About Lin Lu’s New Documentary Memoirs: Soaring Seeds —— The Blessing of Early Rain fellowship In Chengdu
When the Chinese government executed a “massive raid of the Early Rain Church in Chengdu” on December 9, 2018, more than 100 members were detained. Though many were released, they were forced to sign pledges that they would not return to the church.
Pastor Wang Yi, was tried in secret and sentenced to nine years in prison on trumped-up charges of “subversion of power” and “illegal business operations.” On December 30, 2019.
Author Lin Lu was one of the early founders of the Early Rain Fellowship in Chengdu, China. Many people saw Pastor Wang Yi’s crown cover, but few people knew the origins of Wang yi’s spiritual life. Lin Lu is one of these few people.
Compared with Wang Yi and Early Rain’s choice to go public, Lin Lu represents another spiritual gesture: quiet and hidden.
Linlu’s documentary Book: Soaring Seeds, Blessings of Early Rain Fellowship in Chengdu is rare historical data.
Moved by God’s love, Linlu interviewed the early members of the fellowship one by one, recalling the interaction between individual lives, struggles, sadness, persecution and commitment.
Early group portraits of Early Rain Fellowship, delicate individual portraits. The concise style presents the real lives one by one, and let us see that God is the one that really makes our lives grow.
Every chain is necessary. The book Soaring Seeds will sort out the interlaced chains.
Lin Lu has reflected on her inner fears accumulated over 50 years, and discovered and found her own pattern and reasons of escaping from public participation and the background history.
Soaring Seeds is a non-fiction memoir with real brushwork, accompanied by hundreds of Linlu original oil diary paintings and historical photos. Soaring Seeds is Full color illustrations.
The original healing diary oil painting, spiritual personal historical narrative, Lin Lu’s words are full of care, understanding, compassion and power, healing the soul in the heavenly love.
Linlu’s paintings show her life stories, as they relate to her soul’s healing process, with a heavy abundance of oil color, presenting the themes of “accompaniment, healing, care, and hope”
The Blessing of Early Rain fellowship is destined to be an important chapter of Chinese house churches, marking a leap in openness and publicizing.
Soaring Seeds is a must read to those who want to know more about a persecuted church in China.
