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Summer 2013 1 R e g u l a r s 2 O Come All Ye Faithful 7 MAF News 8 Who is this? 11 From the Editor 12 Ken’s Column 20 What’s On at St ABC F e a t u r e s 4 George Beverly Shea 6 You Call Me Coloured!! 14 Ivor’s Open Letter 16 Henry Olonga - He’s Coming Again St Annes Baptist Church summer 2013 Good News
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R e g u l a r s 2 O Come All Ye Faithful

7 MAF News 8 Who is this?11 From the Editor12 Ken’s Column20 What’s On at St ABC

F e a t u r e s

4 George Beverly Shea

6 You Call Me Coloured!!

14 Ivor’s Open Letter

16 Henry Olonga - He’s

Coming Again

St Annes Baptist Churchs u m m e r 2 0 1 3

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Summer 2013

O C O M Ea l l y e

f a i t h f u lIn the absence of a Pastor, as the Editor of St

Annes Baptist Church’s Good News magazine , Ihave asked many different people to write thislead article. However, as this may be my lastopportunity I hope you will forgive me for doingit myself. As most of you will know Sue and I planto spend our retirement back in the South ofEngland and will be relocating later in the year.The Lord has been clear in His guidance on thismatter and it will be with much sadness we willleave St Annes after living here since moving upfrom the south over thirty years ago.

That is only part of the explanation as to why I havechosen to write this article. Perhaps the main reasonis that God would have me focus the article onFaithfulness, both His and ours as His Church at StABC. A favourite hymn of mine is “Great is thyFaithfulness” and my memory of this particular hymngoes back to the singing of it by the choir at BillyGraham’s first crusade to the UK in the HarringayArena in 1954, when I was a very young lad aged 10.And this was probably the event of my spiritualawakening, although not becoming a Christian untilseveral years later. The Christmas carol “O Come AllYe Faithful” is also a favourite of mine. The first songis about God’s faithfulness and the second refers toour faithfulness.

As a young person I could never have imagined howdifficult the circumstances I would have to cope

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through life could be. It would make for aninteresting book and it would appear to be fiction tomany readers. But through all of these very differentand stressful experiences God’s faithfulness has notonly enabled us to cope, on each occasion He hastaken us forward to receive greater blessings in life.The Bible records in John c16 v33 Jesus words, “Ihave said these things to you, that in me you mayhave peace. In the world you will have tribulation.But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

I am convinced the Lord has laid this subject onmy heart to encourage God’s family at St ABC tocontinue to be faithful in all things despite the manydifficulties we are going through. In knowing Jesusand the strength to press on we can receive throughthe Holy Spirit, there will be greater blessing ahead.Take note of these words from Hebrews c10 v36 “Foryou have need of endurance, so that when you havedone the will of God you may receive what ispromised.” And what is promised to the faithful?Philippians c4 v19 “And my God will supply everyneed of yours according to His riches in glory in ChristJesus.”

Already Sue and I have found a church family inHampshire where we have been made very welcomeand we are convinced it is the place where the Lordwants us to serve Him next. It will not be long afterwe are in a position to make the move and settle inthat we will be asking, “what can we do for the Lordin this place?.” It is my prayer in these times whenthere is so much work to be done at St ABC, that allof God’s people here will be asking, “what more canI do in the Lord’s work in this place?.”

Although we will be here for some time yet, Sueand I take this opportunity of wishing you all everyblessing in the future and thank you for so manyhappy memories.

Phil Bowman

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F r o m t h e F o r e i g n O f f i c e

Gospel’s George Beverly Shea, 104, Dies

Cliff Barrows, Billy Graham & George Beverly Shea in Dallas 1987

George Beverly Shea, who escaped a life of toil inan insurance office to become a Grammy-winninggospel singer and a longtime associate of the Rev.Billy Graham, appearing before an estimated 200million people at Graham revival meetings worldwide,died earlier this year at the age of 104.

His death was announced by the Billy Graham EvangelisticAssociation, of which Mr. Shea was the official singing voice formore than half a century. Canadian-born, he lived for decadesjust a mile from the home of Billy Graham, a close friend.

Through the Billy Graham crusades, as the stadium-sizerevival meetings begun by Billy Graham are known, Bev Sheawas perhaps the most widely heard gospel artist in the world,singing before worshipers throughout the United States andaround the globe.

He also appeared regularly on “The Hour of Decision,” BillyGraham’s weekly radio broadcast, which began in 1950 andcontinues to this day.

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On a more intimate scale he sang at the prayer breakfasts ofa series of United States presidents, including Dwight D.Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson and the first George Bush.

Bev Shea, who was still singing as he embarked on his secondcentury, was fond of saying that Billy Graham would not let himretire, since nowhere in the Bible is the concept of retirementovertly addressed. Of him Billy Graham said, “I’ve beenlistening to Bev Shea sing for more than 50 years, and I wouldstill rather hear him sing than anyone else I know.” Wheninterviewers asked why Billy Graham did not simply lead hisflock in song himself, as many preachers do, Bev Shea suggestedthat the status quo was better for all concerned: Billy, as BevShea put it with true Christian charity, suffered from “the maladyof no melody.”

Bev Shea’s vocal style, by contrast, was characterized by aresonant bass-baritone, impeccable diction, sensitive musicalphrasing and an unshowmanlike delivery that nonethelessconveyed his ardent religious conviction.

He recorded more than 70 albums, including “In Times LikeThese” (1962), “Every Time I Feel the Spirit” (1972) and “TheOld Rugged Cross” (1978). In 1966 he won the Grammy Awardfor best gospel or other religious recording for his album“Southland Favourites,” recorded with the Anita Kerr Singers.Bev Shea received a Lifetime Achievement Award from theRecording Academy, which administers the Grammys, in 2011.Of the hundreds of songs he sang, Mr. Shea was most closelyidentified with“How Great Thou Art,” a hymn that became thede facto anthem of Mr. Graham’s ministry. In 1957, at a crusadein New York City, Mr. Shea, by popular demand, sang it on 108consecutive nights. Other songs for which he was known include“I’d Rather Have Jesus,” for which he composed the music, and“The Wonder of It All,” for which he wrote words and music.

George Beverly Shea, known as Bev, was born on Feb. 1,1909, in Winchester, Ontario. His father, the Rev. Adam J. Shea,was a Wesleyan Methodist minister; his mother, the formerMaude Whitney, was the organist in her husband’s church.Growing up, Bev dreamed the dream of every red-bloodedCanadian boy — to be a Mountie — but he also studied piano,organ and violin. One of eight children, he did his first formalsinging in his father’s church choir and his first informal singinglong before, around the family table. As a young man Bev Sheaattended Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y., but left beforegraduating to help support his family in the Depression. He found

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work in Manhattan as a clerk with the Mutual Life InsuranceCompany, a post he would hold for nearly a decade. Meanwhilehe studied voice with private teachers.

During this period Bev Shea entered an amateur talent conteston Fred Allen’s radio show, singing “Go Down, Moses.” He camein second — he was beaten by a yodeler — but the exposure ledto offers to sing on commercial radio. He declined, ill at easewith the idea of a life in secular music. His career in sacredmusic, however, was now assured. In the late 1930s Bev Sheamoved to Chicago to join WMBI, the radio station of the MoodyBible Institute, as a staff announcer and singer. One day in 1943a young man knocked on the studio door. The visitor was aWheaton College student named William Franklin Graham Jr.,who had stopped by to tell Bev Shea how much he loved hissinging.

Before long Billy Graham, who had become a preacher inWestern Springs, Ill., had recruited Bev Shea to sing on his ownreligious radio show, “Songs in the Night.” From the mid-1940sto the early ’50s, Bev Shea was also the host of “Club Time,” agospel show broadcast on ABC Radio.

In 1947 Bev Shea joined Billy Graham and Cliff Barrows, whowould serve as Billy’s longtime music director, in the first BillyGraham Crusade, in Charlotte.

Bev Shea was the author of several books, including thememoir “How Sweet the Sound” (2004), written with Betty FreeSwanberg and Jeffery McKenzie.

Mr. Shea’s first wife, the former Erma Scharfe, whom hemarried in 1934, died in 1976. His survivors include his secondwife, the former Karlene Aceto, whom he married in 1985, andtwo children from his first marriage, Ronald and Elaine.

