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a clinic during the day.
From the start there were plenty of children who flocked in to listen to stories and recordings and to
learn Christian choruses. But after months of friendly invitations and house to house visits and any
other means the ladies could think of, the adults only started coming in to attend the clinic and were
not responsive to the Gospel message. The missionaries sometimes despaired that there would ever
be a Christian church in Sungei Way.
It was the children who first welcomed the missionaries and it was the children who first believed.
So, in most villages the beginnings of the work was conducted among the children and many of
them openedtheir hearts to believe. In Sungei Way the nine year old daughter of the candle maker
said she loved Jesus and was praying every day for her parents to be saved. The parents however,
told her that she could not believe because they were sellers of idolatrous paraphernalia. It was also
parental opposition that stopped an afternoon meeting being held in the school for rubber tappers’
children.
In Santai, Betty was used to lead a 14 year old boy to the Lord. He had come regularly to meetings,
but was often beaten because of it. Now he was determined to accept the Lord and suffer the
consequences. In the end that boy’s conversion was to be the catalyst to many others coming to
know the Lord.
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a clinic during the day.
From the start there were plenty of children who flocked in to listen to stories and recordings and to
learn Christian choruses. But after months of friendly invitations and house to house visits and any
other means the ladies could think of, the adults only started coming in to attend the clinic and were
not responsive to the Gospel message. The missionaries sometimes despaired that there would ever
be a Christian church in Sungei Way.
It was the children who first welcomed the missionaries and it was the children who first believed.
So, in most villages the beginnings of the work was conducted among the children and many of
them openedtheir hearts to believe. In Sungei Way the nine year old daughter of the candle maker
said she loved Jesus and was praying every day for her parents to be saved. The parents however,
told her that she could not believe because they were sellers of idolatrous paraphernalia. It was also
parental opposition that stopped an afternoon meeting being held in the school for rubber tappers’
children.
In Santai, Betty was used to lead a 14 year old boy to the Lord. He had come regularly to meetings,
but was often beaten because of it. Now he was determined to accept the Lord and suffer the
consequences. In the end that boy’s conversion was to be the catalyst to many others coming to
know the Lord.
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