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<\/a><\/p>\nDavid and Grace have been the dearest friends to Gail, Philip and I over the years, and it was our joy to renew fellowship with them briefly last month in Malawi as they were there again in the Lord’s service, even though both of them are well advanced in years.
\nDavid is at Grace’s beside, typically, in his own words, “looking for His perfect will to be worked out.” Please uphold them both at the Throne of Grace.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n
Stephen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear friends, May I ask you to pray earnestly for our dearly beloved sister, Grace Croudace who has had a stroke and is hospitalised in Chitokoloki, Zambia. David and Grace have been the dearest friends to Gail, Philip and I over the years, and it was our joy to renew fellowship with them briefly last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/wp-image-887322630jpg.jpg?fit=500%2C281&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-nG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1386,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/thankful\/","url_meta":{"origin":1468,"position":0},"title":"Thankful","author":"Stephen","date":"7 August 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We are so grateful to the Lord for bringing the remaining members of the group safely to Malawi today. 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