17-19 May, Tuesday

Sis Cornelia and ChristinaSis Melisamichalska ulica handicraft menu chocolate cafe bratislavsky hrad-gate of the castle bratislavsky hradgarden arch plaza bratislava secret garden ship shape building slovenke narodne divadlo symbol of castle Crown on the top of cathedral trolley cakes overview of bratislava adam family=david,sonia,joseph n michael deborah,wan chi,bethany n joseph BRATISLAVA

When the conference is over, the sisters from Romania, Sis. Melisa from Berlin and I go around the city. We went to many places. I enjoyed very much to be with them. The scenery is beautiful, the sky is blue, the sisters are pretty...and I'm not alone! :). During the conference, finally i found time to talk to Sis Sonia from Prague. Here is her testimony, " I was 14 when the communist fall. I start to seek for something when i was 16. I practised yoga and read a lots of books. Then, I decided to read Bible. My friend get 1 for me. I like this book but in me, I start to ask, is this real or is it just a story? In Jeremiah, there's a verse says," if you will seek Me, you will find Me! then, I pray, " God, if Your are, I'm seeking You." and I heard a voice says, " I'm seeking you." I'm scared! I'm a good girl but I realised I'm a sinner, I'm afraid of God. I have a friend who is a believer, he is a pastor's son. He saw me holding the Bible, he preached gospel to me. He told me about Adam became sinful, yet God is Holy, but Lord Jesus came, He is knocking on your heart.... Then, I go back and pray," Lord Jesus, come into my heart." I start to preach gospel to my friend. I was 17 that year. After sometime, I lost my joy and i realised i need to have fellowship with christian, I start to meet with some christian in my town. In Christian Youth Camp, they tell us it is the Lord who redeemed you, it is not according to your work. I found my joy again. I studied in University. I joined the same christian group. and I met Bro Adam. When I finished my uni, we get married. We started to live in Prague. Adam is studying theology, he is bored with his study. One day, he found Bro. Watchman Nee's book in his library. He like that book very much. His friend introduce him to a book store with only Nee's book. There he met Bro. Curt Kennard. Bro. Curt Kennard drove every morning from south of Prague to north to have morning revival with Adam and go back to south again. Adam was very touched by this and he told me he felt he should leaved the denomination. I dont understand. I fell Adam's future is here, this is the biggest christian group in Prague beside Catholic. But in one week, the Lord speak to me, I realised I must follow the Lord. So, I told Adam, " I will follow you." Adam is very surprised! Adam start to serve the Lord, and doing translation, and distribution of the books now." Bro Adam said, I'm the first oversea saint who didnt lost anything in Prague! Thank the Lord! So, if you ever went there, please be extra,extra cautious about your belonging. All the time i spent in Bratislava, I stayed with Bro. Nathaniel's family. They migrated here from US for the Lord. I'm very impressed that their three children knows a lots of languages. They are really the future of the church. Bro. Nathaniel and Sis Wan Chi were very busy for the conference. Therefore, we dont really have much time to fellowship. There were 8 saints who meets regularly for the Lord's Table in Bratislava. Anyhow, I saw something which is really marvelous in Prague and Bratislava. There is a group of brothers who are well mingled and blended. I saw the way they coordinate together, it is so sweet, so smooth, i find nothing to describe their coordination accept "four living creature"! We pursue a lots on "four living creature". But in my mind, sometime i will ask, is this real, will it ever happened on this earth before the coming age? I never see it fulfill in anywhere( of course, I havent travel far enough, my world is very small). But when i saw this groups of brother, one stand up to translate, after translating for two, he just sit down without any signal or instruction, another brother just stand up to take over his place. one make an anouncement, another just stand up to make up the lack, and you can see they are so one, there is no offence, no dislike or any negative feeling, they just support one another, their coordination is so organic and beautiful, as beautiful as the oneness of the Triune God! I'm very thankful for this. Through them, i finally have a little bit of apprehension about "the four living creature". and at least in a part of this world, there is the reality of it! even now, is there already! Praise the Lord!

15~17 May, Lord's Day

Bro. Bill Lawson and AdamBro. Bob Danker and Andy Bro. Collie Joseph and LeoBrothers from different countries break bread Lord's Table meeting sis margarita from ukraine Sis Bagia from Poland Saints from Poland Saints from Bucharest Jana and I publication in slovak publication in czech BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA

I found this report online, I feel that it is much much better than mine, therefore, I paste it here, if anyone found anything which i had done in this blog being not suitable and may hurt someone or against something, please write to me, thank you very much.

