Page 28 - Consider The Lillies of the Field - My Story: Jill Kemp

terested in anyone like me. I thank God today for answering my prayers
and giving me such a wonderful, stable, Christian husband, who loves me
and is my best friend. (He does find it impossible to understand the trauma
we suffered as he had such a stable childhood himself and he has more
difficulty with forgiving Mum than I do!)

When we moved to Henderson God gave us something so amazing - he
gave us Christian neighbours and they prayed for us! They heard yelling

and us kids crying out. I used to cry out, “Have mercy! Have mercy!”
Can you imagine your neighbour's kids crying out for mercy? It would be
so upset-ting. Mr. Dixon invited us to Sunday school. He took many of the
local children in the back of his little truck and I can re-member him
playing his piano accordion, his face shining as he sang, “He lives, He
lives, Christ Jesus lives today, He walks with me and talks with me
along life's narrow way.” I heard about Joseph and the pit. He cried in the
pit! He didn't get saved out of the pit, but God was with him in the pit. One
Sunday morning Mum and Dad went early to the vegetable shop and we
were left to wait for a ride to Sunday School. Things had been really
difficult at the time and we took the opportunity to pack some things in a
blanket and run away. (Of course we came home when it got dark because
we were scared - hiding or no hiding!) Dad was frantic and fearing we had
drowned in the creek nearby, searching there, fell in. I worked for years
to pay off the cost of new slippers and un-derwear, but the worst
punishment of all was that we were not allowed to go to Sunday school
again.

When I was about 12 years old, our neighbours invited me to “Oil town
U.S.A.” the very first Billy Graham film showing at the local picture
theatre and I was allowed to go! My heart was touched as I heard the
Gospel message. I was given a card, which explained how you could
give your life to Jesus and I filled it in. At the first opportunity I searched
the house
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