Gospel News — May-Aug 2013

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Brother Jeremy wrote after returning from delivering firewood to two brothers living in really awful poverty:

We are a party of three who have left the comforts of the UK to spend 12 days in freezing Riga (temperature -12 and `feel like' temperature of -18 C as this report goes out). At home, a bit

of snow and ice can be fun once in a while, but week after week of -15 or less when you live in a single unheated room is quite another matter. Add to that having nothing to eat because you've spent all your income on medicines for your dying mother, no light except for a single candle because you cannot pay the electricity... and the reality emerges of lives that are tougher than anything we normally think of as "Dickensian". Yet some of those enduring these grim conditions are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Hence the Carelinks Winter feeding program which is about to roll into action with hot food and other support aimed at keeping our brothers and sisters from starving and freezing.

Photos: Jeremy and Mike delivering firewood to the brothers living by candlelight , huddled with all their clothes on in a literally freezing room, with the dying mother of one of them lying on a couch.

We are all very appreciative of all the support give to Carelinks and the Christadelphian Advancement Trust which enables this work to

go ahead. God willing, next Winter [November 2013 - March 2014] we are looking to repeat and expand this scheme- if you would like to get involved with cooking for one or two weeks (the work involves quite long hours and hard work), please let us know now- info@carelinks.net