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Well I haven’t blogged about my church experience here in the Bay area thus far, so I thought that it might be the right time for me to do so now. So after arriving on Thursday, 2nd August, I shifted straight into my current place (yes you already have my address if you read my US blog). While most of my housemates (who arrived a week earlier) started working on Friday 3rd August, I could enjoy the luxury of sleeping in while they get themselves oriented to working life in US. It would be most appropriate at this moment that I talk about my Friday lunch with my supervisor, but that’s left to another day.
Anyway, this is roughly how the macro picture was built up. First, my mum had communicated with my uncle and aunt (who stay in Cupertino [that’s 40mins south drive from my place]) and they had very kindly sent a list of churches in the Bay Area. (For whatever reason someone might need this list, you can Google for Chinese churches in the bay area and it’ll return you with the list.) Second, after settling down, I saw that a apartment mate, Yingyue, with a bible on her table... so we got into an extended discussion about theological stuff. She is a relatively new believer (like 6 mths?), so she has a lot of interesting insights and stuff, coming from a baptist church. Back to the story.. so the end of the previous conversation was that we agreed to go to this church that was really close to us (since we didn't have cars the first sunday that we were here in the bay area).
However, true to me being me, I "over-slept" on Sunday morning. While I meant to wake up like at 8, I woke up at 10+. So I was thinking in my mind that I must have missed church, but Yingyue and myself decided to take a way anyway just to try our luck.. It was not too long a walk, about 5-10 minutes, on a chilly Sunday morning (so it seemed longer than it actually was). After we arrived at the church, we saw this... *drum roll... *
Elated by the fact that being late meant that we were early for service, we went straight in, and was greeted by very warm and friendly people. Just to give you an idea of how the demographics of the church is, it is made up of all Chinese (duh) mainly from Taiwan, and some China, and mostly above the age of 40, even though there is a good bunch of younger working people. I guess because of the place where the church is located, there are no student in the congregation. Mainly working people.
Anyway, to cut the long story short, since then, there have been several really interesting things that has happened:
1) I figured out that they are also supporting Hua Chuan
2) I went in for a service to find out that Pastor Chen Dao Ming (one of the speakers for one of our church's family camps) was speaking. Always good to see a familiar face and a validation that I'm going to the right church.
3) On top of that, I'm blessed to be able to serve in the church choir after being identified from the crowd and pulled in by the wife of the brother in-charge of the choir.
Once and once again God has proven to have been closely looking after me and paved that way for everything that me, and all his children do. Named this entry as it is because the song comes to my head so very often, seeing how much he has done for me and how much he has taken care of me in the past and on this trip to the US.
Will post more stuff about the sermon messages in the future if possible. Meanwhile, a photo of me in the choir robe. =)
Anyway, this is roughly how the macro picture was built up. First, my mum had communicated with my uncle and aunt (who stay in Cupertino [that’s 40mins south drive from my place]) and they had very kindly sent a list of churches in the Bay Area. (For whatever reason someone might need this list, you can Google for Chinese churches in the bay area and it’ll return you with the list.) Second, after settling down, I saw that a apartment mate, Yingyue, with a bible on her table... so we got into an extended discussion about theological stuff. She is a relatively new believer (like 6 mths?), so she has a lot of interesting insights and stuff, coming from a baptist church. Back to the story.. so the end of the previous conversation was that we agreed to go to this church that was really close to us (since we didn't have cars the first sunday that we were here in the bay area).
However, true to me being me, I "over-slept" on Sunday morning. While I meant to wake up like at 8, I woke up at 10+. So I was thinking in my mind that I must have missed church, but Yingyue and myself decided to take a way anyway just to try our luck.. It was not too long a walk, about 5-10 minutes, on a chilly Sunday morning (so it seemed longer than it actually was). After we arrived at the church, we saw this... *drum roll... *
Elated by the fact that being late meant that we were early for service, we went straight in, and was greeted by very warm and friendly people. Just to give you an idea of how the demographics of the church is, it is made up of all Chinese (duh) mainly from Taiwan, and some China, and mostly above the age of 40, even though there is a good bunch of younger working people. I guess because of the place where the church is located, there are no student in the congregation. Mainly working people.Anyway, to cut the long story short, since then, there have been several really interesting things that has happened:
1) I figured out that they are also supporting Hua Chuan
2) I went in for a service to find out that Pastor Chen Dao Ming (one of the speakers for one of our church's family camps) was speaking. Always good to see a familiar face and a validation that I'm going to the right church.
3) On top of that, I'm blessed to be able to serve in the church choir after being identified from the crowd and pulled in by the wife of the brother in-charge of the choir.
Once and once again God has proven to have been closely looking after me and paved that way for everything that me, and all his children do. Named this entry as it is because the song comes to my head so very often, seeing how much he has done for me and how much he has taken care of me in the past and on this trip to the US.
Will post more stuff about the sermon messages in the future if possible. Meanwhile, a photo of me in the choir robe. =)
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