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rother John Aldersley from Carelinks New
Zealand and his team have visited and bap-
tized folks in Ethiopia and are engaging in a
lot of ongoing preaching work there, distrib-
uting Bibles, Bible Basics and other literature,
and succeeding in encouraging local brethren
to follow up and baptize people in this large
and fascinating land.
Here are a few snippets from email exchanges:
This is reflective of the witness of a group of
young sisters who are university students:
“Our ‘Bahia Faith’ friend, Hirut, willing to
join us. This is a very top news for both
Martha and me and we have got a great lesson
on the power of prayer. As you suggested we
reading together book with our friends and
the interest of reading the book increases.
The students are interested to read the book
and Bibles, if possible please make them
ready. We have read together, but it consumes
our study time, and also difficult to read with
men because we are girls. If possible please
ready books and Bibles to my university
friends and also to Hirut a Bible.”
Later:
“Hi brother, as you gave me permission to us
baptized Hirut, she baptized just now. The
same place I and Martha baptized. She is very
happy. I am excited now that she no more
Bahai faith. Thanks to God. John we need to
help her growth.”
From a woman called Hibist:
“Hi, from your teachings, I understand that
the concept of the trinity is a false idea made
by man. I understand we need to define scrip-
ture by scripture not analogies like water, ice
and vapour.
From biblical baptism book I understand an
act of baptism has two main symbolic pur-
poses: Our sins us
washed out because of
sacrifice of Jesus in the
cross 2. It is a symbol of
death and resurrection
of Christ.
I understand that the
doctrine baptism for
infants and sprinkle by
water is false doctrine.
I understand that bap-
tism by proxy or baptism
for the dead is false
doctrine.
Carelinks | China ... continued
they are free apart from to play cards, fish-
ing, grow vegetables. So I took two cartons of
the Chinese Bible Basics you sent me, just
waiting on the village streets for people to
come and take them. Several teenagers came
and asked for the books, one of them told me
her grandparents were believers and took me
to their home and I had lunch with them. We
spent a long time in conversation. They were
in their 70s, illiterate and with a simple,
strong but almost blind faith. I talked about
the lack of Trinity etc., but they didn't really
understand things at that depth, all they
cared about is believing in Jesus and eternal
life. I comforted myself that at least they
have Jesus in their heart. I distributed in that
village about 30 copies of Bible Basics to the
people. I pray to God that the seeds we sow
will grow to big trees and that Jesus comes
soon.”
Carelinks | Ethiopia
View over the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia