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1. Paul’s Calling
a. Servant of Christ Romans 1:1-4; Leviticus 25:55
b.
Called to be an Apostle Romans 1:5-6
c.
To those called to be saints.
Romans 1:7
d.
Paul is ready to preach!
Romans 1:8-15
2. Isaiah’s Calling
a.
A vision Isaiah 6:1-4
b.
A humble repentance Isaiah 6:5-7
c.
A difficult calling.
Isaiah 6:8-13
3.
Your Calling
a.
To be a saint 2 Timothy 1:8-12
b.
To use your gift to serve the church Ephesians 4:1-7
c.
To liberty Galatians 5:13
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To bring God glory 1 Peter 5:10
As we begin a new year, I want to share the story of Aggie Flood Berg Hurst.
The woman who was the child without a family, home or a country, and how she came to be a South Dakotan, growing up in Sisseton and Sioux Falls.
More important, it is a story of pioneering people, commitment, and how God works.
Our story begins in 1921 when David and Svea Flood went with their two-year-old son from Sweden to the heart of Africa, to what was then called the Belgian Congo.
This missionary couple met up with the Ericksons, another young Scandinavian couple, and the four of them sought God for direction.
In those days of much devotion and sacrifice, they felt led of the Lord to set out from the main mission station to take the gospel to the village of N’dolera, a remote area.
The new missionaries were not accepted by the natives.
The local chief was fearful these Europeans would stir up the anger of the local gods and so they were not permitted to enter the village.
Instead they built their mud huts about a mile from the village.
They prayed for a spiritual breakthrough, but there was none.
Their only contact with the villagers was a young boy, who was allowed to sell them chickens and eggs twice a week.
Svea Flood—a tiny woman only four feet, eight inches tall—decided that if this was the only African she could talk to, she would try to lead the boy to Jesus.
Meanwhile, malaria struck one member of the little missionary band after another.
In time, the Ericksons decided they had had enough suffering and left to return to the central mission station.
David and Svea Flood remained near N’dolera to carry on alone.
Svea found herself pregnant in the middle of the primitive wilderness.
When the time came for her to give birth, the village chief softened enough to allow a midwife to help her.
A little girl was born, whom they named Aina.
The delivery was exhausting.
Svea Flood was already weak from bouts of malaria so the birthing process was a heavy blow to her stamina.
She died only 17 days after Aina was born.
Something snapped Inside David Flood at that moment.
He dug a crude grave, buried his 27-year-old wife, and then went back down the mountain with his children to the mission station.
Giving baby Aina to the Ericksons, he snarled, “I’m going back to Sweden.
I’ve lost my wife, and I obviously can’t take care of this baby.
God has ruined my life!”
With that, he headed for the port, rejecting not only his calling, but God Himself.
Within eight months, both the Ericksons were stricken with a mysterious malady and died within days of each other.
Baby Aina was then turned over to another American missionary family, Arthur and Anna (Hanson) Berg who changed her Swedish name to “Aggie”.
Eventually they took her back to the United States at age three.
This family loved Aggie.
Afraid that if they tried to return to Africa some legal obstacle might separate her from them, they decided to stay in their home country and switch from missionary work to pastoral ministry.
That is how Aggie grew up in South Dakota.
The Bergs had returned in the fall of 1926 to Minnesota where Mrs. Berg's father, Pastor Carl M. Hanson was a noted evangelist and church planter for the Assemblies of God among the Scandinavian people.
Through Pastor Hanson's ministry, Arthur Berg had been converted to Christ and accepted the call to mission service.
At the fall assembly of the the Assemblies of God in MN, The Berg's had learned of a small group of believers that were meeting together to study the Bible.
The Bergs promised to come and visit the congregation.
They came, held revival meetings, and stayed a couple of weeks but returned to MN for the holidays.
In January, 1927 Pastor and Sister Berg and three year old Aggie moved to Sisseton.
The Bergs rented the Commercial
Hall over the Golden Rule store.
On plank-topped tables the
Bergs placed African curios - an attraction and an introduction
to customs of Congo.
The evangelistic efforts resulted in more people coming to join the group, and soon Pastor Berg learned that the Methodist building was vacant as they'd built a new building.
The old Methodist Church building was purchased and the young congregation moved in.
From this place, many people came to know the Lord as their Savior.
The work the Bergs started lasted for many years after they had moved on to other corners of the Lord's vineyard to labor.
Some years later, a young woman attended here and she informed her boyfriend that if he wished to go with her, he needed to attend church.
He complied, and came to give his heart to Christ.
He felt called to the ministry and the young couple attended Bible College in Ellendale, ND before beginning their ministry traveling the country, singing, and bringing the Gospel.
You may have heard of them, they were: Lowell and Connie Lundstrom.
The Bergs moved on in 1930 to Sioux Falls where they once again helped to plant a church.
The congregation is today known as Sioux Falls First - Assembly of God.
The young orphan whom they brought with them from Africa and raised in South Dakota, grew up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
She went on to attend North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, MN.
Here she met a young ministry student named, Dewey Hurst.
They enjoyed a fruitful ministry and in time came to live near Seattle where he became president of a Bible College.
While living there, someone sent Aggie a copy of a Swedish religious magazine appeared in her mailbox.
She had no idea who had sent it, and she couldn't read the words.
But as she turned the pages, a photo stopped her cold.
There in a primitive setting was a grave with a white cross, and on the cross was the name Svea Flood.
Aggie was excited and jumped in her car, heading straight to the college where she knew there was someone who could translate the article for her.
The instructor summarized the story: It was about missionaries who had come to N'dolera long ago … the birth of a baby … the death of the young mother … the one little African boy who had been led to Christ.
And how, after the missionaries had all left, the boy had grown up and persuaded the chief to let him build a school in the village.
Gradually he won all his students to Christ.
The children led their parents to Christ.
Even the chief had become a Christian.
Now there were 600 Christian believers in that one village.
All because of the sacrifice of David and Svea Flood.
For the Hursts' 25th wedding anniversary, the college presented them with the gift of a vacation to Sweden.
There, Aggie sought to find her real father.
An old man now, David Flood had remarried, fathered four more children and generally dissipated his life with alcohol.
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