Gospel News — Sep-Dec 2012

We were also pleased to baptize an African Jew, MATTHEW. We baptized him on the beach in Tel Aviv, amidst crowds of people simply enjoying themselves in the heat, without, apparently, a thought for their Creator. Russians, Jews, Arabs, Europeans of all kinds, were all escaping the high temperatures in the sea, whilst we quietly baptized our new brother. In the photo you can see some conservative Arab women, wearing their headscarves, cooling off in the sea just a few meters from where we baptized our brother:

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We have posted out hundreds of Russian New Testaments to Russians in Israel over the past months. Many Jewish people in the former USSR came to Israel expecting and hoping to find spirituality and true connection with God- but didn't find it. NIKOLAJ was one of them. Since retiring from Tel Aviv down to Beer Sheva, he spends his time searching for Bible truth on the internet and discussing with other Russian speakers online. After much correspondence and discussion, our brother was fully convicted of the Truth and we were pleased to baptize him in the River Jordan: