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Strangers and Foriengers

Scripture: Hebrews 11:13-16 13  These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14  For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15  If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16  But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. Devotion:             Immigration has been all over the news lately. So, I thought it would be an appropriate time to share the immigration story of the Haselton family. It begins in England in 1648 when England decided that Puritanism was illegal and sought to shut down churches. Two brothers David and John Hazeltine (That was how they spelled it back then but that is another story altogether.) They