DAWN Fridayfax 1997 #6

DAWN News from Switzerland, USA and England

Switzerland: Money belonging to Holocaust victims being released USA: Healed of asthma, drug-addicted husband saved USA: What God joins together... England: Wait and drink some tea - a cafe owner repents! USA: Management Guru finds his master

Switzerland: Money belonging to Holocaust victims being released

Until recently, the Swiss bankers had held ranks and answered the accusations levelled against them with a blanket of silence. The accusations were that the Swiss banks had helped finance the German war effort and hidden bank accounts belonging to Holocaust victims. However, on 22 January 1997, Rainer Gut, chairman of the board of the Credit Suisse Group, broke the silence and, according to an article in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, demanded that a fund be opened for the relatives and descendants of Holocaust victims who had left money in Swiss bank accounts. The article spoke of a fund containing a considerably greater sum than the previously revealed amount of 100 million Swiss Francs (US$42 million). Gut's plan is that Swiss banks, insurance companies and the government each contribute one third of the required amount.
(Editor's note: we know of a number of Swiss Christians who have been praying for the financial reconciliation since summer 1996. This prayer is now bearing fruit.)

Source: NZZ, Friday Fax


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USA: Healed of asthma, drug-addicted husband saved

A young woman in her twenties recently stood on the podium in the Brownsville Assemblies of God church in Pensacola, Florida, and held up a plastic bag containing a number of medicines and breathing apparatus. She said that her asthma attacks had often been so bad that she had to be taken to hospital. Then, a while before giving testimony, she asked for prayer in the church; during the prayer, she felt that something was happening to her. Since that time, the asthma attacks have stopped and her lungs work normally, which she demonstrated using machine to measure lung capacity.
Normally, she reached around 80 on the scale, which has a maximum of 800; in front of the whole church, she blew into the machine twice, reaching 450 and 500 on the scale. That was not the end of the story. In tears, her husband said that his wife's faith had led him to a relationship with Christ too. He had been heavily addicted to drugs for many years, but had felt no desire to take drugs since his conversion.

Source: Brownsville Assemblies of God, 3100 West Desoto Street, Pensacola Florida 32505, USA


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USA: What God joins together...

During one of the services at the Brownsville AoG, a young divorced woman named Fonda came forward for prayer. She and her husband Tim, a worship leader in another church, had been divorced for a number of years. As Fonda went forward, she suddenly had the strange impression that Tim was also in the service. There was no reason for her impression, because they had not seen each other for a long time. Listening to her impression, she searched the congregation and discovered that Tim was present and had also come forward for prayer. That was the start of a rebirth of their marriage, but the story continues: Pastor Kilpatrick and evangelist Steve Hill were interviewed on television in Mobile, Alabama. During the interview, Steve Hill suddenly said that there was a pastor watching who would like to visit the revival services in Pensacola, but had simply not come yet. Steve encouraged him to come. Later, a pastor arrived in Pensacola and said that he had the impression that he was the pastor Steve had referred to. It turned out that he was the pastor who had performed Fonda and Tim's wedding. During a Friday evening service, he performed their remarriage ceremony.

Source: Brownsville Assemblies of God, 3100 West Desoto Street, Pensacola Florida 32505, USA


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England: Wait and drink some tea - a café owner repents!

English businessman and Christian Roscoe Patterson had been meeting the owner of a coffee shop every day for about 18 months. "I simply had the impression that it would be good to meet the man as often as possible, listen to him and drink his tea," says Patterson. "In all our meetings, I never mentioned anything Christian, and never tried to convert him." A while ago, Patterson arrived a little too early, and the coffee shop was still closed. He sat in his car just in front of the café, and read his Bible while waiting for the owner. Suddenly, someone knocked on his car window, and the coffee shop owner was standing next to his car. "That's strange," said the owner, "this morning, I saw something like a film in which you were sitting in your car and reading the Bible. I had no idea that you do that, and arrived a little early to see. And now I find you here, and you are doing just what I saw. I've been looking for God for a while. What do I have to do to find him?" They spoke and prayed together, and the coffee shop owner decided to become a Christian.

Source: Roscoe Patterson, FAX (44)-1737-215845


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USA: Management Guru finds his master

Ken Blanchard, world-famous American management guru and author of the book "The One-Minute Manager" surprised not only his top customers with his latest book "We are beloved - a spiritual journey". The top advisor and best-selling author became a Christian, and had written an 80-page letter describing his new relationship with God to his relatives and grandchildren at Christmas in 1993. By popular request, this letter then became the new book. He was led to Christ by Bill Hybels, pastor of Chicago's Willow Creek Community Church.

Source: Dr. Jorg Knoblauch, FAX (49)-7322-950157


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