‘All hands on deck’ at Carelinks UK Conference | Parcelling up approximately
700 Bibles together with personal notes in response to our Daily Mail Ad
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e have held house church also at Bexley-
heath and were pleased to baptize
Mohsen, a young man smuggled out of the
infamous Calais ‘jungle’, after a nightmare
journey across Europe in a refrigerated truck
full of oranges. The moisture in that situation
apparently keeps sniffer dogs off the scent. In
all these lives we see the Lord’s hand at work,
so earnestly seeking to save.
House church continues in Croydon, with all
kinds of folks present- nearly everyone at the
table had been born outside of the UK- Iran,
Iraq, Bangladesh, South Africa, as well as
Australia. The stories of how everyone had got
to the UK were themselves a testament to
providence. One man described how he was
one of 14 men who were placed inside a
tanker truck for the journey from the Calais
‘jungle’ across the channel to the UK. They
stood in liquid within the truck for six hours;
this was in order to put sniffer dogs off the
human scent. Another described how refugees
are hidden inside the huge spare wheels of
trucks, where the inner tube would otherwise
be, maintaining that bent over position for
several hours until released; another was
strapped to the axle of a truck. Once these
people arrive in the UK, they really do start
looking for the Lord. We went through Luke
15, talking of how the Lord searches for the
lost sheep, coin and son until He finds it, doing
all in His power to find His people and bring
them to Himself. And these very hard experi-
ences were all part of that seeking process.
And there was therefore such joy in Heaven
when finally, God finds man at the same point
as man finds God, through identification with
His Son in baptism.
We all rejoiced therefore with Mustafa, an
Iraqi, whom we baptized in the bath tub after
the meeting, and before the meal together.
Many thanks to Cardia and Cindy for trying their
best to produce authentic Middle Eastern food,
and apparently succeeding, or being well
appreciated. Mustafa is an older man, an engi-
neer who previously managed one of the water
treatment stations in Baghdad. We really do
rejoice with the Angels in heaven at all this
response to our outreach; and we look forward
to more planned baptisms at our house church.
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Evia and Daniel diligently posting our leaflets
through letterboxes in central Croydon