Gospel News · May - August 2018

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Kashindi. They remain very African, some still
wearing their traditional African clothing, and
the mother and older daughters carrying the
little ones wrapped on their backs. They only
have one car, and small town Australia is built
on the assumption of private car ownership,
so it was quite a job to ferry them all to the
beach! But there in a creek off Runaway Bay,
Queensland, Australia the Lord's wonderful
work with this family continued, which He
began so long ago in Africa. The family
greeted the newly baptized with flowers,
woops of joy and hugs... you can catch some
of the great joy in the video at:
Carelinks | Belgium
W
e’ve been in touch with an Iranian
Christian woman who was part of an
underground church in Iran, but they were
infiltrated and her husband collapsed under
the pressure, returned to Islam and divorced
her - and got the religious Police onto her.
She fled with her young child to Belgium
where she lives with a relative. We were able
to meet with her and baptize her into the Lord
Jesus. She is really in a very uncertain posi-
tion, not helped by Belgium taking so long in
deciding asylum cases. And meanwhile she and
her young daughter must live with such great
uncertainty and nervous pressure. Please do
pray for her.
Carelinks | China
O
ur wonderful brother Donald reports: “I
baptized brother Zhu in the swimming
pool. He is a Shift Line Leader in an electrical
company and first knew Jesus from youku.com
(the same as youtube in western countries).
Brother Zhu was impressed by the video about
Jesus as the bread of life. After that he spent
a lot of time viewing the videos and got very
excited. Then he applied for our free Bible lit-
erature, as there are few groups offering
truly free Bible literature in Chinese. We sent
Chinese Bible Basics to him and then I went to
baptize him.
I used my annual leave preaching in the vil-
lages near to Hefei. Rural villages here in
China are all nearly the same. The land is
rented to them by agricultural companies.
Most people living there are elders and
women, more than 70% of the male labour
force in villages go out to work in the fields.
People living here have nothing to do when
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Mother and daughter rejoice after the baptism