Gospel News — Sep-Dec 2012

Sis. Sandra and Skaidrite; being greeted after baptism by Sister Suzi and then by Skaidrite's son-in-law. Bro Andrei.

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Our two sisters, mother and daughter, eating together

at one of the feeding schemes after the meeting.

Then there was NIKOLAY, an older man who at present is living literally on the street, sleeping where he can. You can only sleep in the night shelters in Riga for around 300 nights a year, the rest of the time you have to find your own shelter, and Nikolay counts himself lucky that his "free time" has come in the Summer when it's warm. Spectacles were distributed, and Nikolay was so thrilled with his. Whenever there was a chapter or passage to be read, he eagerly volunteered. He was just so happy to be able to read the Bible more easily.

Spectacle distribution before meeting

Finally NATALYA and TATYANA were baptized, these are two sisters in the flesh now both in their 70s and also living in the shelters. The baptism service was performed by reading Romans 6, an exposition of the chapter and of