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with us? What else will distinguish me and your need of healing. God put it in my heart to
people from all the other people on the face of return and minister to the immigrant families at
the earth?” After reading this, I began to pray Rowland Heights Community Christian Church.
instead, “God will you be with me if I went into I have served here for two years and during
full-time ministry?” God responded, amidst all this time I realized that I am simply laying
the other fears I had, that yes I will be with you. down a foundation for the next generation. Paul
As I applied for seminaries I began to reminds us in 1 Cor. 3:11 that “No one can lay
prayerfully consider what ministry context any foundation other than the one already laid,
God was preparing me for. Would it be which is Jesus Christ.” As a new generation
missions abroad? Would it be a para-church of leaders are discipling and training up God’s
organization? As I began to pray, God made me people for works of service my prayer is that
more aware of my own context, specifically the this local body of believers may continue to
upbringing I was a part of. The Asian American mature. May we seek more ways to be the
church has with it many unique qualities and welfare of our city Rowland Heights. May we
also many unique forms of brokenness. On top continue to welcome strangers and foreigners
of the disconnect often found between parents into a community defined solely by Jesus. May
and their children, in immigrant homes there are we follow Jesus as we carry his name into every
two different heart languages wedged between sector of our schools, workplaces, and families.
parents and their children. The critical time May we continue to be the church where people
when teenagers form their own self-identity can gather and meet with the living God. The
is also burdened by balancing two opposing God who calls us is faithful, praise God for
cultures. These are just some of the ways that everything recorded in these pages – to him be
the immigrant experience can be divisive and in all glory and honor forever. Amen.
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