On Friday, 20th November 2020, at about 6:45 a.m., we had just dropped off my husband at a park and heading back to get on with the day’s activities. We made a turn, got to an intersection, and stopped to give way to vehicles from the other side of the road.

A few minutes later, it was quite a shock realising that our car had just been hit. I was still trying to comprehend what had just happened. Within seconds, the vehicle which had hit our car, a sewage truck, continued driving right against ours scraping my side of the car as it went. It eventually came to a halt some meters ahead.

What struck me was the fact that I had my two children behind and yet with the impact, I neither heard a sound nor a word from them. I sat in the car frozen with two major thoughts running through my head: “What had just happened? Why was the car so quiet?” The quietness in the car was so loud, yet I found myself unable to turn around. With onlookers beckoning to me, I eventually moved the car to the kerb. As I parked the car, I heard their first words following the incident. Simultaneously, they both asked, “Mummy, what happened?”. At that moment, I quickly turned around assessing them to see that they were okay. They were fine, we were all fine and there was not a scratch whatsoever, though I was visibly shaken.

Realising I couldn’t get down through my door, I had to go through the front passenger’s door. On seeing the damage that had been done: a torn tyre, a broken bumper, two doors somewhat torn, and a broken side mirror amongst a few other things. I immediately realized that God was with us and I began to praise Him.

Psalm 121:8 says that the Lord preserves our going out and our coming in. The driver of the sewage truck explained that he tried to apply his brake and found out that he couldn’t. So, in avoiding the street lights on his left he ran into us. Eyewitnesses, passers-by, and onlookers were amazed to see that my second daughter was fast asleep. “Dis pikin dey sleep inside this kain tin”, was what we kept hearing.

Like Pastor said to me Jesus was there with us! He gave the children peace in the midst of the storm! Perhaps if they had screamed, it may have destabilized me, maybe causing my foot to let go of the brake. Psalm 121:3 says, “He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber”. God literally did not let my foot be moved.

I thank God for this mighty deliverance for my family and me.

I thank God for Pastor Kech, Pastor Sola, the assistant pastors, and the undiluted Word that is preached here.

I also thank God for the TC Cubs’ leadership and teachers.

We will continually declare Psalm 91, “…For He gives His angels charge over us…”. Surely God’s goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we will dwell in His house forever. Amen!