Tonight, on this Ascension Day, we want to present a tribute to Mrs. Dorothea Scarborough, longest standing board member of Frontline Fellowship and founder member of Reformation Saudi and Livingston Fellowship. Dorothea Olivet was born on Valentine's Day, the 14th of February, 1936. Here's Dorothea Olivet. I think you can see her and her children and grandchildren. She was the eldest of five children, her younger sisters, Madelaine and Wilhelmina, and her brothers, Wolf, Heinrich, and Theo. Here's an Olivet family photograph. And you can see that there, Olivet at the back, top, plainly the eldest sister, the responsible member of the family. A sled party. Imagine being brought up amongst snow. Something I can't imagine, never experienced it. Sadly, her brother Wolf Heinrich died tragically in an accident at age eight. That affects any family. Her father was a Supreme Court judge. Her brother Theo was President of the Supreme Court. An uncle was Prime Minister of Hanover. Dorothy Olivet grew up in a Europe at war. Even though very young at the time, she remembered the trauma of the Allied bombing raids starting on the 28th of March, 1942, raining death and destruction upon Lübeck, her home in northern Germany. The bombers came in three waves, causing most of the destruction on Palm Sunday, the 29th of March. The Wellington and Stirling bombers dropped over 400 tons of bombs, including 25,000 incendiary devices. Phosphorus is banned by the Geneva Convention, but it didn't stop them using it. A number of 1.8 tonne blockbusters were dropped in the first wave, opening up the brick and copper roofs of the buildings, and then the following incendiary set them afire. This was the first firestorm bombing of any city. Lubic was targeted as the very first. This is the experiment. Lubic was an historic cultural center. And you can see a city of churches and mostly wooden buildings. You can see something of the culture of this unique coastal port city, very cosmopolitan. I suppose in some ways like Cape Town, just a lot older. The bombing of 28th and 29th March 1942 left 25,000 people homeless. It also destroyed the historic Lubbock Cathedral, St. Peter's Church, and St. Mary's. Because Lubbock consisted of many timbered medieval buildings, Officer Commanding Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, described Lubbock as built more like a fire lighter. Harris wrote that Lubbock went up in flames because it was a city of moderate size. It was not a vital target, no strategic interest. But it seemed to me better to destroy a town of moderate importance than to fail to destroy a large industrial city. I don't know how people like that live with themselves and what kind of person thinks like targeting of civilian centers and starting firestorms. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin congratulated Churchill as the 1942 picture of these cozy buddy buddies, as he congratulated Churchill on the destruction of Lübeck, expressing his satisfaction at the merciless bombing and expressing hope that such terror bombings would cause severe damage to German public morale. And so they prepared the 1,000 bomber raids. And you cannot begin to imagine how many millions of tons of high explosive were dropped on Germany by the RAF and USAAF. But it was the equivalent of 50 atom bombs of the Hiroshima type in terms of destructive power and killing power, according to General Ben Parton, who pioneered strategic bombing and precision-guided weapons using laser and cruise missiles. And he said it was that study of the bombing of Germany in 1939 to 1945 that convinced them of the need for precision-guided weapons to avoid this hideous targeting of civilians. And you can see the different types of bombs being loaded up. And this is just until January the 1st, 1941. So this is just the 1940 bombings. And you'll see it includes Lubbock, although that's before the major firestorm bombing. This is just the 1940 bombings. And they came by the thousands. And this is what an artist's depiction was of some of these firestorms caused by these thousand bomber raids. The pictures of the civilians left, and it's tragic enough to bury your parents, but for parents to bury their children, that's wrong. And you can just imagine. the loss of life from these kind of aerial bombings. This is a monument in the cemetery in Lubic to remember the people who died, mostly mothers and children. And so this is the statue of the mother and two children. Actually, the morale of the citizens of Lubic held up remarkably well throughout the traumatic war. At no time did civilian morale crack, if anything, These kind of atrocities only drove the people together and made them more determined to fight to the end. Mrs. Scarborough recalled also seeing the sky red from the fires of the fire bombings of nearby Humbug and Kiel. And despite the devastation of her homeland, Dorothy Olivet grew to love the Lord Jesus Christ, to commit her life to following him and serving him. And here's a picture of her camping with her younger sister, Madeleine. And obviously, athletic, outdoors person, you can see Dorothy Olivet with the ski poles. And I presume that's her sister, Madeleine, with the cats on her shoulder. That would be Wilma. Yes, well, I think that's a very good sign when people adopt cats and cats like them. Because if a person doesn't like cats, you can't trust them. And I think you can see so much of Miss Scarborough's character right here in this lovely picture with friends by the harbour. And how she would look just shortly before meeting the man who would change her life. Charles Scarborough was born on 27th of January 1927 in Welton, East Yorkshire, the only child of Barbara and Edward Scarborough. Edward Scarborough is described as a devout father and as a child, he was a choir boy and he apparently pumped the organ at St. Helens Anglican Church in Welton. At age 27, while working as an aircraft engineer at Blackburns in Borough, he was converted in the Congregational Church. Well, that changed his life. And as a youth leader, leader of the youth club, he met his future wife, Dorothea, who looked something like this at the time. Now, Charles Scarborough is described as an escape artist. As a youth, he did escape stunts, jumping from great heights, chained and padlocked like Houdini into swimming baths. Can you imagine? And he was a skilled conjurer, and he became president of the Magic Circle of Hull. So quite a character. Charles Scarborough married Dorothy in the rebuilt Lübeck Cathedral of Lübeck, Germany in 1958, which is over 1,200 years old. It's a cathedral dating back to 800 AD. Can I stop you quickly? Yes, please. It wasn't rebuilt. The towers were missing and the snow fell on them as they were getting married. It wasn't fully rebuilt yet. It was in ruins, yes. So they were married in the ruins of the church. Thank you. That's an important fact. These are the original church bells which melted. Can you imagine what it takes to melt church bells? And they are kept as a memorial to the bombing, 1942. at Lübeck Cathedral. This is the wedding day picture. And what a couple they make. And what a lovely picture of the wedding day here. Dorothy and Charles Scarborough in Lübeck, Germany. Well, Charles Scarborough, middle back row, tallest one there, graduated from Peyton Theological College, named after John Peyton, the great missionary to the Pacific Islands. In fact, John Payton is quite an amazing character. He was 30 years a missionary to the cannibals in the South Seas. And you can understand why the Congregational Church would want to name their theological college after a man like that. And so Dorothy and Charles Scarborough having tea in the garden in England, and one day when it wasn't raining. It must have been an occasion. And here, I think, visiting her parents in Germany, in Lübeck. So that would be a father and that would be one of her sisters. Do you know which one? That would be Madeleine, the second oldest. Well, Charles Scarborough was later called to the ministry at Cemetery Road Congregational Church in Sheffield. A lovely old church. And so Dorothea was pastor's wife in Cemetery Road Congregational Church Sheffield with all the duties that went along with that. A very lovely old classic English church. And I think you can see how Miss Scarborough has always been very elegant, very prim, proper, well-dressed and stylish. Probably first child and visiting family in Germany, this looks like Dorothea Scarborough's father and probably her brother, the one who became President of the Supreme Court. And here with They're two children, Thomas and Anne. And I don't know who the other people are here, but they must have been friends. And enjoying one of the days in England when it didn't rain, when the sun actually shone. Well, one of his duties as pastor was he was, Charles Scarborough was seeking to recruit people for the London Missionary Society. And there was one post he could not fill, and that was to the Gilbert Islands in the South Seas. At one point, his wife turned to him and said, Can't you see Charles, God is calling you to go. And so they ended up being missionaries with the London Missionary Society on the equator in the Gilbert Islands. Now, where is the Gilbert Islands? It's right on the equator in the Pacific Ocean. And that means if you go directly north from New Zealand and you go from Papua New Guinea out to the east, you should roughly get the Gilbert Islands. So not far from, well it's far from everywhere actually, but it's in the region of New Zealand, Australia, and you can see here today they have renamed the whole island set. The Gilbert Islands have been now named Kiribati. And notice here on this Beirut Island, they've got the London Missionary School is marked right smack in the middle with that green spot. So the LMS Missionary School, obviously very historic, beginning of civilization, everything else in this island. So Kiribati is the national capital. The Gilbert Islands are now called Kiribati. Interestingly, the northern part of the Gilbert Islands used to be called the Scarborough Islands. And the grandson of the Scarboroughs is now a youth pastor in Scarborough in the Cape Peninsula. Just for, how's that for strange? Well, here's the locals waiting for the missionary ship and you can see the missionary ship out there and the missionary ship is called the John Williams. Now who was John Williams? Here we can see Charles Scarborough with his children, Anne and Thomas on the John Williams. Well, John Williams was a famous London missionary, Saudi missionary, who was commissioned on the same day in the same service in LMS as Robert Moffat, except Robert Moffat came to the Cape and translated the Bible into the Chino language, the first language in Africa to get the complete Bible. And so that was Robert Moffat. Well, John Williams went to the Pacific, Micronesia, and he planted a lot of schools, a lot of churches, did a lot of translation work, and for 25 years served the Lord and was finally killed and eaten by cannibals on these islands. I think it was Tana. Is that correct? I think so, on Tana. And so it was to these general islands that the Scarboroughs arrived, the descendants of the cannibals who ate John Williams. And they got a much more pleasant welcome. here by the old men. And you can see the people have their flower rings around their heads. I never saw Charles Scarborough wearing those sort of flowers in his hair, but presumably that was considered socially acceptable over there. Notice the mats. I think that those are the couches, the chairs of the Gilbert Islands. And you can see Dorothea Scarborough right in the middle there of this group at the church at Tamana. And what a magnificent London Missionary Society church they've built on an island where everyone lived in grasshuts. Anne and Thomas and Timiti. They must have been family, friend, cook, and everything else. Maniba Meeting House. It looks like they've used brick and thatch. And this would be the general purpose meeting house, church, probably school. maybe even all for any other purposes as well. Here you can see the missionary wife and children. In fact, you look at this and you think you're looking at Anne Moore, but you can see her mom all the way there. And this island was not very big, not many mountains at all. Homeschooling was the only option, of course. That's one of the advantages of going to some island in the middle of nowhere. You don't have the government harassing you. Ron Gorongo School. Ron Gorongo. and some students that were picking up from the islands. Mrs. Scarborough gave a story once about how a whole lot of the students who were graduating and they were going to be sent out as church planters to the other islands. And it was policy of London Missionary Society that they wouldn't send out single missionaries. They had to be married. There was a whole lot who were still single. So Charles Scarborough put to them. Right, we're going to leave you alone for an hour or two, and then you've got to choose who you're going to marry. When we come back, we must all decide who's going to marry who. And so the graduation could continue, and they could be commissioned and sent out. And apparently, it all worked out fine, and they made their arrangements quite promptly. This is the Women's Association. And Thomas and Anne were village girls. It looks like Thomas was doing what boys do, which is getting into scrapes and getting a bandage on his knees and all of that. So after serving four years for the London Missionary Society, Charles Scarborough oversaw the independence of the Gilbert Islands Protestant Church, which was not what the locals wanted. The locals wanted the missionaries stay, but due to a World Council of Churches directive on the Monatorium on Missions, which was launched in 1968, all Mishni should be withdrawn from the field, which of course some said is ridiculous, but there were some who followed with us. And so they were ordered to hand over to the locals and the locals were pleading