David and Jetaime met in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in August 2013. After only 2 and a half days together a friendship blossomed and bloomed into romantic love.
David met Jetaime three years ago when travelling on an internship with the Christian speaker John Crowder. Jetaime and her friend Josephine had volunteered to drive the team around and somehow David always ended up in Jetaime’s car. At the end of the three days Jetaime offered to drive David to a different airport and over the course of that drive they shared their life stories, their passions, dreams, and fears and it was then that David knew this was a very special girl. They started messaging each other over Facebook and the short emails grew into long messages. The long messages grew into FaceTime and Skype conversations. All of that led into a beautiful, difficult, and miraculous dating relationship about four and a half months later.
They lived 8,800 miles apart, but they felt a love in their heart as a fiery little spark. David and his parents came to Malaysia for the whole month of May a few months later and met Jetaime and her whole family. David’s parents got to meet the wild and loving church that Jetaime is a part of called “World Harvest” and get a taste of the beauty of her culture and country. In November and December Jetaime got a flight to Canada and lived in La Ronge as David finished up his teaching internship up north. She saw the starry skies like never before, went dog sledding, shot some big rifles, saw an ice hockey game, went on walks through forests with freshly fallen snow, ate around a campfire, taught in some Canadian classrooms, and tried cross country skiing for the first time!
A couple weeks later, after celebrating one year of dating, they went to San Francisco to visit David’s brother and sister in law. From there they took a couple days to go and visit Bethel in Redding, California. Bethel is a church whose leaders have had a big impact on both David and Jetaime’s life. It is also a place right in the middle between David’s home and Jetaime’s. They sat outside the house of prayer at the church on some old stones. They overlooked the avenue of the nations and held their feet in the waters of the pool of Siloam. As they sat there, exhausted and cold from a long day of walking and travelling, David told Jetaime all he felt for her, his dream of a difficult but glorious life together with her and asker her to marry Him. She cried for a few minutes, and then said “Yes!!!”.
One year later they were married! First in Regina, Canada and then in Kuala Lumpur, and then twice more in Malaysia for good measure! It was a wonderful time. Hundreds of friends came out to celebrate and rejoice with them. Almost two hundred of Jetaime’s students came out for a service especially for them and God’s presence was there in a powerful way. In Pekan Nenas, her hometown, they got a big tent over the front yard, shut down the street by filling it with tables and chairs for a huge buffet and about 400 people came out to celebrate with the couple.
This is just the start of their journey and they know they are not alone. God has led them, helped them, and blessed them this far. They can only imagine what their future will be like with Him as their guide. Through thick and thin, they will be with him and he with them. This only the beginning … –David
我曾经从上帝那里领受一个异象：在我23岁那一年会遇见祂为我预备的他。我知道我信仰的上帝是守诺的真神，所以尽管有些疑惑，可是我选择相信。于是在2013年8月，那位“从天上掉下来”的男生出现了。他是一个绿色眼睛大胡子的老外，跟随两位牧师从遥远的北美洲来到东南亚进行特会。马来西亚站只有短短的两天，可是在神来说，是绰绰有余了。
特会结束后的四个月我们一直保持联络，每周一次收到他长长的面子书信息都是振奋人心的时刻。同年12月我到中国去，住在他的朋友，一对加拿大宣教士夫妇的家，也因着他们的介绍，认识了一位马来西亚籍的女宣教士和她的纽西兰籍丈夫。谈话中她让我再次相信在神没有难成的事，只要是祂命定的，就一定会有美好的结果。当晚我更发了一个梦，获得神再三的确认。我知道，神的话语在对的时间点是会实现的。
没多久，就在圣诞节的第二天，他向我告白了。我们展开了遥远的异国恋。过程当然艰苦，可是更多时候，我们选择仰望上帝，倚靠祂的恩典走下去。一年后，在美国加利福尼亚州的伯特来教会的敬拜祷告中心，他向我求婚。再过一年，2015年12月21日，两人在加拿大结发为夫妻，结束了远距离恋爱，也正式开始一场永无止境的冒险。——淑芬
What a beautiful love story. I have goose bumps!
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