"The oldest woman, Adventist church member in Morocco, died recently at 82.
D. E., 82 , was the oldest church member from and in Morocco. She was born in Maghreb, lived in Casablanca till her death. She knew the Adventist message at the end of the 1960's in the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Casablanca. She was baptized by pastor Pellicer.
Her baptism and her decision of following the Lord was a hard and strong one. Her husband repudiated her publicly after her baptism, so did her family too. Nobody in her family took care of her anymore, since then till her passing away recently.
In those days when Dada met the Lord for the first time, the Seventh Day Adventist Church had two prosperous communities and churches, one in Medina of Casablanca, where D. E. met the Adventist Church, and another one in Tangier. It was at the beginning of the 1970's when the new monarchy expelled most of the Seventh Day Adventist Church members out of Morocco, and expropriated the most of its properties.
During these years of family loneliness, siege and prosecution from the society and the authorities, D. was often arrested accused of apostasy. Pastor John Kenf was one of the very few Adventists who could visit D. in the 1990's.
Most of the expelled church members in Morocco went to France, looking for liberty and religious freedom. Doubtlessly this venerable old woman has been an example of faith and steadiness to those few who knew her in life.
This story intends to leave an endurable testimony for the next generations, and to enlist D. as an heroine of faith.
Today, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is still with no official and recognized presence by the authorities in Morocco, but this is not an obstacle to the church members that are living their faith in secret there." SDAchurchInter-EuropeanDivision
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Her baptism and her decision of following the Lord was a hard and strong one. Her husband repudiated her publicly after her baptism, so did her family too. Nobody in her family took care of her anymore, since then till her passing away recently.
In those days when Dada met the Lord for the first time, the Seventh Day Adventist Church had two prosperous communities and churches, one in Medina of Casablanca, where D. E. met the Adventist Church, and another one in Tangier. It was at the beginning of the 1970's when the new monarchy expelled most of the Seventh Day Adventist Church members out of Morocco, and expropriated the most of its properties.
During these years of family loneliness, siege and prosecution from the society and the authorities, D. was often arrested accused of apostasy. Pastor John Kenf was one of the very few Adventists who could visit D. in the 1990's.
Most of the expelled church members in Morocco went to France, looking for liberty and religious freedom. Doubtlessly this venerable old woman has been an example of faith and steadiness to those few who knew her in life.
This story intends to leave an endurable testimony for the next generations, and to enlist D. as an heroine of faith.
Today, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is still with no official and recognized presence by the authorities in Morocco, but this is not an obstacle to the church members that are living their faith in secret there." SDAchurchInter-EuropeanDivision
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Psalm 116:15