Dear partners in the Faith and the Fight,
Once again the phone has been out of order for days... but perhaps this time it was to allow me a few days to pray prior to sending this email.
I wrote a few weeks ago, that our new sister in the Faith, Franceline, died as a result of her injuries and loss of blood. This past Sunday, her mother-in-law came to church and at the invitation time came forward and gave her life to follow our Christ! In her hands to she had her grand-son, Franceline's baby boy. I saw he was very, very malnourished. We spent Sunday afternoon arranging everything for grandma and baby to enter the malnutrition center Monday morning. Late Sunday night we received word that the baby died! Oh! How I have wept! My face is still swollen from my tears!
Sunday afternoon we also received word of a person drowning, he tried to cross a normally dry river bed, now flowing because of the rains! We also heard that another person with him was bitten by a snake!
We returned home after church on Sunday to find a hatchet, huge hammer and spike left at the door of Patrice's office where the thief tried breaking in the door and when that did not work smashing the cement around the window frame! Apparently, we got home earlier than usual and surprised him/them and they hopped over the back wall! The office not only has the safe, 2 computers, radio, copy machine, etc!!! I guess what saddens me the most is the fact with all the noise they had to have made in addition to our German Shepherd barking.....our neighbors knew what was going on and the perpetraitor. And they have said absolutlely nothing.
The police went to talk with the two teens that broke into my place and stole nearly 2000 during the summer. In all likelihood it was the same 2 young men! Celine and I had all the kids in the car with us and got home a few moments before Patrice who had gone to church early on the moto.
Wow..no way around it..... Sunday was not a real good day in an earthly sense.
However.....a woman got saved! A baby went to heaven! A baby was born! And people walking home after following ancient burial practices were reminded..albeit in a tragic way....that none of us are guaranteed the next step. The Lord saw the 'bad guys' and He will take care of the details.
So in our Father's way...Sunday was a victory!
So in our Father's way...Sunday was a victory!
May He help me to see through HIS eyes!
Please pray for us in these days.
Dear Lynn, a loved one in Christ, the seige has not left you faithless. Praying for you, family and all the leaders and families as Satan tries to discourage and keep the Word from spreading. The book is an account of trusting God to not forsake us while you continue so diligently at God's work and all the miracles He so graciously performs strengthen us all as we look in, and sometimes get to participate. God's servant, with love in Christ, Paulette Holt
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