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electronic POSTBAG INDIAN PASSION DEAR BROTHERS and sisters in Christ, Greetings from India, I have been on your website and I am really inspired by your work and what the Lord has been doing through you. We also are serving the Lord like you and have a passion for the youth and children. If you have any networks in India please let me know so I can fellowship with them. Bless you, Martin Luther BETHEL, INDIA For more on Multiply International visit www.multiply.org.uk STUDENT SEARCH I AM interested in visiting one of your community houses as the Christian community lifestyle is something I am considering. I became a Christian in 1984 and I’m now a graduate from theological college. In my third year I studied baptism in the Holy Spirit and spent some time working for Gilead Foundations through which I heard some good things about the church. I look forward to hearing from you, Ian Faulkner OKEHAMPTON, DEVON, UK For more on the Jesus Fellowship’s residential Christian community visit www.newcreation.org.uk BRIGHT BURST I JUST thought I’d drop you a line to say how much I appreciate you all. You are like a fiery beacon of hope, life and vitality in what could so easily be a “grey” world. All the doom and gloom of the world could dampen one’s spirit if it was not for the burst of truth, joy and spiritual reality that comes from ministries like yours. Long may it continue! God bless, Irene Clegg LEDBURY, HEREFORDSHIRE, UK To receive New D@wn, a weekly email from the website featuring the latest prophetic word, upcoming events and a brief survey of mJa activity around the UK, visit www.jesus.org.uk/lists IMMIGRATION HOPE DEAR Jesus Fellowship, I am the senior chaplain in an immigration removal centre in the UK. There are around 250 detainees here, from all parts of the world. Around half are Muslim and a third Christian. We work to give them hope and, if they are open, share with them the gospel message. I was wondering if you would be willing to supply us with a subscription of your magazine and newspaper so we can make it available to the people here. Many of them enjoyed reading your literature in the past, in particular the stories of lives changed by God’s power and love. God bless, Patrick Wright HARMONDSWORTH, UK To receive a free mailing of Jesus Life and Streetpaper fill in the card between pages 24 and 25 and send it freepost to the Jesus Fellowship. R.E. QUEST I’VE BEEN watching a Jesus Army video at school in my religious education class and it’s very interesting. I was wondering what you actually do and what it involves? Also is there a Jesus Army church in Bristol where I live? Emma BRISTOL, UK For information on Jesus Army activities in different areas around the UK visit www.jesus.org.uk/uk info@jesus.org.uk IF YOU’D LIKE TO SEND YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS, OR LET US KNOW WHAT GOD HAS BEEN DOING IN YOUR LIFE OR YOU’D LIKE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HIM EMAIL: info@jesus.org.uk WRITE: JESUS FELLOWSHIP, NETHER HEYFORD, NORTHAMPTON NN7 3LB UNCONDITIONAL LOVE HI, I recently came to your event in Cocks Moor Leisure Centre and really enjoyed the message I heard there. I also experienced something amazing I haven’t felt in a number of years despite attending a God-filled church: unconditional love – the love we received from everyone was amazing. Thank you all, Sharon Das BIRMINGHAM, UK For information on forthcoming Jesus Fellowship events visit www.jesus.org.uk/dates @ Subscribe to the new modern Jesus army e-mailing list and get a monthly mJa e-Streetpaper, full of inspiration, challenge and stories of lives changed by Jesus. Visit: www.jesus.org.uk/epaper JL SUBSCRIBE Jesus Life www.jesus.org.uk
The face of Elizabeth Fry is on every Bank of England £5 note – but who was Elizabeth Fry to deserve such an honour? Article by Trevor Saxby. ELIZABETH FRY was born into a banking family in Norwich, England, in 1780. When she was 18, she heard a Quaker preacher speaking and she was converted. She joined a Quaker assembly, where a woman had a prophecy for her: “You are born to be a light to the blind, speech to the dumb and feet to the lame.” She married and moved to London. Motherhood kept her so busy that after 12 years she lamented: “I fear my life is slipping away to little purpose.” How wrong she was! Another Quaker minister told her of the horrifying conditions in the capital’s prisons. Fry went to the infamous Newgate jail to see for herself. She found hundreds of women and their children living violent lives in unsanitary conditions and sleeping on the floor without bedding. Fry sprang into action. She enlisted local women to make clothes for the children. She got permission to start a school for prison children. She founded an organisation of women who would visit prisoners, pray and read scriptures with them, and provide them with materials to sew and knit goods which could be sold to give them some income. The atmosphere at Newgate changed so noticeably that Fry’s model was followed in other towns and even abroad. She became well known. She was the first woman ever to give evidence to a parliamentary select committee, leading to a series of prison reforms in the 1820s. Queen Victoria admired her and made donations. Fry’s work didn’t stop there. Even while raising 11 children and suffering from what today would be called post-natal depression, she established a night shelter for the homeless in London, campaigned for more humane treatment of orphans, began an outreach ministry to sailors and founded a school for nurses. It was nurses trained at Fry’s school who went with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea. She was incensed at the transportation of women prisoners to Australia. The night before they left, there were always riots in the prisons. The women would reach Australia penniless and with dependent children, leaving prostitution as the only option for many. She found hundreds of women and their children living violent lives in unsanitary conditions and sleeping on the floor without bedding Elizabeth lobbied parliament and personally visited all deportees, giving them materials for making clothes on the voyage which they could sell on arrival. Quakers allowed anointed women to preach, and Elizabeth did so. It is said that her voice carried such emotion that hard hearts would weep. “Let us cleave to God in spirit,” she exhorted, “and make it the first business of our lives to be conformed to His will and live to His glory, whether prosperity or adversity be our portion, and though our years pass away like a brief tale. Through His unbounded love, the blessings of the Most High will rest upon us.” Elizabeth proved it. The prophecy was fulfilled absolutely. Called “the Angel of Mercy” in her lifetime, when she died in 1845 over a thousand people lined the way to her grave, to honour the passing of a truly great woman. JL www.jesus.org.uk Jesus Life 9
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