trary of a hard-to-raise child and has never ever even thought of “dropping-out”. Indignant, sad and powerless in the face of this defaming campaign he continuously followed this way he felt drawn to in his heart. Since he had already realized very early that there was a big need for computer-, software- and internetwork in our ministry, he chose to become a computer specialist in the field of software development. Amongst lots of applicants he got the job in a renowned software company and showed himself to be extraordinarily gifted. He finished his training with top marks and received different diplomas, awards and prizes, for example the Apprentice Prize 2012 and the second rank in the Apprenticeship Olympics of Eastern Switzerland. Besides the very demanding training and achieving highest at school, he recruited a permanently growing internet team in our ministry and developed infrastructures and numerous internet websites (see chapter “Prophets on trial”) at the same time. In the meantime these websites have been visited by thousands of visitors. Already during the time of his training he was almost a full-time worker in our ministry. At our big events he is managing the recording team consisting of 30 people and is leading the technical team of the simultaneous translations. After having completed his training Elias decided to reduce his working time in his training company, because he also felt strongly drawn into the ministry of evaluation besides the Internet work. In the meantime he has become part-time worker in our ministry and he desires to become a full-timer as soon as the circumstances allow. – While I am still writing this text, Elias just received green light to be a full-time member in our international family support ministry. So his heart’s desire will become reality starting from March 2013 on. Since summer 2012 our sister Anna-Sophia (15) is new in the team, too. During her school time Anna-Sophia has 19
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