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Top Chrétien's story is amazing.
In just a few moments you are going to hear Marie France's testimony
that tells us how, through the KnowingGod website,
which is one of the Top Chrétien websites,
she discovered Jesus
and how her life has changed completely.
And it's for this that we exist. To see lives transformed.
In fact, Top Chrétien's story began many years ago
when I had just discovered the Gospel
and accepted Jesus.
God put in my heart the desire for people to meet God.
And God truly touched my life 0:00:34.768,0:00:38.271 so that I would become an evangelist through Internet.
At the very beginning of my Christian life,
God led me to work for a well-known evangelist,
named Billy Graham, who came to Bercy in Paris to preach the Gospel.
And I remember I was there on the platform at Bercy,
I was 19 years old, seeing all those people coming to Jesus
and praying that prayer to God and saying
"Lord, use my life for you, use me to win souls."
The Internet didn't exist then, but God already knew what he was going to do!
Then, many years later,
when I was church planting as a Pastor
in southern France with my wife, Muriel.
It was at the beginning of Internet and I even set up my first website!
And through that website, I came to understand certain Internet principles.
One year later, one of my pastor friends said:
"Eric, what you're doing is good. We in fact, really need a website for Christians."
And it is thus that Top Chrétien came into being in 1999.
God provided people and technical means
and we began to build this website.
At that same time, I became very, very sick,
and as I was in a hospital, very close to death,
(the doctors were even astonished that I was still alive)
God spoke to me.
God, through one of my friends,
said to me, "Eric, my grace is sufficient for you."
It was through a Bible verse, in fact,
a verse that we find in the Word of God which states:
"My grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in your weakness."
It was as if God had allowed that I be very weak at that time,
because He was going to do something that would be very powerful.
And I had to truly trust Him, trust in His grace.
Top Chrétien's story is truly a story of God's grace.
God has brought people in miraculous ways:
A young person named David who was studying for his PHD in England.
And all of a sudden God speaks to him and says,
"David, you are going to become a Missionary on the Internet."
It didn't even exist but he already had the call!
Then, one day, at a wedding, in a really unexpected way, we met!
We were at the same table!
One other day, when Top Chrétien had already started to grow,
I met someone on a train.
I had just spoken about him to one of my friends saying,
"I really need to meet this Christian.
I think he could really help us at Top Chrétien!"
And there he is, I meet him in an astonishing way on a train.
And it goes on like this, an extraordinary story
bringing together people God had called.
And today, behind the Top Chrétien,
behind the 50 million visitors who have already visited the Top Chrétien website,
behind the 2 million people who have already said:
"I want to accept Jesus as Savior, I want to go further!"
behind the 16 languages of KnowingGod, behind MonEglise.net,
there is a whole team serving the Lord,
having responded to the call of God.
There are amazing technical means which cannot be seen from the portal.
And there is the visible part of Top Chrétien, which you see everyday, like
the Thought for the Day, and all the other ressources.
But there is most of all what you don't see:
the team working here
which has decided to say “yes” to God's call.
And today, this team needs you.
We have seen Top Chrétien develop in different stages from the start
and then came the launching of KnowingGod, of MonEglise.net,
many phases like this in which God intervened.
And we believe that today we are beginning a new stage for Top Chrétien,
a stage that is decisive!
We are 22, working in 150m². It's really too small.
And today we have the possibility to buy
all of the Top Chrétien offices and thus, to triple our workspace.
We could easily use more space:
we will finally have a meeting room, a prayer room,
and we really need these, and I know that God is opening the doors for us.
But I know how God works, He works with us.
He works with me, He works with you.
And I believe that today,
well, God can put it on your heart, you who are listening to me now,
to support us in this project,
to be partners with us so that we can buy
the Top Chrétien offices.
Do you want to take a moment to pray,
and if you can, if you have it on your heart,
if God puts it on your heart, well, to give a donation,
to support us in this project
so that we can buy the Top Chrétien offices
and move to a new stage, to continue to serve you in a better way,
to continue to reach more people with the Gospel,
to continue to see people transformed.
I'll let you watch Marie-France's testimony and
I'll be back right after that.
Hello, my name is Marie-France and I am 36 years old.
About eight months ago I met God,
at least, I gave him my life.
This, after a life of drugs,
a past during which I regularly consumed ***
and all sorts of substances which could enable me to enjoy partying.
After a difficult childhood, in which I had a violent father,
an unpredictable father,
a father who had no scruples to beat my mother in front of us and to beat his children.
After all that, after having looked for the bearings that I lacked,
after having looked for people to love me,
I turned to God. It was 8 months ago.
I typed on the Internet: "How to pray to God"
and I came to the website KnowingGod.net.
On this website, there was a letter, a letter they called
"God's Love Letter."
I read it.
And in this letter, there were all the words of love
that are written in the Bible, the Word of God.
And in these words were the things that I really needed to hear.
I searched for someone to love me,
I looked to understand who I was, to be able to find a reason to live.
And this letter gave me all the answers.
On this website, there was also a prayer that we could recite
if we wanted our life to change and I wanted my life to change.
And this prayer said that I knew that
Jesus was the one who came to save me,
that he was truly God, and that there was a hope I could hold on to.
Now, I can say that I am a Christian.
Now, I can say that I believe in God.
And now, I can say that my life has really changed.
If you would like to see more people touched by God on the Internet,
then help us now.
We are faced with this new decisive stage in the growth of Top Chrétien.
I would even say this is a vital stage
because if we do not buy our offices,
we will find ourselves without offices.
If we find ourselves outside, we will need new offices.
And if we need new offices, we will need to buy them in any case.
So, then, let's do it now! Pray and then give your best donation.
Make a donation today to Top Chrétien.
Give so that we can buy.
Don't think that your gift is too small.
I think that if we are thousands to do it, we will succeed!
Would you commit yourself now, to be by our side?
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I believe that we are going to enter into a new stage in the life of Top Chrétien.
God is going to bless us together.
Thank you!