Though Bev Shea was long a vital part of Billy Graham’s work— Billy routinely insisted that without him he would have hadno ministry — he retained a wry modesty about his role. “Thepeople didn’t come to hear me,” Bev Shea told The CharlotteObserver in 2009. “They came to hear Billy. To get to hear him,they first had to listen to me.”

It was not always so. When they joined forces in the 1940s,Mr. Shea was already a nationally known voice in Christianmusic, Billy Graham a fledgling minister. Their early revivalmeetings were often advertised this way:

BEV SHEA SINGS - Billy Graham will preach.

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N E W SF r o m

R a y L e a

Here There &

Everywhere

The last few months have been busy with manyopportunities to present the work of MAF to manydifferent organisations. I have now taken on the roleof Regional Coordinator, with a responsibility for 7Area Reps based from North Wales to Cumbria.

I would like to thank you for all your support in recent monthsand for those who organized a Dabble and Dine afternoon onthe 8th June in our Church, providing fun, fellowship and foodwith proceeds going to the work of MAF.

Cathy Burton is a Christian singer/song writer and along withher husband Paul are great MAF supporters. Paul is currently intraining and hopes to serve as a pilot with MAF at some pointin the future. They held a concert at Capernwray, Cumbria on3rd July on behalf of MAF, Approximately 160 people attendedin support of MAF. A date to put in your diary Cathy iscoming to St ABC to give a concert in the church on Fridaythe 7th February 2014.

On 23 May 2013, the accidental explosion of an abandonedmortar shell in Torit, South Sudan, left 3 children dead andshattered the life of 8-year-old James Kanuto. James sustaineda terrible injury to his leg, which required amputation. Six dayslater, lacking good medical care and nearing death himself,James was evacuated on an MAF flight from Juba to Nairobi inKenya, and taken directly to Kijabe hospital, where hisamputation wound was treated with further surgery. Dr. Birdwho provided more details: 'We took James back to theatre thisafternoon. His amputation stump was already doing much better.It will need two to three more trips to theatre and he willprobably end up with an amputation going through the kneejoint. Without MAF’s help we don't know whether little Jameswould have survived.

'His other injury is to his left upper teeth, where he’s lostsome teeth and damaged the bone there. This was also cleaned

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up and hopefully will heal slowly on its own. He is generally quiteweak and miserable, but safe now I think. He’s needed a bloodtransfusion.'

Being in a strange country and unable to speak the languageleft James even more traumatised and nervous. MAF UK's JeremyAbbott and MAF UK trustee Linda Trew were visiting Kenya andcalled by to see how James was recovering. 'We are pleased toreport that he is doing well and hopefully will soon be able totravel back to his home in South Sudan,' Jeremy reports.

Sadly his experience isn't unusual in impoverished andwar-torn South Sudan and MAF is working with over a hundredpartners to aid in redevelopment, the provision of healthcare,reconciliation and spreading the love of God.'

This remarkable story of rescue came about as a result manydifferent people working together, and illustrates so clearly howGod uses MAF most effectively in community and partnership.Please remember that MAF calendars will be available later inthe year, so if you would like to order one please see me and Iwill reserve one for you.

Postcards, new and used raised a total of £16,000 last year;please remember to pass them in to support MAF

From their

early years

So who is this

that attends

St ABC regularly??

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Sofa so good!!

And you calling me coloured??

When I born, I black.When I grow up, I black.When I go in sun, I black.

When I scared, I black.When I sick, I black.

And when I die, I still black.

And you white people.When you born, you pink.

When you grow up, you white.When you go in sun, you red.

When you cold, you blue.When you scared, you yellow.

When you sick, you greenAnd when you die, you grey…

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F R O M T H E E D I T O R

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Ken’s Column

“ I ’ m T o o O l d ”

How often have you heard this? Perhaps you’vesaid it yourself! I was born in August 1943 so some wouldsay it applies to me. My strokes in 2003 gave me asharpened perspective on old age and death. Before, Iknew I would die but somehow it didn’t figure in my plansfor life. The teaching (true if not always helpful) that Godis in charge and I’m immortal until I’ve done everythinghe wants me to, led me to conclude that death was not onthe list for me for the foreseeable future. Now I thinkdifferently: death awaits me.

