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their own hands. It had happened in the past that the driver of the vehicle involved in the accident got killed. With this culture I felt it was quite hopeless to teach our students to stand up for their rights and be more courageous when facing the authorities.

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On Fridays I would often bring some students back from Tarus who wanted to spend the Saturday with their families. Some of them stayed with us for lunch. Lisa was good enough to always have some food in reserve, but at times when there were more than usual, she would give us her own portion and sometimes the food that had been put aside for the staff. By chance Alison found out about this and put a stop to it. We didn't mind sharing whatever was there, and for the students it meant a special treat in any case. On one such Friday we just managed to get home before a cloud burst came down. It was absolutely pouring. We had just finished lunch, when we heard water rushing down at the back of our yard. The rain had stopped but there was so much water, that in no time it began to rise and enter our house. We lifted everything from the floors and opened the front door, where the water could escape. But throughout the house the water was about 10 cm deep. It just reached the bottom of our cupboards, and I warned our children not to make any waves, as the water would get onto the shelves. Hans Jung came with his home movie camera to film our family and the floods in our house. After about two hours the water receded, but it left a terribly smelling brown slime behind. It took days to clean it up properly.

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The number of English speaking missionaries increased when Walt & Bev Snowa arrived from the USA late in 1970. But GMIT was not the only church to receive missionaries. The Baptist Church had a pastor from the USA and the Church & Missionary Alliance had people from the USA and Australia. We felt a need to have some services in English and invited locals and foreigners to the City Church for a weekly evening service. This went for a while but gradually it petered out. After that we tried more devotional style services in people's homes on a rotating basis. Again this was open to anyone who wanted to come. These devotions were well received, and occasionally we also held communion services in one of the churches. I found them uplifting and particularly when things had been rather hectic and turbulent, they fulfilled a deep-seated need.

On one occasion, we took a couple of visitors, who claimed to be

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