FIND THE FACE 

By Tessa Harvey

       That night the virus drifted towards the school. It had been programmed to steal, kill and destroy - in other words, to devastate.

    The entities behind the virus searched for those whose masks hid fear, anger, rebellion and confusion, but Christians were also among the victims, especially those in key positions of leadership.

    Their deaths meant people were left bereft in countries largely devoid of Godly people revealing the Way of Jesus.

    But around the school were pools of light where warring angels stood guard, their swords held aloft and aflame, faces stern and unyielding. There had been a gap in the Kinder area but it was blocked now with light.

    Someone right now was praying, pleading the shed blood of Jesus on the cross over the Kinder class!

    Demons fled, screaming on a level beyond human hearing. But dogs heard and began frenzied barking and howling. 

    The virus fled. The light shining in the darkness was beyond its comprehension. It could not overcome. The dogs quietened and settled.

    But one of the demons had noticed a dark gap over a Grade Three classroom. A new teacher was now espousing the cause of darkness... The darkness of the virus and its demons would return....