Gospel News â Jun-Aug 2012
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NEWS FROM BROTHERS & SISTERS
FREETOWN
I wish to write to request that you send `Gospel News' magazines and Bibles with the abridged version of `Bible Basics' for members and intended members please.
--Bro. Jolly D. Williams
CANDU
Creche and Visitors' Room, Candu.
Left: Sisters Zelpha, Eugenia, Vivian and Selmabi,
who work in the Candu Creche.
SOWETO
We had another baptism on Sunday - someone who heard about the Christadelphians on the radio when Daniel and Obed did their thing.
Daniel gave him a NEV Bible and said he was the first in South Africa to receive one.
--Sis Leonie Verster
ARUSHA
We have five English speaking Brethren and so would like five English Bibles for them and if possible some for English speaking contacts on our missionary trips; we also need Bibles in French and Kiswahili. I was baptised in 1998 and was interviewed by Brother David Smith. I really like working for the CBM. travelling each year with visiting brethren to different areas and translating for them.
--Bro Thierry Kabangu,
KILOSA
I would like to draw your attention to my situation: I lost my sight in 1981 while I was employed by the ministry of Education, where I had worked since 1974. The cause of my blindness was chloroquine treatment when I suffered malaria. Subsequently, doctors felt that the treatment had destroyed my retinas, leaving a spot on both retinas. However, I was retrained and learned to read and write using Braille.
I retired in 1997, at that time I was very eager to learn the word of God, but knew of no-one who could assist me. I found, by God's grace, that the CBM already had a Christadelphian meeting at Kimamba, started by Bro. Samuel Malulu, who introduced me to the good news of the Truth; I was very impressed by this message and wanted to join the meeting.
In 2004 I met Bro Michael Owen, who told me about the work of helping the blind. Within a month, Bro Arthur and Sis Muriel East began to send me the forty lesson course, and the following year, 2005, I was baptised.
The following year, I preached the Truth to local people, and eight converts were baptised. Numbers of converts were increasing because I was preaching the Truth to them.
Since the death of Bro. Arthur East, and the floods which swept away my books, I have no books