We had gone to our church that evening, and they were showing the JESUS film as it was Easter Sunday. At the end of the film the minister made an appeal and no one responded. After we arrived home I was making a cup of tea and called out to Maria and said, "I wonder if anyone was converted tonight Maria?" As I turned round she had tears in her eyes and said, "I was Dad." She was 12 years old then. I asked her what it was that made her give her life to the Lord, and she said that she couldn't get over how Jesus could have died for her. And so it was a wonderful evening and a few months later she was baptised with another girl

who was a converted Muslim from Iraq. We rejoiced, as my other two daughters had already been saved when we were in South Africa as missionaries.

Maria is now 20 and is in her second year at the London Bible College, and has just been accepted into the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Scotland. She has a beautiful voice and just wants to sing for the Lord, and so we pray that she will go on and lead others to the Lord through her testimony in song.

I hope this has encouraged you, as it has me, remembering how good the Lord has been to us and our children.

Every blessing, Rev David Brown

5 December 2002