Unfolding Short Stories: "The dream had no expiration date.” Jim Egli shares about becoming a missionary to West Africa
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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"The dream had no expiration date.”
In this episode, Jim shares how a dream led him to plant churches outside the walls of a mega-church—and how a trip to the world’s largest basilica in Côte d’Ivoire confirmed that God was just getting started. ‘I was comfortable, like Bilbo in The Hobbit…but God had other plans.’ Hear how one vivid dream fueled over a decade of ministry and ultimately redirected Jim to West Africa.”
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| 0:00.0 | God's story, your life. |
| 0:06.1 | Unfolding short stories. |
| 0:10.0 | In today's story, Jim Eggly is going to share about a dream that he had in October of 2006. |
| 0:17.2 | For him, it was vivid. |
| 0:18.9 | And then about a decade later in 2016, it's like God started bringing this up. |
| 0:25.0 | And Jim was asking God about the dream. |
| 0:27.2 | Is this still relevant? |
| 0:28.5 | Is this thing expired? |
| 0:29.9 | But God was using that 2006 dream to awaken something in 2016. |
| 0:36.0 | Here's Jim. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Angley. I'm a missionary. I'm in Cote d'Avara, |
| 0:40.7 | West Africa right now, and I'd like to tell you about a dream that totally changed the direction |
| 0:47.1 | of my lives. So it was October 16, 2006, and I had a dream that was so vivid that when I woke up, I thought, I was more awake |
| 0:59.7 | in that dream than I am when I'm awake. I had this dream. I woke up about three in the morning. |
| 1:06.3 | In the dream, I was with a group of people, and we went in this gigantic, beautiful building. And |
| 1:16.0 | everything was marbled. And I was like, whoa, this place is amazing. Where am I? What am I doing here? |
| 1:24.6 | And where is this little group of people taking me? So as I was like |
| 1:31.4 | taken back by how awesome this building was, they took me to the center of the building. And they took |
| 1:41.4 | me to a room with no windows and it looked like a funeral part. And they said, |
| 1:50.8 | Jim, lead the funeral. I'm a pastor. I was a pastor at the time. And I've led lots of funerals. |
| 1:58.4 | I was like, oh, I thought this building was amazing, but it's a place |
| 2:03.3 | of death. I knew I needed to get out of that building. When I woke up from the dream, I knew |
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