Before, I used to preach quite a bit. But my homechurch stopped using me. I couldn’t see why. Now,I see the church’s job is to reach the next generations– the church needs to operate in a way which relatesto them and I need to support that and not assumethat I always have a contribution to make, along thelines of my earlier activities.

The philosopher/preacher records his view of old agein Ecclesiastes in the Bible especially in 12:1-5. Spotthe teeth (grinders), deafness (the song of birds growsfaint, sound of grinding fades), getting up with thelark (men rise up at the sound of birds), fai l ingeyesight (those looking through the windows), thearms/hands (keepers of the house), etc. The Biblehas a lot to say about old age but that is not mypurpose now.

Remember Moses? Admittedly he didn’t die until hewas 120; but God used him in the latter part of hislife. He wasn’t keen – he provoked God by saying“Here am I; send him”. God got angry with him butpersuaded him to do His work. And the rest is history,

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W O R L D F O C U SP R O V I D I N G S U P P O R T F O R

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY THE LEPROSY MISSION Ma rga re t Sw i res - Pe ru Shirley Lockton

B i r t hday Scheme - Rosemary H i l l JOYONA TRUST - ROMANIAMISSIONARY AV IAT ION FELLOWSHIP Ke i t h Massey

Ray Lea ASIA L INKFEBA RADIO Co l i n DudgeonOMF EVANGELIST

Jane t Chapman Gus Eyre

Month ly get together to pray and to share news about

W O R L D M I S S I O NFor fur ther in format ion speak to Er ic or Shi r ley Lockton

as they say. (You can read about Moses’ meeting withGod in Exodus chapters 3 and 4 if you don’t believeme. The rest of Moses’ story is in Exodus,Deuteronomy and Numbers in the Bible.)

So; are you too old? You are alive. You may notknow why but God does. You may not be a Moses butGod has something for you to do. It may not fitobviously with what you did before but it will be goodfor God. God has new things for us to learn, too. Mystrokes came out of the blue; I even had a new jobbut I couldn’t do it, so I had to be released. But Ibelieve God has other plans for me. The task is towork out what. Paul, writing to the Colossian churchabout 2000 years ago, said “..whatever you do,whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of theLord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father throughhim.” and “Whatever you do, work at it with all yourheart, as working for the Lord, not for men,….. It isthe Lord Christ you are serving.”(Col 3: 17, 23, 24)And also, we are stil l alive so clearly God hasn’tfinished working in us yet.

Am I too old? Are you? No!Ken Wycherley

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My previous cri de Coeur was consideredinteresting enough to merit space in our delightful,informative magazine “Good News”, so here are I amwith a further betrayal of my literary ineptitude withall my disconnected jottings and perhaps a littleexpatiating too luxuriously on some of my favouritethemes, but at least none of these awful rejectionslips.

We all know it’s Jennie’s total care, kindness and commitmentthat enables my continuation on earth, but I must also givecredit and thankfulness to our dedicated Christians who nevercease to amaze me with their depth of knowledge and eruditionand who have befriended me and gone to so much inconvenienceto help me since the increase in my disablement. I have saidthis not once but many times, I would get to church even if Ihad to go under oxygen, well those dear parishioners of StAnnes have been the equivalent of oxygen and I thank God inHis divine providence for making my life so enjoyable becauseof them.

While I do not pretend analysis and am not without feelingsof great regret I have to admit that in my pre-teenage years,(I was probably about eight or nine years old), I had been toldby my father that God was somewhat of an illusory obscurantist,little did I realise how very soon after these earliest years thatthe aura of God and Christianity was all around me, even so ithas only been during the last few years I have felt the deepestreverential aspect and love for Him that I had previously lacked.

Ever since my childhood days I had never any sense of fateor destiny. I think it was T S Elliot who once said “the humanmind cannot bear too much reality”. I wonder, what were thedevelopmental incongruities which caused me to be sofrightened to look beyond the limitations of a materialexistence. Certainly there was nothing symptomatic that I wasaware of.

I would just like to mention the lower strata of society. Themyriad of bureaucratic larcenist with which we seem to surroundourselves, and who frame our laws; both just and unjust. Iwould not break any of these laws, not even the unjust ones,

from our friend Ivor Hall

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but in my heart I would feel more truly Christian and law-abidingby not showing unprincipled respect. What it amounts to is thatone cannot beat the establishment.

