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Unseen Hands
give you this," he announced, handing him thirty birr. Without furnishings and without knowing where the rent wouldcomefrom, they felt led to rent a small house.
A few days later a young man from A wasa found them. He had moved to Harar and had looked for them from Awasa to Addis. He held out 195 birr, explaining, "This is tithe money that I saved for you."
After a short time of peace, a policeman who had transferred from Awasaspotted Tekle. He hurried to Cop tic churchleaders and told them, "The man who did much harm to the church in Awasa is here. He is not fit to live." They decided to bum the house down over them, but the landlord heard of it and evicted Tekle without notice sav ing them from death by fire.
One of Erkenesh's brothers who lived in Nakanisa, a suburb of Addis, allowed them to stay in a small, miserable outside building at his home. Even though he highly disapproved of their work for the Lord, he came every day and wept over their sad condition, wanting to find work for them. This could not be God's will, and they knewit. Underinsistentpressure and often without food, Tekle became extremely ill. The brother took his family with him on an overseas scholarship and let them move
into a more comfortable room in his house. With much prayer Tekle recovered.
Tekle and Erkenesh met two old friends from their former fellowship. They said, "The Lord has told us to bring our tithes to you. We want nothing to do with your baptism, but we will obey the Lord."
After they moved to another house in the southern part of the city, Erkenesh had their third child, a boy, on July 30, 1973. She named him Eyosias, after King
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