"There was a total of 122 registered for this conference (107 adults & 15 children).

Slovakia: Total = 62 (51 adults & 11 children) Of the 62, 18 were new ones. Czech Republic: Total = 25 (21 adults & 4 children) The rest of the saints were from Germany (4), Holland (1), Hungary (1), Malaysia (1), Poland (8), Romania (7), UK (5), Ukraine (3), and the USA (5). In this conference we had 5 meetings in which 3 brothers shared the messages from the last Thanksgiving conference on the Testimony of Jesus. In addition to the 5 main meetings, we also had a group fellowship time in which we broke into 5 groups (2 English speaking groups and 3 Czech/Slovak speaking groups) in which we enjoyed mutual sharing as we read through some ministry excerpts. The Lord as the 7-fold intensified Spirit spoke in all the meetings to enlighten and supply all the saints and new ones. -- One new brother who is in his 40's had ordered ministry books in the past and saw the conference announcement on the Prud (Slovak LSM) website. He came for the first 3 meetings and the group fellowship time and also brought his father. During an informal fellowship time, he had some doctrinal questions, but eventually, he was led to call on the Lord. As he began to call, his countenance changed. He commented to a brother that he had been searching through many Christian groups for years, but had not found a group which was just purely for the truth in the Bible. On Wednesday he met with a brother in the park for fellowship. Again, he practiced calling on the Lord with the brother and afterwards he told the brother that next time, they need to go up to one of the mountains in Bratislava so that they can call out in a stronger way. -- One middle-aged sister who is a single mother with 3 teenage children came to the conference last year and also came again for this conference. She has become dissatisfied with her current denomination because it has become increasingly worldly. She called one of our sisters Thursday saying that she would like to come to our meeting Lord's day. -- One young Slovak sister was the student of one of the sisters now in fellowship with us here in Slovakia. She is from a small village in the north of Slovakia, but is now working and going to school in London. We passed her contact information to the saints in London and she has been shepherded by them, was baptized and is now meeting regularly in one of the districts of the church in London. She came back to Slovakia for this conference and brought her mother to the meetings. Her family is strongly traditional Catholic. Her mother must have been touched by the Lord during the conference because she expressed the desire to be baptized. Please pray that she will be strengthened by the Lord to follow through with her desire to be baptized and to be fully rescued out of the present evil age to be in the church life, today's ark. -- One young brother from a town in the east of Slovakia is a reader of the ministry and has been in contact with us just recently. He came to the conference leaving his wife and young child at home and he seemed to enjoy the conference and the fellowship during the conference. He was a member of a Brethren assembly, but was persecuted and later ostracized because he would not give up reading the ministry books. He is now meeting informally with some other believers in his town. Please pray for our continuing contact with this family so that they can be shepherded into the church life. -- Another brother came to the conference from a small town, L., on the east side of Slovakia. He also enjoyed the conference and is open to further contact. -- Sister M. from Prague who is at a critical crossroad in her Christian life commented that she felt as if she were "in heaven" during the conference. Her husband came with her to the conference and was impressed in a very positive way. He even took notes during the messages, and made encouraging comments like "Dear, you should read this point of the outline; it is very good." According to her, her husband´s face was really shining for a few days. She is not even sure if he is regenerated. The brothers in Prague suggested to that they would like to contact her husband and she was very happy that the brothers would care for her husband. She said she is before the Lord concerning what to do. In February the Lord led her to contact us again after experiencing some hardships in her group. After she contacted the recovery again, her testimony is "this is the place, where I was received with cherishing, but most of all this is the place, where the real food is being supplied." She said it would be very difficult for her to leave the group where she has been actively involved for more than 15 years, but she feels the Lord is probably leading her to a new stage in her Christian life. We encouraged her to simply trust in the Lord, to be open to Him, and to keep eating the Lord. Her spiritual companion, sister A., has been coming with her to the meetings in Prague and was also encouraged very much by the conference. She expressed her gratitude to the Lord that He has brought her to a place where the Bible and spiritual things are finally opened to her in a way she can understand and experience. -- Another sister came who was saved and baptized by us a couple years ago and lives in a small village about 50 km outside of Prague. This was her first conference and she enjoyed it very much. She said it encouraged her to overcome her fear of driving the car to Prague so that her family may come more often to join the meetings in Prague. Please pray that M's husband can experience a dynamic salvation and be shepherded by the brothers in Prague. Also pray that all these saints in the Prague area can be fully captured by the Lord for His testimony in Prague. During the conference, the first volume of the Life-study of Genesis, messages 1-17, in Czech and Slovak was announced and made available for purchase. Please continue to pray that the riches in "Joseph's storehouse" can be distributed to all the Lord's people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The brothers in Slovakia and the Czech Republic."

