It could never happen here?

Margaret Jones  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Sep 2001
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My children must have been about six and ten. The six year-old happily gave up her room for two of them, the other had the spare room.

'They' were three young workers from a well-known Christian organisation who had come to hold a mission in our town along with our church young people. We had a great week - even though they ate us out of house and home!

Later I was telling a non-Christian friend about their visit, touching briefly on how one had been a drug addict and another had been brought up in the atmosphere of big-city gangland. 'Weren't you frightened to have them in the house?' she asked. 'Oh no', I replied blithely, 'they've become Christians and have completely changed'. Which was true and we never had any reason to doubt it.

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