with tears for them to stay. But they were recalled and on the way back from the Gilbert Islands, they stopped in Cape Town, went to Seapoint to the Congregational Church and the local church leapt upon this Mishni en route back to England from the Gilbert Islands and gave him a call. And so, Dr. Scarborough accepted the call, and for 25 productive and fruitful years, he was the pastor at Seapoint Congregational Church. And I just love all these hats that Mr. Scarborough had. There's some very stylish hats, which I don't know if this collection still exists, but wow. I mean, look at that hat too. I don't know, but this looks like Elise Porter. I think so, the president's wife at the time. So there must have been some very auspicious events at different times in the Seapoint Congregational Church Hall, if I've observed it right. And these would have been some of the women at Seapoint Congregational Church. You can see Miss Garber, front, second from the right, front row. And a lot of people have hats on. and some have wigs. Here's another one of these great hats of Miss Scarborough, Seapoint Congregational Church on a Sardine Sunday. Whatever Sardine Sunday is, never heard of that before, but it looks like a great Sunday school at Seapoint, and again one of these very stylish hats. Charles and Dorothy Scarborough are in the forefront of launching the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches, the EFCC, When they came here, the Congregational Churches belonged to the Southern Council Churches, which meant they were part of the World Council Churches. The very World Council Churches just called for moratorium on missions and called for all the missionaries to return from the field. which seems the exact opposite of Christ's command of the Great Commission. And of course, the World Council Church was doing all kinds of other nefarious activities, like supporting terrorists, murdering people in Rhodesia and Mozambique and Angola and so on. And for those and many other reasons, such as their rejection of the inerrancy of scripture, the Scarboroughs launched the Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches and pulled a whole lot of these congregations away from the World Council Churches into an evangelical body, which still exists today. and were, in fact, running the funeral service on Saturday. Ms. Scarborough served as Secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship Congregational Churches for years and years, and she is the first EFCC Lady Lay Chairman as well. Again, amazing hats. I think if you put this collection out, it would be quite a museum piece. For many years, Mrs. Scarborough also led the Women's World Day of Prayer. And if you're wondering where Mrs. Scarborough is, she's the tallest one in the back row, right in the center at the back. And at the Women's World Day of Prayer 100th anniversary, and again, what a hat. I don't know why women don't wear hats more these days. I mean, they've just got so much style about them. But Women's World Day of Prayer, Here's one of the Women's World Day of Prayer services in Seapoint Congregational Church. And Ms. Scarborough was awarded an honorary life membership of Women's World Day of Prayer. She was chairman of this for a very long time. And here, ministering in Carlicio with Professor Motschmann. And Ms. Scarborough in Coburg, in Germany, speaking to the HIFS committee, Sytlex Afrika. Now this must have been Anne and John's wedding day, but this is Dorothy and Charles Scarborough with their son Thomas, grandson Matthew, and daughter-in-law Miriam from Switzerland. Did I get all that right? And Anne, the bride, well Charles Scarborough doesn't look as nervous and so on as I felt on the day of the night to walk Andrea down the aisle. Bishop Frank Retief was part of the service and so you can see that Thomas became a minister in the Congregational Church and an artist and a lot more than that too. And the wedding party at the venue? Where would this be? Is this also at Seapoint Congregational Church? Yes. So the extended family at that time, I don't know when I've seen a groom wearing white, but that must have been a real fashion statement. Very impressive. And Anne's mural, where would this be? Greenfield School. Well, this is one of the pictures I got from Mrs. Scarborough, so she liked it. And I wondered if this was Grecian or if this was meant to be the Gilbert Islands. What's it modeled on? Just coastal scene? Fantasy. There we go. Charles Scarborough, after 25 years at Seaport Congregational, served for three years as pastor of Holy Trinity Church, which is where the funeral took place on Saturday, which is Holy Trinity Church of England Gardens, the oldest church of England in the country, by the way. And he also ministered at Maranatha Free Congregational Church in Pall, and served at Maitland Congregational Church, and preached in many other places. Here, they were hosting the World Evangelical Congregational Fellowship in Cape Town. Here it looks like Penny was being introduced to some more magic tricks by Grandad. This apparently is the last family picture all together with Charles Scarborough at the head of the table and that must be Matthew on the far left. And I presume this is Jeremy and then we've got Angie. and Penny must be standing next to her mom, Anne. So that's the last family picture at the family home in Rugby. Dorothea Skarb was also editor of the international German language magazine, Vox Africana, and UKENEWS. Now, Gunnar Vibhalkya wrote UKENEWS for many years, something like 10 years, and then When he left South Africa for Switzerland, Mrs. Scarborough took over the German euconews, and I took over the English euconews on Lion's Head on this occasion. Mrs. Scarborough also founded the Gospel Defense League, which grew to a phenomenally large readership. At one time, it even touched 18,000 on the mailing list. That's back when we had a postal service that worked. And when postal stamps didn't cost an arm and a leg, I remember my first mailing was $0.04 an envelope. And I thought that was pretty good. And remember, when it moved up to five cents, I thought, that's terrible. I mean, who can afford posting anymore? Little did we know what was still coming up when the Postal Service couldn't even deliver things. Some of Mrs. Scarborough's publications had over 100,000 copies printed. It's been my privilege to know Mrs. Scarborough for almost 40 years. After my first mission to Mozambique in 1982, Mrs. Scarborough invited me to speak to one of her women's meetings in Rosebank and interviewed me for Vox Afrikaner. And before Frontline Fellowship had an office or a photocopy, Mrs. Scarborough invited me to come to her home office. So Gospel Defence League was where I would go on my motorbike to make copies of our Frontline Fellowship newsletters or Bible study lecture notes. And Miss Scarborough was one of the first of our board members. Father Arthur Lewis was the very first. She was the second board member of Frontline Fellowship. And she