(From God Reports, July 1, 2026, by Charles Gardner, godreports.com). The gangster pulled a gun from his jeans pocket and, pointing it at the missionary, coldly stated: “I’m going to kill you.”
Greatly shocked yet full of courage, Blackpool-born Duncan Dyason responded: “If you are going to kill me, I would like one minute of your time.”
Getting to the point as quick as he could, he told the man how an encounter with God had radically changed his life, giving him a peace, hope and love he could never have imagined. And this was why he had come to Guatemala to share God’s good news with the street children there who were being exploited and abused, as he had first learnt from a BBC Everyman documentary.
The man, who had been full of menace, had noticeably softened in that ‘minute’, at the end of which he placed his hand on Duncan’s shoulder promising that, instead of killing him, he would henceforth watch his back in that particularly dangerous part of Guatemala City.
The fact of God’s involvement also explained the mystery of why three earlier attempts to shoot the missionary had failed as the gun refused to go off – it had never happened before during his many violent escapades. “Now I know why my gun failed,” he admitted. “It is because God is with you.”
And it reminded Duncan of the word from a stranger that he was not to fear, for God was with him and would protect him.
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