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just consider some of their accounts of God’s
hand. We put all the testimonies together in
one single video at:
Wisdom nearly died on the boat crossing. Bro
Tony saved his life by heaving him up out of
death, when his eyes were already rolling and
very close to death. Some time later, Tony was
walking along a street in Italy when a man
came up to him and hugged him as his saviour.
It was Wisdom, the man he had saved. And so
Tony lost no time in telling him the true
Gospel, introducing him to Joseph who taught
him further, and then it was such a joy for Tony
to help us baptize Wisdom.
Another brother spoke of how he left Libya on
a boat with 440 migrants on it. Their compass
broke, then their engine, and the boat started
leaking. They were adrift for four days. The
Libyan Arab smugglers then said that the boat
was cursed because of the sins of the people
on board, exactly the situation with Jonah in
the storm. Over the course of two days, the
smugglers threw overboard the migrants in
groups of 10 or 20 to lighten the boat and be-
cause they didn’t want to have to return to
Libya with them. Of the 440 migrants, only 40
remained, and our brother was amongst them
Another brother speaks of being hijacked at
sea by pirates, another gang of smugglers, who
then put them in a prison and tried to torture
them to get them to call home and get money
sent by Moneygram.
Another brother has a similar testimony, but
explained how he was seated on a boat which
was one of three boats which set off. The Arab
smuggler for some reason at the last minute
told him to move onto one of the other boats.
He did; and the other two boats didn’t make
the crossing, one they saw capsize with the
loss of everyone on board, over 200 people.
And finally another brother reveals the
wounds he received at the hands of the smug-
glers as they tortured him to get money sent
to them before they would release him, and
he makes a wonderful testimony to God’s
grace and his commitment to it. Without
doubt God is at work.
Please pray especially for those who are now
out of the camps. We found brother Austin
sleeping behind a railway station, very hungry,
weak and with a fever. We gave funds and did
what we could to help, including giving him
the first hot meal he had had for a long time.
Bro Wisdom, right, describes Bro Tony, left, as a
Godsend having saved his life in the sinking dingy