became one of my most trusted advisors and an invaluable member of the board of Frontline Fellowship, involved in all sorts of activities. Never missed our public meetings where they're held in town halls. The Biblical Worldview Seminar here held, Ms. Scarborough's right at the back there. I don't know if you can spot, just back towards the right. And this is one of our last of the Biblical Worldview Summits held at Glenvale Bible College back in 1994. And this is the 2005 Biblical Worldview Seminar. And you can see Dr. Fritz Hauss, my Altestan professor, right smack in the middle of the front row, Ms. Scarborough to his side. And they were speaking at our Biblical Worldview Summits, and that was always a major highlight. There's many a time when Miss Scarborough was my main and sometimes my only encourager, supporting me in ventures and in stands, which most others sought to discourage me from taking. There's many a time the entire, everyone in the mission were, no, this can't be done. It's too reckless. It's too dangerous. You can't do it. Too controversial. And Miss Scarborough would sometimes be the only other person who stood with me and said, yes, this is what you've got to do. She understood the mission of Frontline Fellowship. And she has a most firm and faithful friend, steadfast, absolutely rock solid steadfast. After the death of my mother in 2001, Mrs. Scarborough came to me and said, as your mother is gone, let me do the duty of your mother and advise you. And she would rebuke me and correct me and urge me to take time to rest and recuperate. And she encouraged me to ignore the malicious, backbiting, and attacked by antagonists. She motivated greater efforts to advance the Kingdom of God. She was invaluable. She was very quick to stand up and speak out on our behalf. Mrs. Scott was a missionary, mother, motivator, and mobilizer of prayer. Many were the projects, and the publications, and the outreaches, and campaigns, and events which we planned and worked together on, including SACL. 1985, we were delegates, along with Gerhard Niels, another missionary, to SACL, which was held up in the Transvaal. And this was an evangelical conference, South African Conference of Evangelical Leaders, which was being hijacked from the beginning, I'm afraid. The whole organizers, the whole purpose was to, railroad us into a anti-Sarachen government, pro-ANC, pro-Mandela, end state of emergency, release Mandela, unban the ANC, a whole liberation theology agenda under the guise of being evangelical. Well, it made a serious mistake. They invited me as a speaker. I was actually a speaker at this conference, which was something I'm sure they regretted. because they thought I was some dumb theological student just graduated, and because I'd been to Mozambique, they assumed that I was a communist sympathizer. I obviously misunderstood. And so I was able to demolish a lot of what they did. The man who spoke before me was called Caesar Mollobazzi, who was a rabid liberation theologian, although masquerade as an evangelical. And so my first words were, it falls upon me to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And you could imagine there was an absolute uproar when I cut directly across everything Cesar Malabarzi had been saying after he'd been introduced as this wonderful, et cetera, et cetera. And my support from the floor only came from Gerhard Niels of Life Challenge and Mr. Scarborough. And the whole conference went into apoplexies. You could not believe the panic that the carefully orchestrated railroading of us just got derailed by a few missionaries. And so you actually had People standing up, like Caesar, saying, all missionaries are racists. And Gerhardt Neal stood up and said, just listen to yourself. All missionaries are racists? Why would they be missionaries if they were racists? And as he went into all the, it's just insane, but the hysteria. So at one point, they were trying to get us to adopt some statement which was radical. and clearly a lot of people were following our lead and so they declared a day of fasting. And then at the end of the day, they tried to get the people to vote. And then they could see the vote was going to go against this. So they then extended it with more and more and more. And they were carried on until 3, 4 in the morning, hoping to tire people out so most people would go to bed. And then they could pass it. And they still couldn't get it passed. So after several failed attempts, they declared that they couldn't vote there. It'll be done by postal vote. Now, we're at the conference, really. Anyway, we so derailed at the SACL conference. You can't find anything on the web about it because it was a failure. And they blamed Mr. Scarborough, Gerhard Nielsen, I for that. Then in 1986, along came the archbishop and the Bible. So arch heretic Desmond Tutu was about to get enthroned. And so Dorothea Scarborough pulled out her pen and produced a comparison of on one side what Tutu says and the other side what the Bible says, which is more a contrast actually. But when you look at the cover, you wouldn't necessarily think that it was negative. And so in a run up to the enthronement ceremony at The Cathedral of St. George in Cape Town Gospel Defence League printed 100, well they first printed 10,000 copies, but later it turned out to be 10,000 with the reruns. And they compared the public statements of the tutor with the clear teachings of scripture. And these compact booklets with the purple insignia of the Archbishop on the cover were distributed to delegates and guests as it came to the event. So I was at Cape Town International Airport as these clergymen with their gowns and their frocks and their massive hats and their crooks and so on walking off the plane. I stand there handing them these booklets, welcome to Cape Town, and I thank you so much, and God bless you, my son, and all that sort of thing. And they probably thought this is part of the official welcoming committee. And we got 1,000 of these posters, which was actually done by Ada Parker put up on all the lampposts leading into Cape Town for the day, so when people were driving into Tutors and Thrones, this is what they were seeing on the lamppost. And that was 7th of September, 1986. 