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David Thebehali, former mayor of Soweto, black township outside of Johannesburg, South Africa; with Attorney David Marmon

They lived only a few blocks from Mother Teresa, and he spoke and worshipped with her many times. He worked in Kalighat, her first home for the destitute and dying. He read the Bible to Mother Teresa and her nuns during "Holy Week" at her Mother House. On one occasion, Mother Teresa laughingly threw their 6 month-old daughter up in the air and said, "Maybe one day you will be a "Missionary of Charity."

His first big mission was to help drive $100,000 of seeds and medical supplies to El Salvador during its civil war and distribute them to the poor. By a twist of affairs, the Salvadoran Army stole all the seeds and medicines, but God used it for great advantage. By the time it was over, he had met with top government officials including the Minister of Public Health and the Vice-Minister of Foreign Relations. He also met the sub-commander of the dreaded National Guard, who enabled him to travel anywhere in the country in relative safety.

In 1986 Attorney David Marmon began making short-term mission trips to the slums of Lopez Portillo on the outskirts of Mexico City, taking used clothing and preaching the Bible.

The Sahara is not all sand. Attorney Marmon's blue tent where he spent 40 days. Three kilometers away was a little water hole where birds drank. He was able to purify the water and drink it.

Attorney Marmon has made 14 trips to Jerusalem. Here he is, praying at the Western (or Wailing) Wall.

He continued making mission trips to poor countries such as Haiti.

Through these good relationships, he and his wife, whom he met and married in El Salvador, were able to bring severely burned children to the U.S. for plastic surgery.

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Attorney Marmon also went to the Miskito Coast of Honduras with Christian Emergency Relief Team. Traveling by small plane, motor launch and dug-out canoe, the team went up the Coco river to Iralaya to provide health clinics for Nicaraguan refugees escaping the Sandinistas on the "Trail of Tears."

In 1987 he smuggled Bibles and clothing to the underground church in Russia with "Brother Andrew—Open Doors." He visited a small underground house-church in an area forbidden to foreigners. Read the story of "To Russia with Love."

That same year he represented Christian lawyers at the first National Prayer Breakfast for the Republic of South Africa in Johannesburg and met with the former Christian mayor of Soweto, David Thebahali.

In 1988, he left his law practice and went to Scotland for street evangelism with Horizon Christian Fellowship in San Diego. From there he went deep into the middle of the Sahara, near Tamanrasset, Algeria, about 150 miles from the Niger border. There he spent 40 days and nights, fasting 30 of those days (water only) and prayed for direction and preparation for the life he felt God had called him to.

In 1992 he took his wife and baby daughter to Calcutta, India for six months. There they attempted to start a health mission for some of the 1,000,000 people whose only home is the streets. He preached on a number of occasions at St. James Anglican Church on Circular Road, not far from Mother Teresa's.

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and read some poetry he wrote while in Calcutta. U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter was not only in his class at Harvard Law, but also in his section. He wrote Justice Souter a postcard from Calcutta, "It’s a long way from the steps of the Supreme Court to the streets of Calcutta." He says he felt David Souter had gone to one exalted extreme, and life had taken him [Marmon] to another.

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