his interest in them was personal, since he had been educated by missionaries in Rawalpindi.  And he always had a hope of helping the church in some way in return for the kindness he had been given as a boy.
Before he left us, he promised to look into allocating the Christians better land on which to build their homes.  He then said to me with a kind of a wry smile,  'It would be wonderful if you could build a school and a Church here.  It would be of benefit to the city.'
The next day on my way home, I reflected on the whole adventure:  how it had all started with a rumour on the grapevine, how five families had been reunited with their Church, how a dozen children had been baptised the previous evening among wonderful celebrations.
How wonderful and exciting is this God of ours who said I am the Vine!