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some say that the Christians can also have the
food, but there are complaints that this
doesn’t happen, or that the rice for the Chris-
tians is urinated on by Muslim extremists. Our
association with brother Joseph, who is a long
term resident of Italy with a car, job and
apartment, was based around his interest in
our doctrinal positions; he accepted these and
was baptized earlier this year. But his passion
is to take both the Truth and also material aid
to these camps. So we rented a house in the
mountains near his town, and from there
prepared hot food which we took down to the
camps for breakfast and supper each day. We
also fed folks in the open air on a beach, at
Joseph’s house church [about 20 packed in to
his apartment] and at our rental property. This
property was providentially situated close to
a camp in a disused school high in the moun-
tains. The folks there are stranded as there is
no bus service into town, and it will soon get
quite cold. We encountered Muslim opposition
at one of the camps. We wrapped our rice and
stew in blankets to keep it warm and distrib-
uted from the car boot, in disposable dishes,
after gathering the migrants around the car
for a prayer of thanks for the food.
After feeding them they then filed back inside,
as we were not allowed into the buildings
because of Muslim tensions. We also distrib-
uted Bibles along with the food.
The folks have little to do all day. Some of the
Muslims study the teachings of Islamist
extremists all day and become radicalized by
them; whereas our folks spend their days
reading the Bibles and Bible Basics which
Joseph has already given them. It was a
pleasure to see them with those Bibles, and at
the feeding sessions at our rental home and at
Joseph’s place there were Bibles on the table
as we fed and taught them further. It was a
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