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until he came to really know the Lord Jesus
and seek a relationship with Him. He then read
the Old Testament. He attended some
churches but quickly perceived problems with
their doctrine and practice. But his personal
encounter with Jesus through the pages of
scripture… is just wonderful, and best told by
him in his own words in the video. He empha-
sizes that contrary to the claims of many, he
had no supposed vision of Jesus, no words
whispered in visions - but he has learnt what
he has learnt from the written word. He really
emphasizes this in his testimony. He really felt
he had encountered Jesus, and started buying
New Testaments to distribute on the streets on
his way to and from work. He noticed that the
various churches he attended seemed more in-
terested in getting attenders and members,
than in reaching out simply with the message
of Jesus to people on the street.
With this in mind, and also wanting more
knowledge and teaching, Mo exited a petrol
station one evening in Addington and noticed
a bus bearing our advert for a totally free
Bible for “whosoever will”. He pulled out his
phone and snapped a photo of the bus with the
advert, and later contacted us by phone. We
met up immediately, and continued meetings.
He quickly accessed our material online and
viewed our YouTube videos and read our Bible
Basics material. In the old days, one learnt the
Truth through attending weekly meetings for
months. Now, you can read all the material,
listen to it or view it on your commute to
work, and grasp the Truth quickly. This is what
happened with Mo. It was really a wonderful
and emotional moment when Mo was baptized
into the Lord Jesus in a small lake near Croy-
don, covered in autumn leaves. The video of
his testimony is really worth viewing; it’s at:
Mo is really an inspiration. He says: “The more
I acknowledge that this is the Truth, the more
I have that fire, that yearning, to tell it to
others”. Mo’s sister is preparing for baptism
now and she and Mo regularly go out together
distributing our NEV New Testaments on the
street. They distributed around 100 in just one
week. Our prayers are with them as they grow
in grace and knowledge.
Carelink readers will remember the annual
adverts we place in the Daily Mail UK newspa-
per. We received the following email from a
lady called Ann, living in a well heeled village
in South East England:
“I was handed a cut out from a paper by a
gentleman named James who is homeless and
sleeping under an old railway bridge near to
our property. He is well read and his current
bible is very scruffy. If you send it to me at
the above address I’ll make sure he gets it.
Many thanks.”
It wasn’t difficult to locate her property and
the railway bridge through Google Earth.
Immediately on receiving the email we went
to the location. And there was James, sleeping
under the bridge, which is over a disused rail-
way track now turned into a rural cycle track.
We woke him up, asked if he was the James
who wanted a Bible. He was most touched we
had made the effort to dig him out, observing
that most churches don’t really want homeless
people as members. He had a large number of
sleeping bags and was well set up and not will-
ing to accept any help apart from food. He
explained, in the Queen’s English and reveal-
ing an intelligent and highly educated mind,
that he reads the Bible much of the time, but
his Bible was wearing out. Whilst in a library
in January (that’s 10 months ago) he had no-
ticed our advert in the Daily Mail and cut it
out, keeping it carefully in his Bible. He has
really no money and survives just by what food
he is given. Ann, along with other middle class
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