I guess that every one of us has a special testimony of how they met the Lord. Maybe apparently nothing particular happened, but it amazes me how He goes out of His way to conquer our hearts!
I was born in the UK in an Italian family and brought up as a catholic. I still remember my first communion (I was only 6!) and the incredible feeling of becoming a bride of Christ. I know I loved Jesus even then, I just didn’t know him personally.
As the years passed the deep hunger within me for “something more” grew and grew. I studied various philosophies, went to India, the USA (to stay with some Native Americans), led meditation groups, sang mantra. I honestly searched for the answer to my hunger anywhere the word “God” was mentioned. Looking back, I met many hungry people, all searching for the “truth” and motivated by a kind and compassionate heart. I knew who Jesus was from childhood but it somehow never clicked that He was the Truth I was searching for. In fact, the idea of proclaiming that there was only one Name and one Truth seemed absurd to me: it meant excluding everything else and in the deception of universal love this didn’t match up to my idea of what a loving God was like. I respected everyone’s views, believed in one God but that there where many ways to reach him and different names to call him with.
That’s why when my sister invited me to her church near London, Folly’s End, I only went to please her and to respect her beliefs. Little could I know that as soon as I entered the hall (the service hadn’t even started) that the Lord would totally blow me apart with a revelation of His love that left me in tears, speechless and with the words “I’ve finally come home” repeating themselves in my mind. I went up for the altar call, received prayer and was totally convinced by the Holy Spirit of the only truth possible: JESUS. It was so supernatural: everything I had ever believed no longer made sense. That evening, flying back to Milan, I spent the time on the plane trying to work out what to do with a new meditation group that I was starting the next evening (more than 15 people). The Lord’s answer was simple: read the Bible, teach them about the Holy Spirit, lead them to me and praise and worship me. Sounds simple!
1st step, buy a Bible!!!!
2nd step, internet, download a Bible and print all the scriptures that speak of the Holy Spirit
3rd step….tell everyone I knew, including the group, that everything I had believed and taught till that moment was not the Truth and then lead them to the Lord (that took some courage).
God is so faithful: they all got saved, one by one, and are all in church serving him. One is a missionary and is shortly leaving for Cambodia for full time Ministry, many are in the arts and drama ministry, one heads “Sabaoth shop” our Christian distribution network etc etc etc.

For over a year, we met in my tiny flat, studying the Word, worshipping Him, loving Him with all our hearts. Whenever I had enough money, I would fly back to the UK and attend church there and get more “food” to bring back to the group. We prayed for the Spirit to lead us to the right church for us here in Milan and eventually, in October 2000 we stumbled upon (let’s say, invisibly pushed by the Lord!) the Ministero Sabaoth. They had organised the 1st Christian Music Festival in Milan. Being a musician, one the of things I had asked the Lord was to find me a church where worship was priority: He answered way above my expectations! Since being saved, I had stopped singing in the secular world and had given Him my voice and gift. Anyone who come from an artistic secular career knows that there is a lot to be dismantled! I needed a church and people in authority over me to help me grow and mature. However great the gifting, it needs to be supported by good and saintly character and that takes a great deal of work and patience!
In church I jumped in at the deep end. I did 2 years of Bible studies in one, joined the intercessors group and prayed…lots! I had fallen in love with the Word by then so I spent hours studying the Bible and listening to teaching. I almost forgot about my singing: for a start, no one seemed to sing or play classical music in the evangelical churches. At my sister’s church in the UK, the Pastor had been a bass player for a very well known rock artist. The worship there was amazing but very unclassical! Our worship leader, Julim is an annointed Brazilian guitar player and singer, but again, very unclassical.
Everything always seemed to be in the wrong key: either too low or if I sang it high I was very operatic and loud and I felt embarrassed and it didn’t seem to fit in with a vision of unity. I decided the door to singing was definitely shut but the Lord had other ideas!
The Holy Spirit started inspiring music to fit scriptures: a dear friend, Paola, got married and I wrote the music to some verses from Song of Songs. Then it was a psalm, then another, then waking up during the night and going to the piano trying to play as quietly as possible and immediately recording (with my tiny portable cassette recorder) the words and music that flowed spontaneously. It was like a river. After, I would listen to the recordings and be amazed: that’s why I know that I didn’t write any of it! The greatest gift was that it was a restoration of a genre of music that I had felt had no place in the church. This had saddened me and made me feel out of place too. There was a lot of healing that came through this: a restoring of my identity.
I started singing in church, at conferences, anywhere there was an opening. I became one of Pastor’s intercessors and a cell group leader, and joy of joys started teaching at Bible school.
In 2003 I received an even greater gift from the Lord, my husband Corrado!
Today, we are leaders in Pastor Roselen’s Ministry.
Together we direct Sabaoth Records, a Christian recording studio with a vision to encourage Italian Christian artists to grow, compose and record music.

I am responsible for Sabaoth Films, which distributes Christian films in Italy and has a vision for producing new titles and dubbing existing ones into the Italian language.
Last year, I was Executive Director for the 1st Sabaoth Christian Film Festival, held in Milan.
I have been working with TBNE for the past three years and dub the female roles in programmes such as “Today with Marilyn Hickey”, “This is Your Day”, “The Joy of Music”, “Dino”, “Kid’s Club” etc. into the Italian language. I sing regularly in the Italian version of “Telethon”.
The Lord continues to bless me: this summer I had the opportunity to preach His Word which was another dream come true.

My desire is to serve Him faithfully, in whatever area He deems, with joy in my heart. To give Him the glory due to His name and trust only in Him but above all, whether spoken or in song:
“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth”