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All the obstacles that go along with migration cannot top the joy of seeing the local people
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getting saved and baptized and being perfected to carry out the God-ordained way.
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We were in Irving, Texas, for many years and both of us had full-time jobs with two children.
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Through the fellowship, we opened to the Lord. My wife and I fellowshipped a lot; we prayed,
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and eventually we opened to the brothers and we said, Brothers, we feel that it might be good if we move
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We just said, We’re open to move to any city but we feel good we could go to Cardiff.
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I wasn’t actually in the church life before I was a student.
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I spent two years at a bible school and I moved to Cardiff to start my studies and hopefully
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I thought I’d like to serve the Lord a little bit.
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And the Lord was so merciful to me because the Lord arranged that He’d send two families, one from New Zealand and one from America to Cardiff
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one week before I arrived.
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First time we mentioned to our kids, they both just cried as if it was the end of the world.
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I thought they were crazy, no, we can’t move to the UK. It’s so far away.
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I just didn’t want to leave my friends. I was like the opposer of the family.
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It took a while to get Daniel and Ruth, Daniel especially, into a good school.
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He was on the waiting list for a long time and it was hard work and eventually we got him in
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but then there’s this call for a lot of the saints from London to move to 12 cities in UK
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and I was totally not keen at all.
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But you know there’s the ministry and the ministry is really rich.
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So in the Memorial Day Conference in 2009 there was a sharing about how Christ is the true vine
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and He’s the universal vine tree and He needs to spread
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and He needs to propagate Himself.
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Even though it wasn’t that easy of a time for them,
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I noticed that after a while when we started contacting these students
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and students started coming into the church life,
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I noticed the kids were really enjoying these students and were very encouraged by seeing the fruits.
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They were very much a part of this migration. They became our co-laborers in shepherding
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the new ones, caring for the new ones.
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I think seeing fruits coming into the church life is a great encouragement for all of us,
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including the children.
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I think it’s a real top enjoyment when you have corporate fruit-bearing. A lot of prayer,
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a lot of fellowship, a lot of enjoyment together and then something just comes out spontaneously.
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I’ve had a very enjoyable experience. Although I haven’t migrated myself,
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I’m a fruit of the migration of the saints.
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I was just looking back that if we didn’t move here, where would those students go?
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Where can they meet?
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I feel like I’m eternally indebted to the Lord and to the two families that migrated
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to Cardiff because I think I really would have been lost and I don’t think I would
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have stayed very long in my relationship with the Lord had I not contacted the saints and
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had the saints not contacted me. So I really feel like the Lord has saved me and I feel
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really indebted that I really should give my life to the Lord now because of what other
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people had paid the price for me to enjoy.
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To me, the greatest enjoyment, the greatest highlight, is seeing young people that just
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love the ministry, love the truth and their lives completely changed because they are
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being constituted with the Lord and with the experiences of life.
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I’ve never been to Europe until I migrated to Europe.
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Many people would ask me, How can you do that?
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I would say that when you are in love with someone, you would do things you cannot describe.
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Witness Lee once said that if you are used by the Lord as His stepping stone for His
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move once, you’ll never forget it. I would never forget my move to Cardiff.
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We moved four times within three years as a family.
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Humanly speaking it doesn’t sound easy but every step of the way the grace is there.
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The Lord had always prepared someone there for my children as well to be their spiritual companion and shepherd.
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We just need to give everything to the Lord and to say, Lord, be my consecration.
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I just think sometimes we give up all the material things, we give up our situation,
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and sometimes you might feel, well I don’t have a home every more, actually the Lord is our dwelling place.
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I just really felt the Lord speaking this to me, the Lord is our real home, our real dwelling place.
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So it’s better to migrate, it’s better to lose a few things but really gain the Lord.