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Subject: [GCOList] FW: SAVED BY GRACE
From: "Hal Mayer"
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:29:13 -0500
To: "GCO List"


Dear list, Tania Beavers (an Indian) is a Graduate of Hartland College working in Tamil Nadu with her husband Brian (an American) and her parents Timothy and Anita Tharasingh at a self-supporting school and orphanage there in India. The following is their harrowing, almost minute by minute account of their narrow escape from the Tsunami with their 18 children. Think what would have happened to them if they would have been sleeping in the middle of the night. Note that they had 15 minutes to get their things before the second Tsunami hit (I don’t know who Joab and Jonah are – my guess is that they are Indian workers at the school).

Regards, Hal



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Friday 24th December

0600 hrs: Timothy, Anita, Brian and Tania arrive Chennai from Mumbai by train and take a taxi to Mahabalipuram Scripture Union Seaside Camp site.

1230 hrs: Vellore CMC SDA group arrive SU Seaside Camp site taking us by surprise as this was not planned.

2030 hrs: eighteen children from Green Pastures Home School, Kalrayan Hills arrive by van at Mahabalipuram Scripture Union campsite.


Saturday sabbath 25th December

0915 hrs: Brian takes sabbath school on Daniel and Revelation for the combined GPHS and CMC groups. Pastor Kisku takes divine service with cutting message on the fallacies of the 25th of December.

1900 hrs: most of CMC group leave camp site except for two families and pastor.

1930 hrs: Brian, Tania, Anita and children on the sea shore enjoying moon rise. Return to rooms at 2100 hrs.


Sunday 26th December

0700 hrs: Anita and children go to sea shore to pray and view sunrise and enjoy nature.

0830 hrs: Anita and children return to rooms to pack and transfer luggage to first floor dormitories as rooms were required by other guests arriving that morning. Whole group gets ready to leave for breakfast by van to nearby restaurant.

0900 hrs: group leaves camp site by van for breakfast.

0930 hrs: first tsunami hits exact spot where Anita and children had been praying a half hour before. We hear the news while having breakfast and rush by van to the campsite to see water had entered the rooms and most of the three acre campsite up to about three feet high and had receded.

0945: van unable to enter campsite due to sludge. Group rushes to dormitories and retrieve bags and luggage and rush back to van. Meanwhile one small car owned by SDA doctor parked near the rooms which are quite close to the seashore was washed inland about hundred metres. Brethren manage to push car on to the highway.

1000 hrs: second tsunami hits while we make it to the highway. We decide to head for Chennai city about 70 kms away to put Brian, Joab and Jonah on the train to Madurai for a one week camp meeting. We receive warnings from oncoming cars that seawater had crossed onto some parts of the road. Group turns back and heads inland to Chinglepet station hoping to put Brian, Joab and Jonah on the train at Chinglepet station.

1200 hrs: group arrives at Chinglepet station after running gauntlet of thousands of people fleeing the sea side dwellings in fear and panic on foot clutching on to whatever they could carry. Many were mourning and crying for the loss of their loved ones. It seemed as if the Lord had opened a small window for us to see exactly what would happen at the end of time. This was no movie..

1345 hrs: train arrives Chinglepet station with Brian, Joab and Jonah's reserved seats intact. Praise the Lord!! For more than an hour two angels had kept their seats for them in spite of the train being packed. Train leaves for Madurai with three of them safe on board!

1400 hrs: Timothy, Anita, Tania and the rest of the children leave for Kalrayan hills. Arrive safely at 2030 hrs.


Following are the verses from the Bible that Anita had selected for prayer and meditation that very morning:

Job 38: 8 & 11...or who shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?....and said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

We stand in awe at the timing of His providence. Once more He has proved faithful to His word that He will never leave us nor forsake us. We are more than aware now that the time is very short and the work that we must do, we must do quickly!! Matthew 24: 7 to 13 is beginning to be played out. Please continue to pray for us. Our one week of meetings at Bombay on 'the new world order' (Brian) and 'true education' (Timothy) caused a whole group of teachers to decide to pull out their children from the present false system of education and opt for home schooling in the country!! Praise the Lord!!!

Timothy & Anita Tharasingh, Brian & Tania Beavers, and the children of Green Pastures Home School wish each one of you a blessed and happy New Year.

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Originally posted by debbie:


We need not sit in comfort thinking it will not happen here--there will seem to not be a safe place on earth for what is going to happen just before Jesus comes.

It is a wake-up call to all of us!

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