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soon and restore the Paradise of Eden. Full
meeting and five visitors. Much use is made of
the NEV French Bibles from CAT and the
French Bible Basics are much appreciated. On
Monday, on our travels, we came across a
monstrously HUGE ugly Hindu idol to some
god or other that must have cost millions.
There was a very wide road and equally wide
path for pedestrians leading up to the idol,
but no through road!! So very sad and
sickening – the Hindus are hard to under-
stand, especially when they can see the idols
being made in the factories nearby!
Collected Bro Charles Taylor, an Australian
Brother currently helping in Natal, South
Africa, and in Mauritius for a few days break.
We went to Bro Jean Claude’s for dinner, and
we enjoyed a wonderful evening of fellowship
together. Bro Jean Claude’s father, Cyril, was
also there and we met his mother lying sick in
bed - just out of hospital. Both remembered
us from eight years ago. The love and care of
the family is very apparent and admirable.
Another busy week of fellowship followed,
including a visit to see Bro Patrice and his
wife who had some fellowship problems she
wanted to discuss. Michael gave several more
talks until the final Sunday, when he exhorted
about how we should all strive to be sweet So three weeks and 12 talks later, we winged
potatoes and be fruitful based on John 15. our way back to South Africa, hopeful that it
Sad farewells to most of the ecclesia at
Quatre Bornes and then off with Herold and
Lellita to Poste de Flac to break bread with
the ecclesia in Guy and Marie Lourdes home
which has been adapted with a hall to accom-
modate a large group of brethren and sisters.
Michael gave a different exhortation on the
message from Jesus’s parables with a
Powerpoint presentation and introduced
them to some new Praise the Lord hymns.
Lovely bread rolls and ham followed after-
wards and then back to Quatre Bornes to
exchange sad farewells. Herold and Lallita
are such a faithful and hard working couple.
We were amazingly blessed with many happy
memories and so pleased that the lighstand
still shines brightly. So sad that the two
fellowships cannot find common ground and
meet together.
will not be in Mauritius that we meet our
Brothers and Sisters again but rather this year
in Jerusalem.
Who are My Mother and My Brothers?
| Sis Dorine Mboya (Ndhiwa, Kenya)
Jesus asked, “Who are my mother and my
brothers?” Then he looked at those seated
in a circle around him and said, “Here are
my mother and my brothers. Whoever does
God’s will is my brother and sister and
mother” (Mark 3:31-35).
God gives an invitation to the thirsty:
“Come all you who are thirsty, come to the
water, and you who have no money, Come,
buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost. Why
spend money on what is not bread, and
your labour on what does not satisfy.
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of
fare” (Isaiah 55:1-2). “There is no peace,
says my God, for the wicked.”
“And it will be said: Build up, build up,
prepare the road. Remove the obstacles out
of the way of my people. For this is what
the high and lofty one says, he who lives for
ever, His name is holy: “I live in a high and
holy place, but also with him who is
contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the
spirit of lowly and to revive the heart of
the contrite. I will not accuse for ever, nor
will I always be angry for then the spirit of
man would grow faint before me.”