Article December 3, 2007 Issue

SAFE ON GOD'S HIGHWAY

XOLISWA APRIL

In her work as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, XOLISWA APRIL travels widely throughout Africa, giving talks on ways in which people can rely on prayer, based on God's love and supremacy, to overcome "lurking evil" in their communities. One of her talks is titled "Comfort in trying times."

In her home country of South Africa, where violent city crime often dominates the headlines, Xoliswa has had to pray her way through many tough situations, especially during a time when she worked in a soup kitchen serving homeless people from nearby squatter camps. She lives in the Nyanga district of Cape Town, notorious for violent robberies, but has never felt compelled to move to a safer area. She feels that her place is right where she can do most to help her neighbors, in the Biblical sense of that word.

We invited her to share just one of her recent experiences.