7th of September, my mother's birthday. It was a huge mob of tutu supporters in the streets, a lot of international media was present, and three of our people dressed in black, including Guinevere and Cindy Leoncinis, walked slowly, solemnly towards the side of St. George's Cathedral, and they actually solemnly laid a wreath against the stone walls of the church, and they stood back and answered a prayer. The question, what does this mean? What are you doing this for? And they said, we're doing this in memory of the Anglican Church. There's an explosion of anger, outrage from the mob. One of the thugs screamed at Cindy Leon Sinas with his finger in her face, we will necklace you. More threats and curses followed. As the mob surrounded me, I was challenged, why are you distributing these anti-Tutu booklets? I said, they're not anti-Tutu, they're pro-Christ. We're calling people back to the Bible. What do you see is wrong with Tutu? I said, he's man-centered, he's not Christ-centered. His solutions are political, not spiritual. Do you disapprove of Tutu's enthronement as Archbishop? Yes, certainly, I replied. I believe that Churchill, he should be a man of God, a man of prayer, not a man of politics. But Tutu's a man of the people, I said. Well, maybe so, but he's not a man of God. But a man of God must be a man of the people, I said. And I said, rubbish. God must be a man of the Bible, capable of preaching repentance to sinful, rebellious mankind. We must not be man-pleasers, we must be people who seek to please God. But the people have elected Tutu, they shouted. Quite right, God has not elected him. People have chosen, which people? The press has catapulted Tutu into this office. Not God, not the ordinary church people. Why are you here attacking Tutu? They asked. I'm here standing for Christ, calling church to return to biblical standards, to reject worldly standards, to return to God. Why? You don't belong here. Why have you come? They asked. I said, why have you come? Are you an Anglican? No. Are you an Anglican? I turned to another. No. Are you a Christian? I asked. Do you love Jesus? I am against apartheid. Well, the issue is not apartheid. I said, it's God and your relationship with him. Are you born again? I'm against apartheid, came the monotonous parrot cry. I said, fine, we know what you're against. What are you for? At this point, the man broke into hateful curses, swearing at me, and I said, so you see, these are the kind of supporters that Tutu has. And then as I started more curses, I said, I don't see the love of Christ in your faces. I don't see Christian love in your eyes, only bitterness and hate. Repent of your evil. Repent of your hatred. Turn from your sins. Turn to Christ. Well, there was a shock sound and there's more hateful threats and curses and accusations. But while all this conversation was going on, I could see, because I was facing the cathedral, they were all facing me, I could see the Bishop Tutor come out of a side door and he's standing at the top of the stairs by these big double doors. He was dressed in this full bishop's regalia with his large shepherd's crook in his hand. And he was at the point in the program where he was to lift up a stick and bang on the doors. And in preparation, the doors being flung wide open in grand procession while the people sang and so on. But none of the media were on the stairs. They were all around me and Cindy Leon Cedars. So he was plainly agitated. You could see Tutu sort of trying to call the people his, you know, shame, I mean, his big moments and we were distracting the press. So finally, the journalists realized they were missing out on this grand entrance, and as they positioned himself in a semicircle around Desmond Tutu to record his dramatic entry into the cathedral, there was a moment of silence as he lifted his crook to whack the door, and one of our mission workers, John, John Brum, bellowed out his extradition light infantry chap, you have chosen Barabbas! Everyone on Wall Street heard this, and Desmond Tutu looked over his shoulder. I mean, all the press looked. They all got the message. The Soweto and the Star report the next day, a small group of vigorous protesters from Christian Action nearly overshadowed the main event, which is true. After the ceremony at St. George's Cathedral, Tutu held an open-air Eucharist for thousands of people in the Cape showgrounds in Goodwood, which is now Grand Theft. Sorry, Grand West. And he invited Ewan Busack and Albertina Sesulu to give political speeches there. So we were standing at the entrance to what today is Grand West, handing out booklets as people come into Goodwood Showgrounds. Enjoy the show, I'd say. And people, again, took these booklets like they were the official program. Thank you so much, brother. And so a lot of evangelistic discussions and opportunities for counseling and prayer resulted from these outreaches. And this is just an example of one of the kinds of activities we were involved in. Then it was Kirshentog. Kirshentog is a misnomer. It's five days, not one day, and it doesn't have much to do with the church. 1987, this is the United Christian Action, there's the UCA sign, United Christian Action team. There was 18 of us who came up from South Africa, and there's about four German hosts here. So you can see Dorothea Scarborough is at the back, partly to the left. I'm tucked away at the back there on the right. And this is Cindy Leon Sinas with Prince von Isenberg, in a very undignified pose there. But Gunnar Vibhalk, who was then General Secretary of United Christian Action. That is Mrs. van Kook of Patmashastraat Gevalt. She was one of the hosts. And Farnus Abisi of Kwasa Bantu mission here. Interestingly, that's Muzi Kaneni, the ANC spy, who is central to the attacks on Kwasa Bantu these days, who said that he joined Kwasa Bantu in 1979 at the command of the ANC to infiltrate Kwasa Bantu. And when Mandela became president in 1994, He said he never was a Christian, and he joined National Intelligence Service, and his main job since then was to smear and destroy, character assassinate any enemies of the ANC that they want to smear. So Muzi Kaneni is in prison right now for murder, a very brutal murder. Not one the government gave him to do so. But anyway, he's a key player in the exodus attack on KSB and so on. But Mozi Kaneni back then was still playing that he's one of us. So it's an interesting group of people. Do you see this girl in the wheelchair here? I don't know if you can see that she's in a wheelchair. This is Pansy Shlopani. So Pansy Shlopani is 18 years old at this time, 1987. Her father, Bartholomew Chlapani, was a Politburo member of the Southern Communist Party. He went to Senator Jeremiah Denton's commission on Soviet control of the ANC, SWAPO, PAC, and so on. And he testified that Colonel Joe Slover was the KGB colonel who was the controller for Mandela-in-Love, the ANC, Southern Communist Party chief at the time. And he testified that the ANC was nothing but a puppet for the Southern Communist Party, which was completely controlled by the Soviet Union, KGB and so on. And Bartholomew Chlopani testified this dissent to Jeremiah Denton, came back to South Africa and was murdered in December 1982. His wife was murdered, he was murdered in a home in Soweto, and his daughter was paralyzed. And so there's Pansy in this wheelchair. She's right in the middle. And so we took her up there. Gunnar Wibock organized this. We were the delegation from Unite Christian Action going up to Kirchentag in Germany, Frankfurt, at a critical time when Germany was under major pressure to put sanctions on South Africa, as was Britain. But Britain and Germany were still dealing with South Africa economically, although America was not. And so a lot was hanging on us. And as a result, we were there in order to speak up for Christians across the spectrum against sanctions, that that would do no good and it would do any harm to people. And I still believe that. I don't believe sanctions are the way to go, not with Russia. over Ukraine, I don't believe in sports boycotts, I don't think it's ever good, I don't think any sanctions is helpful at all. And I can tell you as someone who's brought up in Rhodesia under total sanctions, all sanctions did was make us more united and more innovative and in fact improved the economy because the funds stayed within instead of going out to other companies. Still, we were there and this Kurshentag was quite an experience. So we're talking about Frankfurt, smack in the middle of Germany. And Frankfurt's a major industrial centre, but the Lutheran Church, the Lutheran World Federation, was having their Kirchentag, their church day, which was five days, in 1987 there, and we were delegates. Now this isn't taken there. But it's an English example of what I saw there. There was a, at Kirchentaug, they wouldn't allow the pro-lifers into Kirchentaug because they were too controversial. So the eight pro-life organizations in Germany were excluded from Kirchentaug. But the ANC and SWAPO and Philimo and the Sandinistas, they had stalls at Kirchentaug. That wasn't a problem. The LGBT had stalls. That wasn't a problem. The pro-lifers were demonstrating outside the venue. And there was a counter-demonstration on the property of where the Kirchenthal was being held. And one of the people had a sign in German, oh, Professor Ernst, what a pity your mother didn't abort you. Sorry, I didn't have a camera to get a picture of that. Another one was, if only Mariette had an abortion, we wouldn't have these problems today, written in German. So I've seen this kind of sign of three different occasions in my life. So that was the mentality at Kirchenthal. Kirsten Tag was bizarre, absolutely bizarre. We were forbidden, we had brought some proteas. Gunnar Wibach had bought a bunch of proteas in Jansmann's airport to decorate our display table for Unite Christian Action and Patnerschaft Stadtgewalt was a local German host. And we were told we had to take the proteas off because proteas are racist flowers. But God made, the protest, still. We had some lovely pictures of Dutch-formed missionaries dealing with blind children at Dinganstad, walking them through the river, and some lovely missionary pictures. We had to take this down. They were considered paternalistic. I would have thought paternalism is a good word. It means fatherly, but apparently it's a swear word already by 1987. We had a few other bizarre things happen at Kirshen Tag. One of the strange, I had conversations with SWAPO, PAC, all sorts of people there, and quite, quite extraordinary. In fact, one of the conversations with a SWAPO terrorist, I've made a chapter in, the book, Frontline, Behind the Middle Lines for Christ, because it was so revealing and intriguing what he had to say. But not only that, the guest speaker at the main communion service, which was held outdoors at Kirschenthal, was Alan Bursack. And I heard Alan Bursack say, because he doesn't speak German, he has been translated, so he's saying in English, out of the ashes of Pretoria will arise the new Jerusalem. Out of the ashes of Pretoria. will arise in New Jerusalem. I mean, what kind of sick liberation theology Marxist diatribe is that? Very bizarre. But that was Kirschenhoff. We had some serious battles there. But these were all battles in the World War of Worldviews, fighting the good fight of faith, exposing and opposing false teaching. opposing unbiblical heresies and Marxist liberation theology and other threats to the Christian Church. Here Mrs. Scarborough and I are with ACDP people Steve Swartcher and Dudley with our hearse on the 1st of February outside Parliament protesting against the legalisation of abortion in the country. We were involved in debates with liberation theologians in townships, at church conferences and university campuses. Mrs. Scobb was relentless and always up to go into some weird, wonderful place for some kind of debates and events, whether it was Stelmach University or Khayelitsha. And here, Cape Town City Hall. And on the streets outside Parliament, many were the demonstrations that we were involved in and organized. And, for example, the imprecatory prayer proclamation, which I delivered to Thabo Mbeki, calling for him to repent, or that we pray that his days in office would be few and another would take his place. Even the wording wasn't our wording, we were taking it actually from John Knox's prayers for Mary, Queen of Scots. And sure enough, Taubman Baker got kicked out of his own party just a few months later. Had a hundred pastors sign us in Cape Town. back when we could get 100 pastors to sign something calling for the government to repent from having legalized abortion and pornography. And up at UCT, all kinds of activities that we've been involved in, national days of prayer and repentance, marches to Parliament, protests against the government, and Gospel Defense League was a key part of all of these events and initiatives, calling people back to the Bible. Mrs. Dorothea Skob was faithful, dependable, courageous, principled, steadfast, fervent, dedicated, and relentless. Dorothea Skob was a formidable defender of the faith. She was also a founding member of the Reformation Society. When I came back from Europe, early 2005, after five week, 11 country mission day, and I put this forward, she was one of the first, and when we start our regular meetings, it was Miss Scarborough, Helga, right at the beginning from January 2006, our Thursday night meetings, didn't miss many. The battle cries of the Reformation, mobilized by Martin Luther, were Solus Christus, Christ alone is the head of the church. Solus Scriptura, scripture alone is our authority. Sola gratia, salvation is by the grace of God alone. Sola fide, justification received by faith alone. And soli deo gloria, everything is to be done to the glory of God alone. She was also found a member of Livingston Fellowship, January 2006. And for 15 years, Dorothy Escobar attended the Thursday night Reformation Society meeting, sitting prominently at the head of the table in her distinctive position and the Reformation Society meetings. Here, again, you can see Ms. Cobb with one of her favorite jackets. And many of our early members visible right there. And Livingston Fellowship Services at Livingston House, which at first, Bill Bethlen was a key part of. Dorothea Cobb is also an enthusiastic supporter of our Reformation 500 movement, which has involved so many activities, not only across South Africa and across Africa, but across the world. and the different Reformation 500 stands. She never missed a Reformation Day event at the Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek. Here you can see Dorothea Scarborough right in the front, and Helga there, and a whole lot of our other good friends