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\u2018My great-grandmother was born in China in 1902 in the province of Guangdong.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n She didn’t know God. Her life was strongly marked by sadness. After giving birth to a daughter (who would become my grandmother), Madame Lee had the misfortune to give birth to stillborn babies.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n She would have liked to have boys, as is often the wish of parents in Chinese culture. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n My great-grandmother turned to Buddhist practices and even incantations to obtain boys, but without success.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n One day, a couple of Chinese missionaries arrived in the village. When the missionary’s wife met my great-grandmother, she soon noticed the sadness on her face. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The missionary then invited my great-grandmother to discover the Bible in a house meeting. She accepted. She went to these meetings with her daughter Lin, then aged 12. Each time, she reminded her daughter: “We mustn’t let Dad know we’re going to see Christians. Don’t ever tell him.\u201d<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mrs Lee and her daughter kept going to the meetings where those native missionaries shared the Gospel.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Their hearts gradually opened up to the love and the grace of God. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n They both gave their hearts to Jesus.\u2019 <\/em>Yukki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Extract from the book \u2018Leave the shore!\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the same Lin Lee who has just celebrated her 100th birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last Saturday, 33 members of the family came to the Old People\u2019s Home near Paris for that special occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lin, who as a child discovered the Gospel with her mother in China, has kept all of her life a strong faith in God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the celebration, Yukki’s grandmother, her face radiant, prayed for us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In spite of her frail body, Madame Lee is a blessed one hundred year old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n