Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Acts 8:4-13
by: Dorothy Noel.
When the church faced persecution, they scattered. But they did not go into hiding. It would have been much easier to move to a new place and pretend nothing had happened. But Philip did not. He kept preaching, knowing full well that persecution might be right behind him. And God worked mighty wonders through his faithfulness, resulting in healing and salvation for many. This all happened in a place most Jews would never go because of the ethnic differences between themselves and the Samaritans. But Philip knew better, and the word of God reached the hearts of a people ignored.