I sometimes wonder what the first fifty years of my passingwill bring and will future historians look down into the crucibleof history to see what it contains? What completely hallucinatorythinking on my part trying to understand and unravel theteachings of God in all His wisdom, why the study of the Biblealone makes me feel more and more inadequate when I realisehow little I know about The Greatest Story ever told.

How can I an ordinary mortal read and appreciate such anunchallengeable, unrivalled, eloquent and irrefutable testimony?So ever with faith unshaken this reassuring, edifying experiencenow permeates every aspect of my life.

I now come as inevitably I must to want to know whether myend is in sight, thus making way for my new beginning,therefore, I have to digress and deviate. I remember when BillFerguson delivered such an impressive funeral oration whenGranddad died back in 2006, and five years later in 2011 whenGranny died it was dear Gus with his ready wit and customarygood gentle humour who made a very sad occasion, perhaps alittle less sorrowful than it might otherwise have been.

So will it be Gus extolling and eulogising my virtues, that isif he can find any? I am going to safely predict there will beknow fervent incantations offered up when my time comes, bythen I will have been in the last throws of Bacchanalian abandonbefore I enter the (“undiscovered country from whose bourn notraveller returns. Act111, Scene 1 Hamlet”), on the other handwill I be heading for that last roundup to that far away ranch ofthat Boss in the sky where Granny and Granddad are waitingfor me to join them and I shall be able to say hello to friendswho long ago said goodbye. It all depends how God feels aboutme still being on earth beyond my ninety years.

In conclusion I must give thanks to Him for my great spiritualawakening and for allowing me to retain a cognitive functionand the joy and supreme confidence I feel knowing I shall neverbe diminished by the deleterious burgeoning health dilemmaswhich assail me as part of the inexorable aging process,therefore, I remain as tenacious as ever of joie de vivre.

My thanks to you all, my dearest friends, for indulging me.You are all very seldom, if ever, out of my thoughts.

Ivor

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Sports Pages

He’sComingAgain

Henry Khaaba Olonga was a professional cricketer until2003, playing Test cricket for Zimbabwe and domesticfirst-class cricket in Zimbabwe for Mashonaland andManicaland. When he made his Test debut in January 1995,he was the first black cricketer - and the youngest person- to play for Zimbabwe. His international career came toan end in 2003 after Olonga and his white team mate AndyFlower, (the current England team manager), wore blackarmbands during an international cricket match in the 2003Cricket World Cup to "mourn the death of democracy" inZimbabwe. Death threats forced him to live in exile inEngland. He is now pursuing a career as an evangelist andsinger.

Early lifeOlonga was born in Lusaka, in Zambia. His father was

Kenyan and his mother was Zimbabwean. He has two sistersand two brothers. His brother, Victor Olonga plays rugby inZimbabwe, and became captain of the Zimbabwe nationalrugby union team. The former Kenyan minister FrancisMasakhalia is his uncle.

After returning to Kenya, the family moved to Bulawayo inZimbabwe. Olonga was educated at Rhodes EstatePreparatory School and played cricket for the Partridges, theZimbabwe national primary schools cricket team. He thenattended Plumtree School, where he became head boy. Hewas involved in acting, athletics and rugby in addition to

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cricket. In a school cricket match against Brighton College,he scored 103 runs and took 8 wickets for 15 runs. He founda firm Christian faith in 1992 at a youth camp in Marondera.

Cricket careerOlonga made his debut in first-class cricket in March 1994,

aged 17, playing for Matabeleland against Mashonaland inthe Logan Cup. He took five wickets in the match, but hadvaried performances over the next couple of years. Hecontinued to play domestic first-class cricket for Matabelelanduntil 1998-99, and then for Mashonaland A in 2001-02 andthen for Manicaland in 2002-03

He was not an obvious or automatic choice when he wasselected to make his international debut for Zimbabwe in theTest against Pakistan at Harare in January 1995 (althoughOlonga could have been selected to play for Zimbabwe againstSri Lanka earlier in 1995, when David Brain and Eddo Brandeswere absent due to injury, but he was found to be ineligibleas he still held Kenyan nationality). Having given up hisKenyan citizenship, Olonga became the youngest player torepresent Zimbabwe in international cricket, aged 18 yearsand 212 days. A right arm fast bowler, Olonga was also thefirst black cricketer to play for Zimbabwe, and the thirdZambian-born Test cricketer after Phil Edmonds and NealRadford of England. Zimbabwe beat Pakistan by an inningsand 64 runs, the team's first ever Test victory, mainly due toa double century from Grant Flower, and centuries from AndyFlower and Guy Whittall. Olonga took the wicket of SaeedAnwar in his first over, but he was no-balled once forthrowing. With help from Dennis Lillee, he rebuilt his actionbefore returning to international cricket. He made his debutin ODIs playing against South Africa in October 1995.

