14 April, Tue

Very nice apartment in Pinerolo. on the way to Torre Pellice. Torre Pellice's city. Tourism Info center. Main info about Valdese. Traditional house. Chanforan, where all the denomination had meeting in 1532, to accept Valdese as a part of reformation. Valdese's School for their children. Once upon a time, there were 200 school for their children, from this record, you can know there were a lots of numbers who taking this way of recovery against the Catholic. Back to the city for lunch. A very long road tunnel, at least 13km. LYON About the history of Valdese, please refer to the "a review of two thousand years Church History"(this is my own translation, it is available in chinese, i'm not sure about english). Bro Desmond and Sis Zheng Yi's testimony,"When I was in FTTT, one day while I was fellowshiping with the Lord, I was so touched by His love, I asked the Lord, why do You die for such a man as me?Yet, the Lord, show me His glorious church. This impressed me very much. And during that time, there was a message about planting the church tree everywhere. And when we viewed the open window, for the report of Lord's recovery in northen europe, we realised there were very few people there. So, I was burdened to go. When we graduated from FTTT, initially the brothers fellowship with us, those who had burdened to do propagation work in oversea, had to wait until next year. Yet the Lord keep on bordering me, until i couldnt take it anymore, i go to fellowship with the brothers. So, that year only two couple were sent from Taiwan, Zheng yi and I, Bro Yong Sheng Ci and Sis Li Pei. We were sent to Russia. Before we leave Taiwan, we asked from the Lord for double portion of grace and experience. That was in 2001. After serving for a few years in Russia, under the fellowship of the brothers, we came back to Malaysia to coordinate in the church. We found the serving in Malaysia is very comfortable, we had no language barrier and cultural problem, everything is so nice. Yet, in 2006, there were messages about coordinating and cooperate with the energetic Triune God. I was very touched by those messages. I started to seek before the Lord. 2007, we joined GMR, we planned one week europe trip right after it. We visited Greece, Sweden and etc, we saw the testimony in europe was very weak. This burdened us. And when we heard that there were three saints who coordinated in Russia were received by the Lord, we were so shocked and sad. In the HWMR, I read a portion, as if the Lord said to me, you had seen the Lord's recovery, if you stayed, you should have burdened to those who go. Are you only satisfied with the sweet church life you have in your locality? or the Lord actually want you to go? since then, we start to try to find a way to go to europe aggressive. After fellowship with the coworkers, they suggested us France, which never had come through our mind before this. We decided to study in France. Yet when we checked online, we realised the registeration were closed, we had to wait til next year, July 2008. We feel safe, as we thought we will have sufficient time to prepare ourselves for it. But, when we met the coworkers again, they gave us Bro Yue's phone nomber(who is in Paris), and asked us to contact him. So we did. Bro Yue want me to arrive in Paris before September 2007, he said, do not wait til 2008. The time we had is really limited. We fellowship with the brothers in our locality, and Sis Zheng yi went back to Taiwan, while I departed to Paris. 7~9 September, we had Paris's conference, after that, we were divided into 4 gospel groups to 4 different places in France. Initially, they arranged me to go to Bordeaux. But there was a couple from US who wish to go there, so, i changed with them, I end up in Lyon. After we preach the gospel, we gained quit a few contacts, just before we leave, a contact(brother) were baptised, then i tell the Lord, You must arranged someone to take care of him. At the same time, i saw the brothers in Lyon(all are students) most of them were also new one, they do need shepherding too. Therefore, i asked the Lord to sent someone here to take care of them, the Lord said, why not you?I fellowshiped with the brothers in Paris, then I stayed in Lyon for another two months. In that two months, every week there were someone baptised. God is really awful. The Lord is working all the time. Because of visa, i leave Lyon, we applied for student's visa and moved here around January 2008. Then, we realised we need someone to coordinate with us. therefore, we started to pray for family to moved to Lyon(the students had been praying for this for a few years). The Lord is really marvelous, in one year, there were three families moved to Lyon. Praise the Lord! p/s: when we have burden for europe and were in the process to come to europe, we never think or really planned what should we do here, can we get a job or what about our living expenses, can we make it?? no, we are very simple, we know that the Lord give us this burden, therefore we come. We do not choose anything according to our preference, i feel this might be the reason why the Lord preserved us in so many ways. And our hope for future is to gain more french and serve as a team.