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WHEN THE HAMMER FALLS…
Testimony of a Boy Who Found Jesus Christ When He Became a Man
t was a sunny day, the same as any other day in they were seeking. The hammer of abuser. Our life
Port Elizabeth. It was 1965, and I was sitting on the judge came crashing down, w a s o n e o f
Ithe steps of the courthouse, a mere 5 years old. and my life was changed in that suspicion, fear,
Inside the courthouse a judge was deciding instant. The next day a large poverty, abuse
whether to grant my father and mother the divorce photo was in the newspaper, with and loneliness.
me sitting on the courthouse My grandfather,
steps, alone in the sun, with a who was an alco-
letter that said I was looking for a holic, brought
new father, a new mother, and a about a host of
new home. family trouble,
My testimony is much like many drunkenness,
other lives in the world. My and heartache.
mother at that moment became a But in a way he
single parent. She worked hard to was a dear, lost Pastor Graeme Weber, 083 777 0448
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years old) a life. She would wake
up at 03:00 every morning and
walk to the train station in Uiten-
hage, nearly 5 kilometres from
where we lived, travelled to Port
Elizabeth, walked a further
3 kilometres to work, and back
again in the nights, summer and
winter.
She lived with a man her whole
life. He died after 25 years of living
with us. In some ways, he pro-
vided for us, but he was also an
