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This is John Cheung, my family and I moved to U.K. in 2008 as part of the Lord's move to Europe.
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We came from Wellington, New Zealand, and migrated to Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
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We knew that we always wanted to, one day we will serve the Lord, drop our jobs and serve the Lord full-time.
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There was a real burden and fellowship, a lot of fellowship, concerning 12 cities in U.K.
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We moved to Cardiff as part of the migration to 12 cities across the United Kingdom.
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I've always been in a big church life with you know. So this is the first time we migrated to a virgin land with no church life.
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With two families we are very small and we were very desperate
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so what we're encouraged to do is to cluster with other churches in the nearby localities.
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Before we started the work here, we felt we were very desperate
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for survival, for the matter of survival.
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So we two families, basically we prayed, we fellowshipped,
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and coordinated together, burden for the increase.
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So we spent a lot of time for just getting to know one another, pursuit the truth together and tried to care for one another.
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We came here with another family and there were no saints here, no church life here, but within few weeks we started Fresher's Fair.
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Right away, our house was filled with people.
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We thought maybe one or two students would come, but actually 12 students came.
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So we're there about one week in Cardiff and we got 12 students sitting in our, actually it was Brother John and Gloria's home.
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And at first we just opened Friday night for home meeting, and then 2 weeks later
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we just had to open a second night for home meeting.
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My name is Ben and I'm a student at Cardiff University in Wales, United Kingdom.
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I met the saints on Fresher's Week at the table and they were giving out gospel tracts and
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I was very open to the ministry. And so I was able to jump right into the church life.
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I think the Lord is just so sovereign, so loving, that He would send two families
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to Cardiff and He sent myself to Cardiff so that we can labor together
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in the Lord and contact other students.
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And when we started to speak the truth to them, they just uh, you could of heard a pin drop.
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They're just listening to every word; they just loved it.
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These students they're not that interested in board games,
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instead they were interested in singing, releasing of the spirit, touching the spirit, and enjoy the Lord.
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We said to these students that you could be filled in spirit by speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
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So we began showing them how to speak the hymns.
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They started speaking to one another and immediately as they spoke the hymns to one another, they just got touched by the Lord.
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And that night after the meeting as they walked home, they told us, they said, "I feel like my battery got recharged!"
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So they were really touched by the Spirit just by speaking the hymns.
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This year, the past Welcome Dinner, same thing.
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This time actually we added another thing; we told them you need to say, "Amen".
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So in the room we had 18 new ones including 12 unbelievers.
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And at the beginning we encouraged them, you can speak "Amen", means "Yes', and also you can speak the hymns.
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So as soon as those new ones opened up their mouths and said "Amen" and started speaking the hymns, they were just totally carried away.
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The whole meeting was just like a church meeting, you cannot tell, it was full of new ones.
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They just started saying "Amen" and speaking the hymns.
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That night we felt the Lord was with us, the Lord was present with us, and it was so strong.
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12 received the Lord. Actually all of them received the Lord, all the unbelievers.
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Then after the meeting, Ben, well we also told them that you can be baptized now.
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So after the meeting, Ben went around asking them,
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"Did you receive the Lord?" When they said "Yes", "So you can be baptized now."
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So 6 of them, they were just ready and lined up and went upstairs to the bathroom and we baptized them.
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We were experimenting how to preach the gospel in the town center, which is like downtown in the U.S.
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And the town center there, we felt maybe we could do some singing,
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because in Wales, there's a strong culture of singing, and that kind of thing.
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And especially in the Welsh Revival, it was started with one gentleman named Evan Roberts with 4 or 5 other girls.
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They went around, traveling around the country and sang. So we decided maybe we could try that.
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And we found that it changed the whole atmosphere
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because in the past if you pass out a gospel tract, most of the people would reject you or ignore you.
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But when you sing, it kind of creates a very attracting atmosphere
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and people would just stop, listen, smile, and receive something from you.
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Of course this is not always the case but most of the people become a little bit more warm, more open.
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So it was a very good exercise for us to go sing.
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We heard about the Welsh Revival, hundreds of thousands got saved, and they received the Lord, but where are they today?
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Just back because there is no church life, no containers,
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so even though there was a revival, they received the Lord, there's no way they could practice the church life.
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So having a home here, open your house, then the students and the new ones can come and meet.
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Tuesday we have a prayer meeting in the evening.
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And then on Thursday I have the meeting with local students. And then on Friday we have home meeting, Lord's Day meeting,
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but throughout the week, almost daily we'll have meetings on campus.
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We felt a real burden to contact local people and have bible studies with them.
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And so we've had a few occasions,
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well, every Thursday night we have a bible study with some local students in one of the brothers' residences at the uni (university).
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So that's been a real encouragement, we're gaining, slowly, bit by bit, some more local people.
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The Lord has been blessing us. Even though it's small, our labor is small. It's not a big work; it's a small work.
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We're realizing that it's a lampstand, not a light tower, just like Brother Lee said.
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It's a small work and the quality is more important than quantity.
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We're very happy that we can participate in this move and we pray that many more families
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would pick up the burden to move like GTCA to other cities and even look further to Europe.