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3rd September 2010
Swedish Pastor's Daughter at home with Jesus
On Thursday August 26th, the daughter of Pastors Lennart and Carolina Torebring died. Linn was 25 years old and had battled a severe form of epilepsy. Linn is pictured above, third from the left.
The Torebrings and the Södermalms Church in Stockholm have become close friends with King's Church International in recent years. They have attended the G12 Europe Conference hosted in Windsor and Pastor Wes and leaders from KCI have regularly visited Sweden.
Senior Pastor Wes Richards and Pastors Terry and Margaret Beasley attended the funeral held on Friday 3rd September at 11am in Stockholm.
Please read the message below from Carolina Torebring which was posted on their church website on Saturday 28th August.
‘Our beloved daughter Linn has gone home to be with Jesus.
On Thursday August 26th our beloved daughter Linn left this earth while at home in her apartment on Götgatan in Stockholm. Linn lived to be 25 years old. Linn was our second child, our second daughter.
At this moment she is inexpressibly missed by me and Lennart, her beloved husband David and her sisters Sofia and Joy and her brother Michael with families, grandparents, aunt and uncle Ann-Sofie and Anders with family, uncle Fredrik with family and many wonderful friends in the Södermalms Church. She has left such a great emptiness that only God Himself can fill.
Linn has, since the age of 8, been fighting against a severe form of epilepsy and during the past few years it has been, to say the least, unmerciful towards her brain. As a family we have witnessed a suffering that cannot be described in words. During this summer the battle has been very difficult and at times she has stayed in our home to find rest.
The wonderful thing about Linn's life is that, despite all the tears, it's not a story about suffering, but instead a story about commitment, passion and deep love for Jesus Christ. From childhood on the Word of God and Jesus' warm embrace have been Linn's safe haven and His love has always driven her to reach out to others in prayer and care. Her testimony is written in gold in my own heart. She is my hero and my great example as a person who lived to the fullest and went all the way with God in her life. Since 2004 she continually worked with winning and making disciples. She now leaves behind her 10 wonderful girls in her cell group who will continue in her footsteps. Just during these last few months Linn wrote 3 books of which the first one was published this Spring. The book is about Vincent the Meatball who meets the master chef. This book was an example of the burden Linn had in her heart for all the children who suffer because they are different. The other two books will soon be published and are uniquely different kinds of books that could only be birthed out of a close relationship with Jesus.
Linn has always won people for Jesus, always prayed for the lost and sought the lonely. This summer, even when she was most ill, she forced us to drive her to church because she was to pray for a prostitute whom she had led to Christ the day before. Yes, that's who she was, God's daughter Linn. Not many people knew what a battle she fought on her own when no one was around. So many ambulance transports with unfamiliar faces around her and so many days in distress. But all this only made Linn more grateful for the good that life offered. No one could rejoice with others the way she could.
I spoke with my beloved daughter Linn at 6.40pm this last Thursday night and she told me she had prayed for me and her dad. She also said she and her husband had prepared a covenant offering to be given at the coming Sunday service in order to see a breakthrough for the church. She wanted to give a monetary offering as a sign of her covenant commitment to God. Linn never got to give her money. Instead God wanted Linn.
Linn's last book manuscript was on her younger brother's bedside table when Linn left us. The book is called "The impossible dream". It's about Hannah who was yearning for a son, but God asked more of her than to dream he own dream. He wanted something more. God wanted her to give her dream to God so that He would be able to bless the earth. Hannah gave her son Samuel to God. Linn often cried over that text and God gave her the content of this lovely book which Linn will leave for us who remain here.
Linn gave her dream to God, the dream of living her life with us and now she is at home with her beloved Jesus. At the same moment as Linn breathed her last breath in her apartment, I was in the church preaching to my women leaders about the importance of living on earth for heaven's sake. Together we sang the song " Holy and warm heaven I found in your open arms."
Thank you Jesus for the time she was mine and Lennart's!
Mom, Carolina
A warm Thank You to all our wonderful friends and all of our beloved church for your great love and comfort to us.'
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