ROSE NG
A Vietnamese who was called by God not only to be an interpreter for her fellow Vietnamese who were participants to the Ancient Path Seminar experienced healing and reconciliation.
HER TESTIMONY:
“Everything just started on a Sunday morning of September 25, 2016. I was preparing to be ready to go to INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY (ICA) church, Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the service. When I came back from the kitchen, I checked the time on my phone and I saw so many missed calls from teacher “Pizzicato Caprice" , Recy who is my workmate at Footprints International School in Phnom Penh. I called her back. Meanwhile, she asked me to help to interpret for a group of Vietnamese who had come to Cornerstone Church in Phnom Penh to join the seminar. She said that she doesn't know any Vietnamese translator who can help, she remember me and I did say "yes".
I came to Cornerstone Church in the evening on that day as I had promised. There I met Family Foundations International (FFI team ) from the Philippines (Bro. David, Sisters Lidia and Tina) and the group from Vietnam. The healing and reconciliation began from that day!
In two days joining The Ancient Paths seminar as a Vietnamese translator I had been blessed so much. All the lessons were just right for my issues. Do you know that I have not good relationship with my parents, especially my father! Since I was in Kindergarten long long time ago, I did not live with my father. I grew up with my grandparents from my mother’s side. My parents are not happy with each other but they have never committed to divorce, they just not live together as a couple. Because of that, I always blame my father for all the unhappiness in my family and my life. My father had an alcohol addiction. I spent almost 20 years hating my father and even when I became a Believer of Christ I still hate him but I prayed for God to change my Father.
For almost 7 years I prayed for my father but it seems nothing happened to change his life. I wondered why God did not answer me in this case until I attended the Ancient Paths Seminar. God used the lessons and listening to prayers of FFI team blessed my heart, opened my eyes, broke my wall and changed my mind set. There I realized that I wanted my father to change but I myself had not changed my eyes on him.
Two weeks before the seminar on September 25, my father was in the hospital because of cardiovascular incident and now he is living with paralysis on his legs. I just find so many reasons then to not come back home to visit because I avoided to face my father. But after the last day of the seminar, I was changed. I felt so broken. I realized how important the father’s blessings is and how important to honor our parents. So I decided to buy the bus ticket to come back from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Vietnam on Friday of September 30, 2016
When I went to the bus station to buy the tickets the seller saw in my passport and reminded me about my birthday is on October 1. I forgot about my birthday . And I did not like to celebrate it for so many years. But from what I did learn from the seminar, It will be good to have my father’s blessing on my birthday, to cut the curse which I carried on for 32 years.
I left Phnom Penh early morning and arrived in my home town in Vietnam at noon time. My mother
picked me up and rode me home. The first thing I did when I saw my father was to hug him and say, "I LOVE YOU". You know, it is not easy for me to do something like that because it is not my nature with my father. I have never ever done that to him before. And I told my father and mother about the reason why I come back home. I told them what I received from the seminar and how it changes me.
After all of these, I then did ask my father to prepare blessing for me in the morning of October 1 - my birthdate. And in the evening of September 30, my mom told me that so long time ago, she got mad at my father and she did throw the chicken which was prepared to celebrate my birthday to the grave which is near to my grandparents house. My mom after all these years said sorry to me and I forgave her.
But that story explained so many things about the meaning of my English name "Rose" which I used when I left home and have believed in so many years that is the name God calls me. Its meaning is that He, "Jesus rose from the grave". (My actual Vietnamese name if translated is in fact Pearl).
On October 1, my birthdate, my father blessed me to have wisdom, to have a heart to honor my parents, to be happy and to succeed. I'm grateful for his blessings to me and my mother too. After that I asked my father, "Do you want to accept Jesus? Do you know that because of Jesus my life was changed and you did see that, right!", And my father said "yes", I then prayed with him and he followed me. That is how God saved my father's soul and bring him peace of eternity. And that is the way God saved my whole family too! We have an awesome God who can change everything and save every soul. Absolutely, I trust so with all my heart!
Blessings,
ROSE NG