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Carelinks | Japan
W
e've been corresponding for a while
with DANIELLE, a New Zealand Maori
woman in prison in Japan who providentially
got a copy of Introducing Bible Basics in
prison, mailed us answers to the 120 ques-
tions, and then did Bible Basics and mailed us
another 100 or so answers to those questions
- and then passionately desired to be
baptized, and has engaged in the most
profoundly spiritual correspondence with sis
Helen Pyper of Carelinks New Zealand.
All our prayer requests for this situation have
been answered!
You can see Danielle's answers to the Bible
Basics questions at:
But visiting Danielle was humanly speaking
impossible, she is only allowed visits by blood
relatives - nobody else. So it was with prayer
and faith that we began to request special
grace for this visit. After much contact,
permission was finally granted. We had an
email stating that the visit had been agreed
for December 12th. So we went there and did
it. Please spare a moment to just praise our
Father and His Son for enabling Danielle's
baptism. Really it was THEIR work, and they
worked extensively to bring a wonderful
woman to themselves. She was in tears most
of the way through, we of course have no
photos from within the prison, but the record
is with God. She prays daily her family in New
Zealand can be baptized, hopefully the
Pypers and others will be in touch with them
soon. She is really unusually deep in her grasp
of both the doctrines of the Truth and also of
the real essence of the spirit of Christ. She is
a Kingdom person, very much so.
She is in a cell with 8 other women so she
now has an audience to preach to - women
from all over the world. She is really a
wonderful sister. All was worth it. Thanks so
much again for your prayers without which
this unusual situation wouldn't have unfolded
as it did. Please do take a moment right now
to pray for our sister, and to thank God for His
grace.
ground noise in the recording, but it's a story
that a cameraman would wait 1000 years to
catch on film. It's in Russian, but for interest
it's at:
Pictured right is a still from the video of this
wonderful Jewish brother in Christ.
Finally we went to Southern Israel, to the
small towns of the Negev desert where many
Russian pensioners have been settled. We had
an encouraging memorial meeting with
brother Nikolaj whom we baptized last visit,
and met Emil, another Soviet Jewish intellec-
tual who has been in touch with us a few
years and studied Bible Basics to the end. But
like Shimeon, something stops him getting
baptized. Please pray for him - by God's grace
he may follow the same path as Shimeon.
In their old age, these men have turned to
God and their Messiah in spirit and in truth.
Blessed are those who remembered their
creator in the days of their youth and decided
for Him and His Son then, so that they might
serve Him in their lives, rather than having to
spend a large proportion of life working
through basic questions about God and Jesus.