Back in the day, Pr. Kevin Geelan was working as a Literature Evangelist in Wollongong. While there, his daughter was attending violin lessons. One day, the violin teacher asked the Pastor’s wife what Kevin did for a living. She replied, “He works on projects for the community. It’s hard to describe, it would be better to just make an appointment and let him show you.”
The teacher agreed and made an appointment, but forgot to tell her husband. When Kevin arrived at their address to give his presentation, he saw they lived in a beautiful house right on the mountainside overlooking the harbour. He found out that the husband was a world-class viola teacher with international students that would stay at his house while he taught them. Undaunted, Kevin started his book presentation to the family.
There were three children in the home – a 15 year old girl, a 10 year old boy, and an 8 year old girl. By the end of the presentation, the mother wanted the home medicine books, the daughter wanted the teen book, Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know, the son wanted The Handbook For Boys, and the youngest? She wanted the entire Bible Story Set!
While taking it all in, the father starts asking questions. Pr Kevin, without missing a beat, said, “I’ve got just the thing in the car, I’ll be right back.” He returned with the entire Conflict of the Ages series. The father told Pr Keven that had he come two weeks ago, he would’ve said no to all of this. But for the last two weeks, he’d had a Mormon student from Utah in the USA keeping him up until 2am every night talking about God.
So at the perfect time, God filled the home with two health books, two teen guides, the 8 volume Bible Story Set, and the entire 5 books series of the Conflict of the Ages—an LE’s dream and a decent commission for all those books!
When asked if the family became Adventist, Kevin humbly says, “That’s not my business,” and then quotes 1 Corinthians 3:6: “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God gives the increase.”