Olonga joined the Zimbabwe team at the 1996 CricketWorld Cup in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. He was selectedto play in Zimbabwe's final game of the competition, againstIndia, but asked to be omitted as he was out of practice. Hewas a regular member of the Zimbabwe team from 1998 to2003. He was man of the match when he took his first5-wicket haul (5-70) in Tests playing against India in October1998, Zimbabwe's second Test victory, and he was thespearhead of the team that won Zimbabwe's first overseasTest, beating Pakistan at Peshawar in November 1998. He

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played in 7 matches in the 1999 Cricket World Cup in England.He took a second and final Test 5-wicket haul (5-93) in alosing cause against Pakistan in November 2002.

Olonga played 30 Test matches for Zimbabwe, taking 68wickets with a bowling average of 38.52, and 50 One DayInternationals, taking 58 wickets at an average of 34.08. Heholds the record for the best bowling in an ODI by aZimbabwean, with figures of 6-19 against England at CapeTown in 2000. He was considered one of the fastest bowlersin international cricket, but also one of the more inaccurate,bowling many wides and no-balls.

2003 Cricket World CupHe was selected for the Zimbabwe team at the 2003 Cricket

World Cup, held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. Someof the countries playing in the tournament were concernedabout security: New Zealand had refused to play in Nairobi,and England refused to play in Harare.

Olonga and his white team mate Andy Flower achievedinternational recognition by wearing a black armband in thematch against Namibia at Harare Sports Club, to "mourn thedeath of democracy" in Zimbabwe under the government ledby Robert Mugabe. Olonga and Flower released a statementon 10 February 2003, the second day of the tournament,stating in part:

In all the circumstances, we have decided that we will each weara black armband for the duration of the World Cup. In doing so weare mourning the death of democracy in our beloved Zimbabwe.In doing so we are making a silent plea to those responsible to stopthe abuse of human rights in Zimbabwe. In doing so, we pray thatour small action may help to restore sanity and dignity to our nation

Flower scored 39 runs, Olonga conceded 8 runs from 3overs but took no wickets, and Zimbabwe won the match.Their protest was supported in the world press and morewidely internationally, but caused a political storm inZimbabwe. The minister for propaganda Jonathan Moyolabelled Olonga an "Uncle Tom" with "a black skin and a whitemask".

Despite the protest, Flower continued to play for Zimbabwein the tournament, but Olonga was omitted from the teamfor six matches, ostensibly on grounds of his poor form

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(including a walkover against England who refused to travelto Harare). Olonga was selected to play in one more WorldCup match, against Kenya at Bloemfontein in the Super Sixesstage of the tournament on 12 March. Olonga announced hisretirement from international cricket after Zimbabwe's finalgame in the competition. Olonga and Flowers were givenhonorary life membership of MCC later in 2003.

A warrant was issued in Zimbabwe for Olonga's arrest oncharges of treason, which carries the death penalty inZimbabwe. Death threats made him go temporarily go intohiding, and then into exile in England after Zimbabwe's lastmatch of the tournament, against Sri Lanka in East London.A knee injury forced his retirement from first-class cricketlater in 2003, but he has played occasional matches since2005 for the Lashings World XI. By 2010, he was calling forthe restoration of international cricket between Zimbabweand other countries.

Personal lifeOlonga met physical education teacher Tara Read while

both were attending the Australian Institute of Sport's cricketprogram in Adelaide. The couple married in 2004. On Friday13 October 2006, Olonga won Five's The All Star Talent Showwith 50% of the overall votes. His autobiography, Blood,Sweat and Treason, was released in July 2010 by VisionSports Publishing and was longlisted for the William HillSports Book of the Year 2010.

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