1979, The third meeting
One day, Michele and I let us decide to go to Vichy because we learnt that T.L. and Daisy Osborn hold it a series of conferences. We did not know Vichy and, after our visit in this city, we did not know it more.
Indeed, arrived in the afternoon, we rest and eat in the hotel to go then to sleep us early. The following morning, we are in the big lounge to have breakfast there. The life is sweet in this place where everything was conceived so that the customer feels at ease. While I am in my second croissant there, a known voice makes me raise the head: can we take place next to you? What a surprise! It is T.L. Osborn who has just asked this question. Daisy is there also, radiant of beauty. Immediately, Michele and I we get up. After the presentations, we finish our coffee, whereas the Osborn begins to drink theirs, sat in our sides. We set mutually of our news. Suddenly, T.L. takes out a brochure of its jacket: it is about a publication which we produced:
The Unique. The Osborn is enthusiastic as for its presentation and for its contents:Everythings is inside, says T.L... What a beautiful instrument to touch those who do not know the Amur of Jesus! Add Daisy.
I quickly explain that churches are not adapted to welcome the drug-addicts or the others, that it marginalizes The Osborn listen to us with a lot of attention. When we finished, T.L. looks at Daisy and says to her: Loved, I believe that they are them!...
THE SON OF OSBORN
Michele and I let us not understand what's happend. But Brother Osborn explains:Michel, there is some time, in Paris, I was God's instrument to bring you some consolations while you had just lost your son. Now let me tell you what Daisy and I let us live at the moment: Last week, in the USA, we buried our 33-year-old son.Naturally, we were very affected by his death. Our journey in France was planned for several months because we were invited to come to preach in Vichy at the minister Jean-Louis Jayet.
We had no more the heart to come, but one morning, while we belonged in prayer in our chapel to Tulsa, the Lord Jesus spoke to our hearts by saying to us: - " go in France, I shall give you a son there "! Then we met you here to the hotel, and it seems to us that it is a God who organized all these things. Brother Michel, I shall make for you what I would have made for my son. Today, you are our consolation.
Michele and I let us be stunned. We got up to embrace very hardly some of the others. The emotion is very strong. Then we sit down again:
- Brother Genton, have you a premises which serves you as church in Paris?
No!
Then he gives me a bunch of keys:
Brother, I offer you 178 street Legendre in Paris, and I shall pay the rent until you can make it yourself! At this moment, I recognized the bunch of keys which I had put back to him some months ago of it. Finally, we have our church, a place indeed to us where we can organize the meetings which we want, as the Lord will inspire us to make it!
Yes, God is indeed a God of miracles!
In Vichy, the meetings chaired by the Osborn are magnificent. The last day, T.L. and Daisy ask us if they can come to visit us in our house, in Perreux.
We are very honored with this demand and, from the next day, we are on the way with them for the house
After their departure, the following morning, in my work, phone call. I take the phone and recognize at once the voice of T.L. Osborn. Brother Genton says to me, Daisy and I spoke about you, this morning. We deeply wish that you pass one month to us with your friends Bruno and Thérèse, to Tulsa, in the Oklahoma.
Say to me when you can come with Michele and we shall send you the return plane tickets for the United States. As for your stay, do not worry you, we take care of everything.