As soon as they went back to Zheng Zhou, the
three leaders called the leaders of their different sending
churches to inform them of the training. They asked the participants
to make one-month work arrangements and to trust as much of
their work as possible to others, so that they could concentrate
well during the training. They asked them to get to the training
places on April 16th. Amazingly, every one of the coworkers
who were supposed to attend the meetings arrived at the appointed
places on time. Not one was absent. They called the appointed
number after they got off the train, and certain people would
come to meet them or pick them up.
From what we heard later, the same thing happened
in the six places on the evening of 16th. Just before it got
dark, several Singaporean teachers came and created a horrific
atmosphere by claiming that the situation was tense outside,
or that our whereabouts had been found out, or that our cell
phones had been tracked according to inside information from
the police station, and so on and so forth. Taking the advantage
of the people’s fear, they suggested separating our
coworkers into groups. Every six trainees constituted a group
in each place: two CGF coworkers and four from the Little
Flock (two male and two female); besides, there were two teachers,
a watchman and a cook. All together there were ten people
in each group. At first they were divided into 17 groups in
17 different places. Meanwhile, they said that for security’s
sake, they needed to take all the leaders’ cell phones
away and keep them for the coworkers. Immediately, some CGF
coworkers became suspicious about the way they were handling
the situation, but considering that they were Singaporean,
they understood it as excessive carefulness due to over sensitivity
to the political atmosphere in China. They figured there could
not be any other problems, so they let down all of their suspicion
and guard.
