Defender

Acts 9: 30
“When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.”

Feng-Shan Ho.
Irena Sendler
Hugh O’Flaherty
Giorgio Perlasca
Chiune Sugihara
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz
Frank Foley
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Dimitar Peshev
Who are these people? Why are they listed?

What do you do when you hear of someone’s life, ministry, credibility about to be or is being torn to shreds? Do you join in? Are you a defender of people of the faith as well as defender of the faith?
Will you be a protector? Will you shield others?
The Church leaders took Saul to the coast and sent him by boat to Tarsus. He was out of there. Out of the threat to his life. They took it on themselves at cost to themselves to preserve Saul.

So what about the names above? Well if I mention the next name then you will immediately know:
Oskar Schindler.
All the above people helped Jewish people escape the Nazi holocaust. They all gave their own story. They all sacrificed and out their lives at risk because they believed the threat was wrong and that these people needed preserving.
So look around to you today. Who is being attacked? Come to their defence. Invite them home, to a safe refuge, to a place where they can recover.