2007: Norwich Christian restaurateur and hotelier Paul Lin was the main speaker at the
Norwich FGBMFI chapter lunch at the
Maid’s Head Hotel in the city on Thursday January 18, from 1-2pm.
Paul was born in China and came to the UK after the 1989 Tiannamen Square massacre. He had already graduated in Mechanical Engineering and worked as a manager in a big manufacturing company in South China
He came to UK to study English as a foreign language student and knew no-one when he arrived.
“I met my future wife at a bus stop in Sheffield shortly after she had returned to the UK after having been working for two years in Hong Kong with well-known drugs worker Jackie Pullinger (who wrote Chasing the Dragon),” said Paul. "She spoke to me in Cantonese and told me the Gospel.
“We went to the Chinese Church in Sheffield which was very active and I got baptised the following year and married in December 1991 and we now have three lovely sons.”
Since then, Paul has sold hot dogs in Cambridge, cleaned people’s homes, filled supermarket shelves, picked potatoes and hand-stirred Kettle Crisps on the night shift.
The couple moved to Norwich in 1992 and went into catering eventually starting up his own Chinese take-away business. He has now expanded into restaurants and has several dotted over Norfolk.
Paul also has a hotel and says: “I have had to seek God to help me so much as it has been a very humbling experience.”
At the lunch, Paul will talk about his work and his faith as part of the regular series of Norwich FGBMFI monthly events held at the Maid’s Head Hotel on Tombland in the centre of Norwich.
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