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Correspondence Address |
| October 25, 2004 |
In 1993 she graduated and left for Taiwan in June. She arrived in Taiwan with $475 in her pocket, she thought she was rich. It is great how the Lord blinds one sometimes,so they can’t see the whole picture of things to come, other wise sometimes they won’t go through the door the Lord opens because of fear. She didn’t know where she was going to live, didn’t know how to change or spend the money or even to buy food to eat. Only trusting the Lord that He would provide as the Word of God promised.
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She quickly realized that there is a world that is totally different than what she was accustomed to in the US. She was shocked and deeply sorrowed in her heart to see the way people lived and the devotion they gave to their false gods. Through many prayers and many tears she asked God how she could reach so many people for him being only one. She came to realize, He was reaching His arms out even farther than she was and He would show her the way. There was no Holiness work there at all. Many problems rose up because of her standards. She soon found out that everybody didn’t love her. She caused them to see the truth of God’s word and they soon felt condemned from the word she spoke and her way of dressing with long hair. Their spirit did not agree with her spirit and they realized she wasn’t going to change for them. After about five years, Taiwan Ministries officially became a legal organization and a board was formed with Sister Linda Tobman as president, Rev. Charles Pahlman, as vice president and Brother Scott and Sister Angela Johnson as secretary and treasurer. The work started with teaching Adult Sunday school and Children’s Sunday school classes in the church that invited her. While she was there she started handing out tracts in the park and through that she started a park ministry, preaching and singing with the help of others. From this came Bible studies, preaching, founding a church, seminars, and children’s camps and now she has a small English school in the mountains to reach the children for Jesus in Chung-Liao. |
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The work in Taiwan has been on going for over eleven years and through Taiwan Ministries there are seven others who are Free Gospel Graduates, doing many different kinds of work in different places. Each one has their own ministry. Bro Eric Hall is now pastoring a church. The church was started by Sis Linda, Bro Eric and Sis. Sandra Tseng, a native girl who is now working in prison ministry. Bro Eric, Sis Jennifer Simpson and Sis Gloria Wilson are also teaching at Glad Tidings Christian School. Sis Jennifer Dismore is teaching Sunday school in Miaoli church.
Through a home Bible study in 1997, a church was established, Holiness Pentecostal Church, where Sister Linda preached for five years, then she started other ministries everywhere she could. Her ministries consisted of; park ministry, Bible studies, and summer camps for children, teaching English (using Christian material to reach them for Jesus), also speaking engagements, etc.
Many Pastors and Evangelists including Bro Charles Pahlman, Bro & Sis William Hill, Sis Connie Roles, Zeke and Tarry Berg and others have visited the work in Taiwan, blessing the souls of the people as well as encouraging the Taiwan workers. They have gone to prisons to preach salvation, to the parks, in the mountains and traveled to the bottom of the island, to reach the people in Taiwanas they go throughout the island or wherever the Holy Ghost opens the doors.Through these many services, people have been saved, baptized in the Holy Ghost, Healed, demon possessed released and Hearts mended.
At this time, Sister Linda, at the age of sixty is now ministering in Taichung City and Chung-Liao in the mountains. It is a very busy life for her. Sister Linda works in Chung-Liao from Wednesday through Saturday. She is reaching the Buddhist and Taoist Children, as well as adults with the word of God. She doesn’t charge them anything for English; it is all free in the mountains. She has two children’s classes going at the same time, with the help of her coworker Grace, Wednesday through Saturday, with the adults on Thursday night. They are studding Bible (KJV) as their main English study.
Isaiah 6:8 was her class verse in F.G.B.I. and she went when God called her out, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” She was forty-nine when she first went on the mission field. Her only experience for qualifying was being a wife, mother, Sunday school teacher and being a Bible School graduate. Eagerly she went where the Holy Ghost was sending her.
