When I stepped into this Starbucks Cafe in the Kuala Lumpur airport, I determined to buy something to justify using the table and the free Internet access. But, coffee stands and I are not well acquainted, especially those located in foreign surroundings. So, as I was musing over the menue, and wondering of they “swiped” plastic, a young woman sitting at a table behind me began to give me directions. She was not an employee, but a customer.
They take credit cards - Visa, she said. You order over there, pick up over here. And thus she directed this benighted grandpa - benighted, at the very least, in the ways and means of gourmet coffee places in far off places.
I thanked her and made my purchase, a Caramel Machiatto for Luana and a Mocah for me.
When I finished the previous blog post, I walked by her table, stopping to thank her once again.
The reason I could understand her directions at the counter was that she was also an American from the USA. Eureka, CA, to be exact. And, as I queried further, I found she is the only female Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) pilot/mechanic in the world, and she serves in Sumatra, working primarily in the tsunami relief effort MAF is doing there. She graduated in the Moody Bible Institute class of 2002.
We had great fellowship, and I found that she will be sitting only 7 rows up the Malalysian Air aisle from Luana and me as we fly the next 14-15 hours to LA.
What a wonderfully refreshing, God-appointed meeting in this corner of the world! What a great Palm Sunday experience as we both rejoiced in our risen Lord Jesus!
Her name is Amber Desist, and you may visit her bio here: http://www.maf.org/desist.
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