A report from CSI ZIM
As near as I can tell July 12 ,2012
We just wanted to let you all know that we are facing a challenging situation here. As you all probably know, Takemore & Tracy are members here in our congregation. We call them Baba & Amai Charlene. The night before last we recieved a call from Amai saying that Baba Charlene had not come home & she didn't know why. After some investigating we found out that he had been taken to jail because a car had been stolen. He is a professional mechanic here at Nissan in town. As it turns out he happened to be the last one to have worked on the car. So he is also the last one to have seen it. Amai was very sad & was crying. The next day we took her to see him. He doesn't get fed anything there so she (or we) have to take him food. We talked to him just a little. Needless to say there were tears in all of our eyes as we talked to him through the bars. At this point he is still locked up & we don't know when he will be released. They are waiting on more information before they can let him go. So this could take a while. Amai is quite sad & fearful & wants to just be with us for now. So she has spent the night at our house. They have a 2 yr old girl & a baby boy. Last night we knelt & held hands & had a special prayer for them both. We asked God to help them to get the rest that they need & that He could grant them the courage & grace to face whatever the future holds. I just hope that they will not lose faith. We are begging for you all to pray. They are both very faithful in their spiritual lives & he takes his place quite faithfully in our services here. He does all of our translating as well as leading the Shona songs etc... because he is the only brother that we have. His small family also needs him. They miss him very much. We have only been here for 2 months but have become very close to this couple already. I will try to keep you updated as to what happens. We are going to take him food today & see him again.
Updated:
I have wonderful news this evening! We just took Baba Charlene home. He is a free man. I will briefly relate what happened today & maybe later provide more details. Samantha & I took Amai Charlene to Sherugwe this morning to see him & take him food. We were able to talk to him through the fence for 10 minutes or so. Needless to say his courage was quite low. Our courage wasn't so good either by that time. He was slammed into a very small cell with 8 or 10 other guys & by what I could see through the door opening I wouldn't have wanted to set foot in there! We sadly watched as he was led back into the cell & walked away trying to keep from crying. His boss Mabika was with us & was determined to do everything he could to get him out. We ended up staying at that police station almost all day because they kept giving us a bit of hope that something would work out. When I was almost ready to give up, the Lord provided our miracle. The car that had been stolen was found! Immediately 3 officers jumped into our car with us & off we went way back into the boonies to inspect. (remember we provide quite a bit of transport here) :) This information happened to be the missing link for them so after we inspected they told us to take them back to the station & they would withdraw the case & we could take Baba Charlene home. Of course this took a couple more hours it seemed like. They let me come back to the cell again when they let him out & I immediately threw my arms around him. He had been locked up since thursday so he seemed quite confused & not sure what was going on. His boss also gave him a big hug then we followed the case officer into his office. He had to ask a thousand more questions then they let us go. I will never forget the feeling of being able to put my arm around him & lead him out to the car. Many happy tears there were! I knew he was tired but I told him that if we could take him to our house he could have a warm shower (he didn't smell too good) & we would feed them supper. So that is what he chose to do. We had a prayer of thankgiving to God then we took them to their own house! All of your many prayers were answered! Thankyou thankyou thankyou!!!! To God be the glory!! We all are so so happy!
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