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Introducing:

We are grateful to Dennis Gurney, formerly an Archdeacon in the Gulf, for these news flashes:

THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY, QATAR.

Canon Bill Schwartz advises the construction is pressing ahead, with building now above ground. Funds are in hand to complete columns, beams and shell.

A temporary facility has been completed to allow congregations of one or two hundred to meet. Phase one of the major building is expected to be complete by February next year and that well give a total of eight worship spaces and five Sunday School rooms.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Some four hundred different congregations meet regularly for worship throughout the UAE. About two million people live in Labour Camps and are not able to get to established centres for regular worship.

JEBEL ALI CAMP

About 125 people meet every week in the desert. The darkness is only broken by two rechargeable lights and joyful hearts touched by God’s love.

AL QUOZ CAMP, DUBAI.

At Christmas 5,000 people gathered. The Bible Society in the Gulf made 15,000 books and 12,000 CDs available to the churches for those who managed to get to services.

A SAFE HOME IN DUBAI;

Every year over a thousand housemaids go through this ‘Safe Home.’

The Bible Society recently provided 150 DVDs of Gods’ Story and 200 Tagalog Bibles. A dramatised version of the New Testament (MP3) produced by ‘Faith Comes by Hearing” is being used to reach as many people as possible with the Good News of the Gospel.