David and Svea Flood, An Inspiring New Drama From Australia

Please stay with me for a moment as I tell you about a precious video that was sent to me a few weeks ago from Australia. 

Those of you who have known us very long, know that the life of Svea Flood has had a tremendous impact on my life. I can not imagine not knowing her story and not living with the inspiration it has provided to me in the pursuit of men and women for Christ.

David and Svea Flood left Sweden with their toddler son in 1921 bound for the Belgian Congo. Their time was filled with uninmagined difficulty and Svea only won one convert to Christ before dying 17 days after giving birth.

I have told the story dozens of times over the last 16 years or so! Here is a brief recap that I told on A Word For Wednesday in 2021.

I can not fully describe for you the impact Svea Flood had on my life and still has today.

In May I was contacted by some precious people in Australia, Deon and Kirsty van Tonder, who wrote a drama and produced it along with some home school families. I was thrilled all the way through it. I know these details well but I wept and cried as though I was hearing it for the very first time.

I recommend it highly. It is necessarily lengthy to tell the story, but even if you need to watch it is small bits over a few days, the life of Svea Flood will touch you! It inspires me all over again to give my life to the cause of Christ.

Thank you for joining us today.

Davy