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Top: Temporary home of Calvary Baptist Church. Bottom: Potluck in the patio, Calvary Baptist Church, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
I’ll take JE S U S
with m e
by Mildred Vandenburgh
W h il e I was preparing for a vacation trip to the West Indies a few months ago, I found myself humming the tune to a familiar gospel song: "If Jesus goes with me, I’ll go anywhere! T Is heaven to me where'er I may be, if He is there!” Gradually the words of the song penetrated my thoughts. But somehow they became scrambled into: “If I go anywhere, I ’ll take Jesus with me!”
undoubtedly be in Spanish, any way.” Still, I couldn’t get that topsy turvy version of the song off my m ind: “If I go anywhere, I’ll take Jesus with me.” And how could I tell God I ’d meet Him when I got home, and still ask Him to bring me home safely? I was in a quandary when I at tended our Missionary Fellowship meeting. The speaker was a mis sionary from Hong Kong, a dy- THE KING'S BUSINESS
“Yes, of course,” I soliloquized. “I ’ll take my Testament and de votional booklet in my suitcase, and tracts in my purse to leave with tips. And I ’ll pay my tithe in advance. But with six islands to see in less than two weeks, there won’t be time to hunt around for strange churches. And I just couldn’t miss that sightsee ing t o u r across Puerto Rico scheduled for my only Sunday away from home. Sermons would
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