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Missionaries flee hotel: ‘The room began to feel hot’

A missionary who writes for en is giving thanks to God after he and his family ran for their lives when a skyscraper inferno threatened to overcome their hotel room, in ‘a traumatic and unforgettable’ night in Hong Kong.

Nicola Laver

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Reuben and Cathy Saywell and their three young sons were spending their first night in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, opposite a skyscraper construction site. Reuben had an upcoming preaching engagement at the International Baptist Church of Hong Kong (the church where Cathy was raised).