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the videographers, sang in the choir, helped He fought valiantly as his church fellowship
with special music, scripture reading and made friends again surrounded him with untiring
the event a memorable day for our family. On support. His hope in the Lord Jesus Christ
that beautiful, hot, summer Saturday, Nate and I was not disappointed. He experienced joy
made our wedding vows in the presence of God, and thanksgiving during his fight against lung
family and friends. cancer. He proclaimed daily that “Every day is
a Gift!” He was able to give a public testimony
Our vows were painfully tested five years later on Thanksgiving Day 2011 at RHCCC’s
when I became ill with severe symptoms of Thanksgiving Worship Service. Our Father God
bipolar disorder. I was not able to take care of called my dad home to Heaven on February 19,
myself, my three-year-old daughter and newborn 2013. My parents’ fellowship group friends
son. My husband bravely held on to his job and came alongside my mother to plan my dad’s
took care of our two little ones in Coudersport, funeral and celebrated God’s work in his life.
Pennsylvania, where we were living in 2007.
I came home to southern California so my Since my father’s promotion to be with our
parents can find good psychiatric doctors for me Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven, he gained two
and take care of me. Pastor Kuang prayed for more granddaughters. My brother’s youngest
me and my family. RHCCC friends provided daughter was born a few days after my dad
faithful support of my family during this intense went to Heaven in 2013. Since then, God has
time of me wrestling with multiple admissions healed me of bipolar disorder; I have stayed off
to psychiatric hospitals while trying different psychiatric medication since September 2015.
medications to treat mania and depression. My And in 2016, it was such a blessed that I gave
dad, Anhua Chu, was a strong, brilliant, self- birth to a new baby girl. My mom’s church
reliant man with a winning personality. He friends came to pray for me and my baby girl
loved me very much. It was during this struggle shortly after she was born and showered us with
of helping me through bipolar disorder that my blessings and gifts. My mom still faithfully
dad came to the end of his resources. He felt attends the weekly adult Mandarin Chinese
powerless for the first time in his life. Yet the Sunday school at RHCCC. She continues
hope and support that his church friends pointed to be involved with the fellowship groups
him to the reality that he needed Jesus Christ as well. RHCCC has been with our family
to be not just the God of the Universe but also through wedding, sickness, funeral, health, and
the LORD in his life. So he gave thanks, in the new birth. We give thanks, praise and glory
midst of the powerlessness and pain, because to God for the ministry, service, friendships
through that season of suffering, he met the and tangible body of Christ demonstrated by
Lord Jesus Christ anew. members of this community. You, friends, are
truly a community Christian church in Rowland
My bipolar symptoms stabilized in two years, Heights.
but then my dad became ill with lung cancer.
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