faded the memory of his physical image, but he was
remembered. His brief visit of hours had left an indelible
impact on at least one of the residents of the village—a man
by the name of Don Luciano. The stranger had placed in Don Luciano’s hand a book. That book had led him to
God and had revealed to him a Savior—Jesus Christ. As he read the book, his heart burned.

There in the little village on the backside of the world, without a pastor, a church or any other spiritual help, the
“Book” had opened to Don Luciano the way to God. The “Book” had given him peace and joy. The stranger had
spent only moments in the village but those moments of earthly time had secured for Don Luciano millions and
billions of years in a timeless eternity if eternity could be measured. The stranger never returned but his brief stay
in a little primitive village would be remembered in the journals of Heaven forever.

Dot Rosser, a BIMI missionary, told the story of her amazing encounter with the
“Book” that changed a village.

One day my husband, Frank, took two of our young preacher boys to a village
called Pueblo Nuevo Vinas, which was about 45 miles from our house. From
the main road, it was about 17 miles of rough road into the mountains where
the village was located. When they arrived in the little mountain village, Frank
stopped and asked a Chinese man if there were any churches there. He told
him no. Frank asked him if there were people there that had Bibles. “Yes” he
replied, “There is a man in our village that has a book like that. His name is
Don Luciano.” He told Frank that this man always carried the book and talked
to people about it. Making their way to the humble village home where Don
Luciano lived, Frank and the two preachers heard an amazing story.

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