In the special Summer 1981 edition of Jubilee in which the Wycliffe Bible Translators celebrate their 50th anniversary Luis Palau tells a story to gladden Christian hearts. Observing that “God runs history through faithful men and women, individuals like you and me, brothers and sisters who are obedient in little things,” he introduces to us one of Wycliffe’s pioneer workers in Bolivia—David Farah. David and his wife Gloria went to Bolivia in 1956 to translate the Bible for a tiny language group in the jungle, praying that the Lord would reach this country with the gospel. Illness compelled them to leave their village work and move to La Paz, the capital. There his work for the translators brought him into contact with a government educational official. an army colonel with whom he became friends. In a sudden revolution the colonel disappeared. He reappeared a year later in a foreign embassy. In David’s prayerful concern for his friend, he succeeded in having an autographed New Testament conveyed to him in the embassy by a guard. In another revolution seven months later the colonel emerged as Bolivia’s new president. He had appreciated and read the New Testament. He said that it was the only real contact that anyone had made with him while in political asylum. He was deeply concerned about the moral condition of his country. In the Lord’s amazing Providence, David’s individual contact and friendship with the president led to the opening of prime time television to gospel presentation, to distributing 600,000 copies of the New Testament in all the primary and secondary schools of the country five years ago, and to its study in religion classes for 2 ¹/2 years. Mr. Palau stated that “The New Testament is being read in hundreds of thousands of homes because of one Wycliffe person who had a passion for the land and was faithful. The Lord . . . opened up Bolivia.” The government has recently asked the World Home Bible League for at least 250,000 study booklets, 10,000 corresponding teachers’ manuals, and 250,000 more New Testaments for the school program. The president has also requested 100,000 more New Testaments for military barracks, homes for the aged, orphanages, hospitals and other dependencies. We are reminded that in the world of apparent economic, social and political turmoil, the Lord is in control. “The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord. Like rivers of water He turns it wherever He wills” (Prov. 21:1). It is heartening to catch a glimpse, underneath the superficial trivia that makes up much of the news, of the really great work He is doing with His gospel. May we. like David Farah, prayerfully and faithfully seize whatever opportunities the Lord may give us to have a part in that.