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Gracia Burnham
to speak at Berachah Bible Church Nov. 2
Author and former Philippine
hostage Gracia Burnham will be the guest speaker at the 9:30 a.m. worship
service on Sunday, Nov. 2, at Berachah Bible Church, 310 Corinth Rd.,
Jonesboro (Fayette County).
Burnham and her husband, Martin, were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary
at Dos Palmas resort off Palawan Island, Philippines in May, 2001, when
they were abducted and held hostage for 376 days by Philippine rebels.
Burnham’s husband was killed in June of 2002 in a firefight between
the Philippine military and the Abu Sayyaf group. Burnham, herself, was
wounded in the leg, but was freed.
She now resides in Rose Hill, Kan. with her three children. She is the
author of a book, In the Presence of My Enemies, which gives an account
of the couple’s year of terror in the Philippine jungle. She also
is the founder and director of the Martin and Gracia Burnham Foundation.
For further information , call the church, 770-461-2466.
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