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Phil Exner, the Executive Director of ACCTS, provides these reflections on God's work in the daily course of our walk with Him.
 It's been said that a coincidence is a miracle for which God chooses to remain anonymous. So, in one sense, "God Stories" happen every day; we simply don't notice them. Quite often they are hidden under the seemingly random meetings and encounters we have as we work within our ministry. During the last year, I have experienced numerous "coincidences" involving people whom God was leading to connect with ACCTS' ministries. - On the way to my final meeting as part of the Officers Christian Fellowship (OCF) Council, I rode with an Army chaplain stationed in Germany who had just been elected to the OCF Council. During the small talk, I mentioned ACCTS' chaplain ministries, and discovered that his job was coordinating international chaplain training in Europe. Since then, he's attended one Association of Military Christian Fellowships (AMCF) conference, and has expressed interest in participating in a Chaplains Interaction and our other work with military chaplains. - A flight instructor whom I knew some 30 years ago runs a military leadership ministry in Russia. Two Russian Officers who are tasked with developing a multi-confessional recently asked him for help. He contacted a U.S. friend to organize some activities for the Russians' visit to the U.S. That friend then contacted the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) OCF field representative to arrange a visit with the Academy chaplain. Since I had just met with the OCF representative, he knew about ACCTS' Chaplains Interaction program and our work with the International Association of Evangelical Chaplains. Last month at a conference in the UK, I just "happened" to meet the two Russians who will attend an upcoming conference in the Ukraine, along with some ACCTS staff, to work on a multi-confessional chaplaincy in Russia. - A couple with four young children will escort four cadets from the USAFA on an ACCTS ministry trip to Poland last year. Shortly after they explained how they could do this with four young children, my wife and I went to visit some ACCTS supporters in Florida. There, we met a former attaché to a Mideast country who loves international ministry, but has four young children still at home. We were able to share what we had learned from the other couple, and they now see how they can begin to minister. These are just a sample, and I don't know where these relationships will lead, but it's not our job to know the future. So I am grateful and content, knowing that God continues to work through ACCTS and is bringing us together with other ministries and Christian brothers and sisters. Although these aren't very dramatic stories, they are a reminder that God is working around and through us all of the time. As we join in His work, His Holy Spirit guides us into encounters that bring about the accomplishment of His plan and the establishment of His Kingdom. May He also give us eyes to see the many "God stories" that are happening around us all of the time. | 
