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favourite colour, she said. We felt that this
attractive sister may still be vulnerable where
she is and prayed about her situation before
leaving.
The absence of identity papers is of huge
concern. Like most of the people arriving
from Africa, our new brethren have no ID.
They cannot prove who they are or where
they are from. They cannot therefore be
renewed to wherever they came from. They
are without identity or status. The hosts can
only try to provide very basic needs: adequate
food and sufficient clothing. We must at least
do that (Matt 25) and we have the privilege
of passing to them the clothing provided by
Christ - a wedding garment.
At the time of writing, these people and
several more have no accommodation for
meetings and for the welfare / feeding
programme. The warehouse which had been a
meeting place was lost to them when the
Manager objected to Duncan and Kingsley’s
plain speaking about the true doctrines of the
Gospel. Urgent prayers are asked of all
readers for a suitable location for our
brothers and for the situation of our sister
from Sierra Leone.”
| Bro David Welch
Bro Steve Gretton adds:
“As we walked back along the bank of the
broad river Seine, Raphael told me that
his name means ‘God heals’. We talked about
the significance of that in the context of his
new life in Christ. Healing in God’s way of
thinking conveys much more than we normally
associate with the word in modern English.
Healing is the word we use for what happens
after an illness or accident and defines the
recovery in the medical sense. But when God
heals us he is talking primarily about salva-
tion, about forgiveness of sins and about
eternal life. The KJV of the Bible sometimes
uses the word - made whole - after Jesus
heals someone instead of - healed. If you read
the account of the man healed in John 5, you
will notice that both words are used, and in
Hebrew thinking, a healing from God includes
healing in the spiritual sense as well a making
whole.
Sis Fatmata with Bre Steve and David
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