ANGELS ON ASSIGNMENT
This happened in 1956 during the Mau Mau uprisings in East Africa and the story is told by missionary Morris Plotts. A band of roving Mau Maus came to the village of Lauri, surrounded it and killed every inhabitant including women and children . . . 300 in all. Not more than three miles away was the Rift Valley School, a private school where missionary children were being educated away from their missionary parents. Immediately upon leaving the carnage of Lauri . . . they came with spears, bows and arrows, clubs, and torches to the school with the same intentions of complete destruction in mind. Of course, you can imagine the fear of those little inhabitants along with their instructors housed in the boarding school. Word had already reached them about the destruction of Lauri . . . there was no place to flee with little children and women. So the only resource was to go to prayer. Through the…
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