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“I surrender all. I surrender all. All to Jesus I surrender. I surrender all.” Familiar words from a powerful and moving hymn. It captures the essence of what we are called to if we want to have a relationship with Jesus that avails to us all the wonders of His Holy Spirit and the joys of His promises for us.
WARWICK SMITH/Stuff Lorraine Gray has her father Trevor’s war-time diary and letters he wrote home before his death in 1941. “I was about 4. My mother was crying. I remember a tartan tea cosy he must have bought in England. “I kept thinking, ‘Where is he? Where is he?’ That’s when the death part hit me.” Trevor’s Wellington bomber crash-landed in northern Holland on November 7, 1941. The 27-year-old and his crew-mates died, but his family back home had no confirmation from inside the German-occupied country for years. Trevor Gray was born in Whanganui and was educated at M...