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Carelinks | UK
W
e’re pleased to tell you of the baptism of
Graham, an elderly man in a wheelchair,
who has had one leg amputated and will soon
have to have the other one amputated too.
Graham lives in a very bad case of ‘sheltered
housing’ in a small coastal town, in an
outhouse made of perspex which is so cold in
winter he sleeps in his overcoat, and in
summer is unbearably hot. Using his wheel-
chair, he tends a little garden outside his
room, which he says is a foretaste of the
garden of Eden to be restored on earth in the
Kingdom. He has a mobility scooter which he
uses to get into town and buy seeds. He longs
for the Kingdom. He has little to look forward
to in this life. He was an avid gardener with
prize winning allotments and longs to see
creation beautified in the Kingdom.
Strokes and old age have taken their toll on his
speech and mental health, but this is no
barrier to his understanding and grasping the
Gospel of the Kingdom and the Lord Jesus. He
studied many years with the JWs and was
smart enough to figure out they were wrong
on the Satan issue, 1914 and many other
things, but he took what was true from their
teachings.
Carelinks | Russia
A
fter a long and extremely arduous journey
into the heart of rural Russia, it was with
great joy that we were able to baptise Olga
and Anatoly. Unlike many younger people
these days, they had got properly married and
fulfilled their dream of owning their own
home- after saving from tiny salaries in the
city, they bought a village house 5 kms walk
from a main road and a shop, and virtually
inaccessible apart from by walking and hitch
hiking. No jobs there of course, only subsis-
tence farming. They live very simply, getting
water from their well and growing what they
can, but they lack a source of meat or protein.
Hearing the stories of their childhoods of
abuse by others followed by self-abuse, one
wonders whether there can ever really be
healing for those with that background. But
they are an example of victory, thanks to
God’s operation in their lives.
Please pray for our new brother and sister as
they face their first winter in rural Russia.
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Bro Anatoly and Sis Olga with Bro Duncan praying before baptism