Gwilym Hesselman
Third Year Student at GST-WC

Gwilym Hesselman, a third year student at GST-WC, told me about a remarkable story that happened to three ladies he had worked with two years ago. I arranged a time to meet with him so he could share the details with me for this post.

In 2011 the country of South Africa conducted a census and Gwilym was hired to work for them as a supervisor of a team. Four other people were assigned to work with him and were responsible for a particular part of the city. He said he prayed for the Lord to give him a Christian team because he wanted to use this job to preach the gospel and win the lost for Christ. Sure enough, God honored his prayer and three of the four people were Christians— two of the three ladies and one man. However, the third lady, whose name was Keshia was not saved. Before they started going house to house, the group met every day for 45 days praying for God’s anointing and favor in reaching the lost and it was at the first of these prayer meetings that Keshia gave her heart to the Lord.

Now that the entire team was born again and zealous to preach the gospel, the Lord began to do some amazing things. One particular night, Gwilym and the other young man were unable to go out with the three ladies and so they went without any male assistance. They went into an area called Banjo Walk, which was especially dangerous at night. One thing was certain, if there were lots of people and noise on the streets, it was safe. However, if it was quiet, you needed to be on your guard because that was usually a sign that danger was looming. That night, the three ladies were walking along and it was eerily quiet. They told Gwilym that they saw a group of men that looked like ruffians coming toward them and they began praying that God would protect them. However, when the men came up to the ladies, the leader asked them who that “big man” was walking with them. The ladies said there wasn’t anyone with them because Gwilym and the other male team member weren’t able to assist them. He insisted that there was a “big man” and then they quickly walked away and didn’t bother them anymore.

After that experience, the three ladies went into one of the houses, which happened to be the home where Christians lived. They sat down and the woman of the house went into the kitchen to get them some drinks. When she returned, she had brought four drinks with her. The ladies wondered why she brought four drinks and she told them the forth one was for that “big man” who was with them. They insisted that there was no man in their group but the hostess insisted that there really was a very “big man” sitting in her living room.

The Bible tells us in Hebrews 13:1, 2 about angels in our midst: “Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.”