All I can tell you is by the next morning, I had a full head of hair. I had all the feeling back in my arm and my leg. And I had two new lungs. And I've never had an asthmatic attack from that day to this.

Hello, everybody. My name's Simon Gilbo. and this is inspired. The whole idea of this podcast was

to tell lots of stories of great news, of triumphant faith amidst a lot of adversity. And this

week is no different on that level because the guests we have went through extraordinary

adversity and challenges, and she came through strongly. But it is different in that

maybe it might even be a bit weird because this week's podcast is actually a tribute and we will hear

a voice in a sense from the dead or rather from new life because an old friend Chrissy Chapman, who was a legend in a sense from the dead, or rather from new life, because an old friend, Chrissy Chapman,

who was a legend in a way in Burundi, having spent 30 years there, died a few days ago.

And so she has graduated to glory.

And I thought I would share a sermon of hers or a talk. It's not

like she's expounding scripture. She's more sharing her story at a church in America from

four or so years ago and it includes some extraordinary parts of her testimony. And she was a

remarkable woman. I first met her in 1997, I think it was.

She was driving down with John Riches, who was another dear brother who died a few months ago,

having spent himself also 30 years in Burundi.

And they were driving back from Uganda where they were trying to sort out some documentation

for her adoption of three children. She ended up taking in 54 children, but she adopted personally the first three. That's Lydia, Hannah, and Ben. And so she's doing paperwork. They stopped off in the north of Randa. I was there with my granny and aunt. And I said, can I catch a ride to Burundi? I'd never been to Burundi. This was 1997. And they said, yeah, yeah, you can come along. And I got to see a side of Chrissy that I think a lot of people

in country didn't see because she was off duty. She was relaxed. She had a wicked sense of humor.

We stopped off that night in King Galli, the capital of Arand, an American missionary family,

a couple, old couple, and it was hilarious.

I got a massive appetite.

She was taking the Mickey out of how much food I ate.

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