What can I say? There you go... My
dearest dad and mom on my Convocation on 27/10/2000.
Picture taken in front of Bristol
Cathedral, England where my convocation was held.
Ha...CUTE?? VERY CUTE? Yup..that's right...just like me. hahaha.. This
my Little Nephew, Athanasius Lin Zhan Mao.
.
This is my best friend who is
currently studying in U.S.
This is my brother and
sister-in-law
This
photo is taken at Parkway Station, Bristol, England in 1998.
These
are those friends that really helped me to 'get through' my life while
I suffer so much difficulties on my first year in England.
 This
are my friends from OCF ( Oversea Christian Fellowship) Bristol,
UK.
They are fun, great, wonder God's children. |
 Oversea
Christian Fellowship, Bristol, UK 2000 final year students from both
Bristol
University and University of the West of England. |
 Cell
group that I was in when I was attending OCF, Bristol, UK 1999-2000 -
God's
Little Kindergarden. |
OVERSEA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, BRISTOL,
UNITED KINGDOM EASTER CAMP 2000
FROM 3RD TO 6TH APRIL 2000 AT CEFN LEA, WALES
"BROKEN TO BE MADE WHOLE" - PSALM 51:17
Talking about friends in my life.
They are very important to me. Just by looking at the photos
above,
it really remind me of how important friends are to me.
Each
and every friend of mine has a wonderful story behind, but....each and
every one of them are so special to me. Friends remind me so much
of what fun is, what trust is, what friendship is and what is
independant.
Besides....friends did teach me a lots of things about life. For
the first time I experienced care and love is. I always had
difficulties
of knowing, understanding and believing the existence of care and love,
except God's love. However, again and again, God told me moment
by
moment, through relationships, through experiences, knowledge of why He
created friends for me.
Even though it is impossible to get a friend
like
Jesus, like God in this world, but God did put not only one friend in
my
life. He gave me a lot of friends which when they all combined
together,
it will about the prefection.
Since I attended OCF, Bristol ( Oversea Christian
Fellowship, Bristol, UK) since September 1999, I started to have
another
concept about friends. For the past 2 years, I have a narrow
preception
about friend because only 2 to 3 of my friends were there to help me to
get through the most difficult time during my stay at Bristol.
After
I came over to England, my faith in God, my relatioship with Him were
very
good in the first few months and I experienced how wonderful is the
power
of prayer. He was so faithful and so wonderful and so merciful to
me. But when things getting better, I started to forget about
God,
about how wonderful He was to me. I asked for Him only when I
need
Him and God was so amazing and faithful, even though I walked away from
Him, been unfaithful to Him, He listened, He helped. After years, I
once
again felt lonely, lonely in the sense, I cannot experience my
relationship
with God and i started to search for a fellowship and the only way I
tried,
was the Christian Union at UWE, Bristol, then, talked to Mary Morgan
from
BISC ( Bristol International Student Centre). She was kind of
helpful
and gave me details of OCF, Bristol. I contacted the president
and
a best friend of hers emailed me back on behalf of her, invited me for
OCF meeting. I was overjoy, and when i went to CU that evening, I
met another good sister in Christ from Zimbabwe. I called her a
couple
of time after that and invited her for OCF with me as well. Which
was so amazing that we started attending OCF. Friends... i always
tried not to put too much feeling on them nowaday, until one of the
great
servent of God from OCF invited me again and again for the OCF Camp
2000.
Her encouragement really made me think of a lot of thing and, yes, I am
back with God now...which is the most wonderful thing i have now, today
in my life. I was so happy until i can rely on Him on anything,
including
the examinations, my final year undergraduate examinations. He
made
me enjoyed those examinations so much because with difficulties, i
enjoyed
His protection, His provident. See...friends are so important
that
they can encourage you back to God as well. :) I learned so much
from these bunch of sisters and brothers in Christ. One of the
most
important lesson I learned from them is the power of prayer.
Wonderful
reminding!
