Gospel News — Jun-Aug 2012

procedure is followed on a Monday except it is about 5.30 the meal is served. Many members travel huge distances often on foot to receive both the spiritual and physical sustenance.

The 3 of us were shown by Bro Vlad what to cook and how to cook it...and because of having more `boots on the ground' Duncan thought he would roll out the feeding programme to cover Tues-Friday as well! It was difficult to know how many would come but it ended up being about 60ish every day. The queue for the food contained many hungry looking faces with different sets of experiences... we definitely felt we were casting our net wide and God was giving an increase. Much of our week was taken up with the provision of physical food, buying, cooking, clearing up, washing-up but not ALL!

The team cooking and feeding; the special treat was

pancakes with jam, and there was nearly another

`Russian Revolution' when they were distributed!

We had two baptisms at the hall this week! The first was a young man called NAURIS who had initially come across one of Duncan's articles on the internet about Satan, he had been reading his Bible in earnest for the last 4 years and travelling around the world searching for `the truth'. Once he started reading the article on the Devil, he couldn't stop! All he read in the various books

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and courses made sense or fitted in with his own understanding of Bible truth and he had a desire to be baptised; he prayed to God and asked that if it was His will to be baptised that He would lead him in the right direction; within a few days he found himself travelling back from India and arranging a meeting with Duncan. The amazing thing is that Nauris is Latvian! Another great timing was that we all conversed in English as his language skills were excellent, and that his baptism was on the Wednesday morning when Cindy holds her mother and toddler group. One of Cindy's ladies is herself expressing an interest and it was a great witness for the mothers and toddlers to gather round his confession of faith and watch as he died to his old life and rose to his new. Later Vanessa, Michael and myself held a breaking of bread with our new brother in Christ.

Mums and toddlers who came in off the street observing the baptism