The Fourth Estate and Burden For The Jews

 

Strategic Prayer Warfare

One form that this prayer warfare took was intercession on a national and international level concerning anything that effected world evangelism. Every Creature must hear; therefore, the doors must be kept open. Their prayers became strategic. They must face and fight the enemy wherever he was opposing freedom to evangelise.

God was preparing an instrument - a company to fight world battles on their knees.


To the right is Dr. Priddy, a staff member who put his call to the mission field on the altar to serve as an intercessor for the nations.
Over the next several years, Rees Howells led the College into a path of intercession and prayer warfare on international levels. These prayers included the crisis with the Rhineland, Ethiopia, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Russia, North Africa, Italy, D-Day, and the intercession for the establishment of the State of Israel.


The Fourth Estate and Burden For The Jews
After reading the proclamation by Italy on September 3, 1938, that all the Jews must clear out of Italy within six months and with anti-Semitism so fierce in Germany, a heavy burden for the Jewish people began to rest upon Rees Howells.

A burden to see the Jews return to their land rested upon Rees Howells.

He saw the need for them to go back to their homeland, which was promised to them by God.

A burden to purchase a fourth estate for Jewish refugees came upon the founder, and the Lord showed him Penllergaer Estate. The estate consisted of 270 acres, and within the grounds was a waterfall and observatory; it would cost nothing less than £20,000.

After another battle with a syndicate, the college was offered the estate; the price was £20,000 and in hand there was nothing!

This dwarfed the previous purchases of faith, but God had so led him on through the years that, where we might think the test would be tremendous, and it was, yet, as one student said, "He bought Penllergaer with less fuss than many a man makes in buying a suit of clothes!"

The newspapers reported this 'City of refuge in Wales for Jewish children.' The London newspapers gave it headlines also.


The War Hinders The Work

After receiving twelve Jewish children, war was declared on Germany, and because the College saw this as a massive unexpected political shift, plans had to be changed. The Jewish refugees could no longer enter Britain.

It was another hard test to see the estate bought by prayer and faith alone; then the war came, and they could not take the Jewish children.

The Lord told them that they would have thousands of pounds out of it to use for the Kingdom. The M.O.D. commandeered the mansion during the war for the use by American troops. At the end of the war, the mansion was offered to a children's charity, who refused it because of the cost of its upkeep.

Many years later Samuel Howells sold it and put the money into the Kingdom. Today the Penllergaer council owns the land, and on the site of the mansion now stands their main office buildings. The grounds are open for the public to walk in. Below are some pictures of the grounds today, the waterfall, river, and observatory.