• followHIM Favorites • June 8-14 • Come, Follow Me

Hank Smith· Host0:00

[gentle music] Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's Come Follow Me lesson. John, we're in 1 Samuel 16:7. Do you remember this story?

John Bytheway· Host0:12

Oh, yeah. It's a great one.

Hank Smith· Host0:14

This is where Samuel the prophet is looking for the new king. He's looking at all these boys who look like kings, but none of them are the one th- the Lord wants. Then they find this young... Is he, isn't he a shepherd, John?

John Bytheway· Host0:29

Yeah, he's out with the sheep. Oh, we got one more over there.

Hank Smith· Host0:32

[laughs] Yeah, we didn't bring him up. He doesn't look the part. And the prophet Samuel basically learns the lesson from the Lord, "I look on the heart. Man looks on the outward appearance. I look on the heart." Okay. I wanna tell you about a little six-year-old boy that you would look at, maybe a six-year-old boy, John, and think, "That's not a person who's gonna change lives," but he does. January 1998, six-year-old boy, Ryan Hreljac, was sitting in his first grade classroom in Ontario. His teacher said something pretty simple. She said, "You know, there's people in Africa who are sick and dying because they don't have clean water." This struck this little boy apparently. John, he was, he was pretty upset. He went and talked to his teacher about it. He decided he was gonna do something about it. He thought it would take about $70 to drill a well. [laughs] So he did extra chores, and he saved up and got $70, and he was, he was gonna bring it to whoever... I don't know how he gets ahold of people who build wells, and they