14 May, Thursday

Home meeting in Bro Frantisek's house Jana, Lenka and Frantisek Bean soup Sauce Leaving to Bratislava Prague, Czech Republic Jana brought me over to a house for home meeting. There, we met with Bro. Frantisek and Lenka. Most of the time, we communicated through sign language. Jana tried to translate for me all the time. We took out paper, drawing, pointing, tried our very best to fellowship. I indeed enjoy it very very much. Its sweet and lovely. Here is the testimony from Bro Frantisek through translation," When I was young, I was aggresively against the gospel. I was an unbeliever. My father was a communist. Every three years, i need to join the military service for 1 month, but i dont like to stay there. At night, when i look at the sky full of stars, i was considering a lots of things. I remember that many people around me talk about God. So, I asked God, "people say You do exist, I'm asking You, do You exist?" and I can feel in the spirit there is an answer came, says, Yes! I'm the One who make the sky and the stars which you are looking at now. From then on, I believed in God as a Creator but I dont care about my relationship with Him. I respect God and believe His existent, but my life doesnt change. Later, I got a copy of Matthew(the cover is blank page, so that communist dont know what is it),when i read chapter 5, 6 and 7, it touched me very much. I realised i have relationship with God, since that time, my life start to change. But i didnt understand what is actually happening(only later i learned that this is called regeneration). Then Jehovah Witness contacted me. I was with them for 10 years. After that, we leaf because we realized that we are regenerated and we cant remain in an organisation which keep our spirit closed(on the 8th years we start to know about this, but it takes another two years for us to turn). After we leaf, we seek to have contact with other christian group such as baptist, catholic, orthodox, brethren....but i feel that the Spirit didnt allow us to stay with them, yet i dont know why. One day, i went to a book store and i found watchman nee and witness lee's book. I didnt look at other books. i just go straight to this two book and i read, i lkie it, its new and strange to me. there is a lots of thing you cant find in others' book. there was a coupon inside which you can ask for other books. I sent the coupon and i get other books. in 2001, there was a conference in Prague, Bro Adam asked us(by sending us invitation letter) whether we want to attend. we went. we found it same as the literature, a lots of new things. we continue to read and attend conferences. Some times after the 2001 conference, some brother come to our house and read the Ministry together with us. we are not sure whether we should join the church. only in 2005, we joined. at that time,bro. Adam leave for Slovakia, we have to continue to have the meeting ourselves. Once we were in Brno(blending), a brother declared there is a church in Brno, we also declare there is a church in Prague. We had Lord's Table in our house. So, we are very much involved in it." the testimony from Sis. Lenka, "I was also an unbeliever. Both of my parents are strong communist. Even my brother. But I'm not. I married to Frantisek. He keep in touch with Jehovah Witness, they start to come to our house. They gave me a book-"You can live forever in earth Eden". there is a chapter in that book-Who is God? I read and i accepted it, Jehovah is the Father God. After 2 years, we are going to Baptist, before that we read some book- Jesus die for us. Then I say, if we want to have eternal life, we must give our life to Jesus. We meet 3 times a week, but after every meeting, me and my brother will have argument. So, i say since we have problem every time after the meeting, lets not go to the meeting. so, we went to another congregation but problem still exist. But by that time, we already know God and Jesus. One day, my son have burning at his face, a brother who has the healing spirit pray for him in the name of Jesus and Jehovah, my son was healed in that afternoon. Later, we stop going to meet with Jehovah Witness. When Adam leave for Slovakia, they never consider that the bread breaking will stop, they say it iou to keep it is up to you to keep it on. So, it is God's sovereignty that leads that two family away, so that we may stay in the church. The Lord is satisfied with both Prague and Bratislava. when the Lord saw it is good for us to give us a miracle, He gave, He did the healing for us to experience His power and mercy. at that time, it is important to make us go on in faith. now, what the Lord doesnt do for us, we are not affected, we know we have Him( Matthew 23:8).