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Unseen Hands
Filled with joy and peace, the newly baptized couple gave themselves to fasting and prayer for the next four days before the Wendells took them back to A wasa. They had no idea of the decision made against them nor that the name of Jesus would bring acute division between them and a host of friends. An anointed service at A wasa brought Tekle's family to the truth, and Brother Wendell baptized Tekle's mother and two sisters as well as Erkenesh's sister and her husband before he returned to Addis the next day.
Infinite wisdom directed Tekle and Erkenesh to a town 450 kilometers away (two days' bus ride). Tekle's mother, two sisters, and a nephew looked to him for sup port. He explained to them, "God is sending us to Negele- Borana. I amcompelled to use the bit of money reserved for food to pay our fare on the bus."
"Many of us wonder," his troubled mother sighed, "why both ofyou do not get a job and make a living for us."
'T do not understand God's ways," Tekle explained gently, "but I must be obedient. We have no money for foodonthejourney,norforourlivingexpenses atNegele, nor for the return trip home. Still, we must believe that Jesus knows and that He will provide for you who remain here, and for us as we go."
Tekle and Erkenesh took one hundred Bibles with them to sell for the Philadelphia Pentecostal Church of Awasa. They reached Negele on October 22, 1969, and the Lord directed them to ask for lodging at the Nor wegian Lutheran Mission. Reluctantly, those in charge
allotted them a small room.
Before time for the Saturday evening worship, Tekle
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