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recovered. She turned to God at this time, and
began reading the New Testament. She has
read it through many times and can quote it
fluently. Her husband began gambling, and
gambled away their flat and ran up huge debts
in her name and then died of a heart attack.
So she was left homeless and bankrupt. She
heard there were free meals at our hall and
attended, and was pleasantly surprised to find
we were a church. She hadn’t read the Old
Testament and was enthralled with our daily
talks about the Bible, often going through Old
Testament stories and bringing out the practi-
cal and doctrinal lessons from them. It all
made sense, and so she decided for baptism
and testifies that her life has really changed
within and she can sleep well at night. We
marvel at the way God works to bring His cho-
sen to His Son. You can Sis Inara’s baptism and
her testimony at:
We were so sorry to have dear Bro Daniel
Aldersley, pictured above playing the guitar,
return to New Zealand after nearly three
months wonderful service with us. From
cleaning the toilets after soup kitchen [the
highest value work in God’s sight] to leading
meetings and doing singing, Daniel has been
such a huge help. We hope more will come
forward like he did.
In December we were delighted to baptize
Igor. In running a soup kitchen there are
always going to be a few drug addicts and
alcoholics who come in, and we don’t turn
them away if they are sober. Igor was one of
a group of heroin addicts who started drop-
ping in last year. But then he started coming
on his own, without the group and he started
changing. Recently he came in with a brand
new warm tracksuit and trainers. He’d spent
his wages not on drugs but on buying these
things in his new passion for exercise. It’s
been a long long road from heroin addiction
to the truth of Jesus Christ, but Igor says we
were the ones who helped him read the Bible,
pray and really come to God, realizing that
temptation is from within us, not the popular
‘devil’, and being spiritually-minded is the
essence of true Christianity.