that we can remember from just one of many events at the Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek. And as she said at one of these events, she comes on all events. who were Huguenots who fled France in 1688 and went to Prussia, to Germany, and from there, of course, to the Cape. There were many seminars, conferences in Frantzschek that we held over the years for the Reformation 500 Back to the Bible Movement. Most impressive of all was 2016 when we brought in the Eurochoir. and at the outreach in the waterfronts, and at Wellington, at Franschhoek. Even as her body grew older and weaker, her mind was sharp. In her incisive analysis, her convictions were like iron. Mrs. Scott was gracious and friendly, but make no mistake, she had the doctrinal backbone of steel. She would not back down. She would not bow. She would not bend on any matter of biblical faithfulness, truth, and principle. She was a fighter. The scripture says it's better to go to a funeral than to go to a party because the living should always remind themselves that death waits for us all. There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven. There's a time to be born and there is a time to die. There's one appointment that one of us will miss. In fact, none of us will be able to be late for this appointment. It is appointed unto man once to die and after that to face judgment. There's nothing more certain in death and nothing as uncertain as the time of dying. We should therefore be ready at all times for that which may come at any time. This picture is of a lovely evening when I picked up Mr. Scarborough to go and listen to Lenora's choir singing in City Hall, Steiner's Crucifixion, which is a magnificent rendition and what a wonderful venue as well. We do not know when or under what circumstances our lives will come to an end. But we do know that when we die, we will stand before mighty God, our creator and eternal judge. And we will have to give an account of our lives to him. Jesus said, do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come out. Those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive what is due him for the things done in the body, whether good or bad. I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve. 2 Chronicles 16 verse 9, for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him. The Lord is looking for hearts that are loyal to him to strengthen him. Dorothea Scarborough's heart proved loyal to our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Lord strengthened her. And I saw the dead great and small standing before the throne, and books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged according to what they'd done as written, recorded in those books. If anyone's name was not found in a book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. At death, we leave behind everything we have. We take with us everything that we are. The character with which we die is the character with which we'll appear at the day of judgment. If you are prepared to die, then you're prepared for anything. Remember Anthony Stunder said to me, reporting back after visiting with Scarborough said, she is ready and prepared to meet the Lord. How many people can say that? Until you're free to die, you're not free to live. It ought to be our business every day to prepare for our last day. If we take care of our life, God will take care of our death. Being mindful of death should make us serious and industrious and conscientious. Life is full of choices. We can make over 100 choices in a day from deciding when to get up, what clothes to wear, what to have for breakfast, what things to do, how to do them, where to go, what route to take, when to accelerate or stop, who to phone, what emails to respond to, what articles to read. Choices, all day long we're making choices from the trivial and the routine to the important and the vital. Choices that affect our relationships, our health, our safety and our security. Well, today at Mrs. Scarborough's memorial service, on this Ascension Day, you should make another choice. Where are you going to spend eternity? Some of us have already made that choice and can say, I have decided to follow Jesus. No turning back, praise the Lord, no turning back. Others may not want to think about eternity right now, but in time, death will come to us all, and we should soberly consider our mortal soul and the day that we will stand before our eternal creator and give an account of our lives. This Christ did for you. What have you done for him? But at that point, our choice will be final. What will God say to you on that day of judgment? Will you hear, well done, good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your Lord. God is just and merciful. He is holy and he is loving. And every one of us here has a we've got to choose to face the reality that we only have one life and it'll soon be past and only what's done for Christ will last. Are we living in accordance with the creator's instructions in the manufacturer's handbook in the Bible? Are we loving God and loving our neighbor? Do we forgive others when they offend us? Each one of us needs God to forgive us, so we need to forgive our loved ones Whatever we may have against him, we dare not carry grudges or bitterness or unforgiveness in our heart. We need to forgive one another as God and Christ has forgiven us. Many religions believe in an afterlife, but what is unique to Christianity is a distinctive belief in the resurrection of the body. Christ's resurrection guarantees that those who die believing in him shall one day be raised in his likeness to be with him forever. Through Christ, death has lost its sting. we can face death and assure knowledge that Christ has delivered us from the coming rough and from eternal judgment. Our Lord Jesus Christ declared, I am the resurrection life. No one comes to Father except by me. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies. I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, neither present nor future, nor any past, neither height nor depth, nor anything in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. We praise God that Dorothy Escobar knew the love and salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ, and she served God so faithfully throughout her life on earth. Who can calculate how many lives she has impacted through her faith and her writings? We grieve, but we do not grieve as those who have no hope, for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Dying, Christ destroyed our death. Rising, Christ restored our life. Jesus said, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned. He has crossed over from death to life. Death for the Christian is not fatal and death for the Christian is not final. We serve a risen savior. Jesus is the resurrection and the life. So the question is, where will you spend eternity? Some of us have already made that choice. So as we gather at this memorial service, we should soberly consider our mortal soul and consider the day that we'll stand before our creator and give an account of our life. What will God say to you and I on that day? Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. Mrs. Scarborough was wise, and she turned many to righteousness by faithfully standing up for Jesus, contending for the faith once delivered to the saints. Ecclesia reformata reformanda est. The church having been reformed is still to be reformed. A mighty fortress is our God. Dorothy Scarborough can truly say at the end of her long and productive life on earth, I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I've kept the faith. And so it's in sure and certain hope of the resurrection that we praise God for the life and legacy of Ms. Dorothy Escobar. We have got on the table newsletters, the latest Gospel Defense League. Ms. Escobar handed to me a few years ago the responsibility of carrying on the work of Gospel Defense League. I've put some of the GDL letters at the back. We just finished yesterday a tribute to Ms. Dorothy Escobar, which has got some pictures. most of the text of tonight's inn. It's on the table there. The order of service for the funeral on Saturday. We've got copies here for anyone who wants, with the lovely pictures there. And you'll see other lecture notes for Ascension Day, upcoming events, and newsletters on the table. Please help yourself. Are there any questions, comments, anything anyone wants to add? or correct. Yes, Alfa. So I wanted to talk about the statement you said, out of the ashes of Pretoria will arise the new Jerusalem. You said it was an evil statement. And my question is, would it have been like that verse I've been saying, that out of the ashes of Pretoria, which means that Pretoria is sinful, just like the rest of the people. Use it for good, I would say. No, I don't think that was his intention. I mean, that's a good question as to whether it means it. In fact, this 1666 and the Sabbatean Roots of the New World Disorder, which is the latest GDL just produced now and about to go to printer, this speaks about the Sabbatean occultic view, which is foundational for Marxism, which is you've got to burn everything down to build back better. It's basically like the evolutionary view. Evolution, much of it believes once upon time there was nothing, then there was something, and that something became everything. There's a big explosion. And so out of an explosion, out of destruction, comes new life. And so the Marxists believe you've got to burn everything down, blow enough things up, and then paradise comes out of it. So it's a Marxist or Sabbatean, Luciferian, occultic view that salvation comes through sin, redemption comes through deception, that out of destruction, out of violence and revolution will come what they call utopia. So I believe that was the view because he is a consistent liberation theologian. Liberation theology is Marxism just wrapped up in religious disguise. So I think that was the intention. You see the ashes of Pretoria? I think there's a version of them, especially the ones in Iran. The Iranians have a Shiite view, and that is very much apocalyptic. There's got to be some absolute catastrophic disastrous. So many of them believe that if they could just incite a nuclear war, that'll bring about wonderful, good results. Yes. So it's part of the build back better mentality. So basically, blow enough things up, good things are going to come out of it, which cannot be a Christian view. Other questions, comments, anecdotes, remembrances? There's so many battles that we had. I just wish we had more pictures of these battles where Ms. Scarborough and I were in different places, but there were many times we were on the platform, you know, there's no way we could take pictures well. But there's so many of these events, I was like, where are the pictures of SACL, where's the pictures of Kershantag and so many other things. There's some great battles that we fought. And I put some of it in the book, like the battles over Tutu and so on, national caste churches. But the Kershantagh, that story still needs to be told. And the Sakhalin Conference, that's another one that has not yet been written about. It's just so many good memories of so many incredible things. I don't think many people who met this kind grandmother, great-grandmother, could have imagined what a warrior she was. Appearances can be deceptive. Yes? My other question is about African-Christian action, which is under the umbrella of Burmeida as well. What's like, was she also involved in Afro-Crucian action, or was she like presenting, like, what was her first name, fighting for Christianity? So Mrs. Scarborough was definitely mostly focused on fighting the World Council of Churches, and the liberation theology, and their main proponent being Desmond Tutu and Alan Bursack, in particular Archbishop Desmond Hurley and those characters. So she was, you can imagine, as somebody who's home country had been incinerated, and whose productive missionary work had been curtailed and recalled, wanted to know why. And when understanding the destructive work done by the World Council Church and the theological underpinnings, or should we say the atheistic underpinnings, rejecting theology, it led her to want to defend the gospel, contend for the faith, strive for the gospel once delivered for the saints, and to expose and oppose those that were false shepherds, false prophets leading the church astray. So her focus was overwhelmingly on the on the theological gospel issues. She agreed with and supported us with our pro-life campaigns, and she wrote about it sometimes, but her primary focus was not the African Christian action focus. She was aiming at the pastors, the churches. Gospel Defense League was not only dealing with subscribers. She would get the church books, handbooks, and make mailing lists of them and send to every pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of the Dutch Reformed Church, of the Lutherans. And she would target pastors to get the Gospel Defense League. So her main focus, being a pastor's wife and a missionary, was to get to the pastor's church leaders. And that's why Gospel Defense League's mailing list got so huge, because it was going and targeting. So many of those newsletters came to people unsolicited. And some of them would get angry, of course. But that's the point of calling the leaders to account. which is why church conferences were seriously important. And we went to seminaries and colleges and fought and argued there. And it had success. I think this country would be a very different place if it wasn't for the work done by people like Ms. Scarborough and Reverend Earl O'Stegan and other key people. You can't begin to imagine the impact that faithful Christians can make, even if it doesn't seem very loud. But if you took away that salt and that light and that influence, I don't think we'd be able to recognise what the world would be like now if you took away those kind of influences. Yeah, we can really praise God for a life well lived.