Faith Sustained Chemidlin During Ordeal SP to Contribute to Upgrades
~£ O \X. 01 * r. to *LLJU_ if. jr. H CJ Serving Westfield, Scotch Plains and Fanwood Vol. 'c iLtm-"U| Friday, July 21,2006 50 cents ••UILi. Faith sustained Chemidlin during ordeal He says, 'I have to believe it was the will of God' PyANNAI for a moment (that) I would be pens, it raises faith," said the former THE RECORD-PRESS released," Chemidlin said in an inter- township resident, who is now plan- view last Friday, ning a move to Manhattan. SCOTCH PLAINS — As Michael Though he's finally back home, Chemidlin does not regret his trip Chemidlin lay on the ground in a he's unlikely to ever forget the experi- to the African nation, saying it was dirty prison cell in Sierra Leone, suf- ence, which is fresh in his mind and not his will, but God's. He left the fering from malaria and surrounded has left a mark on his body. Sitting in United States April 13 for what was by murderers, he never questioned an office room at Family Investors, supposed to be a month-long trip to his fate or his reason for being there. where members of his family work, meet with other Christians to start a Even though he faced up to 15 Chemidlin recalled every painful church in Sierra Leone. "I was not years in a foreign prison, Chemidlin moment spent defending his inno- proselytizing," said Chemidlin. "They remained strong in his personal reli- cence. Rubbing his shoulder, he said were already believers." gious faith, despite his weakening he is still sore after prison guards He arrived in Ghana on April 14, physical state and the stress of being repeatedly yanked him up by the ail- attended a religious conference and charged with a crime he did not com- ing arm, as he bounced from prison to then went to Sierra Leone, where he mit.
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