Connecting with God Archive

  • Joy Multiplied

    Joy Multiplied

    Submitted by Ulia…On Easter Sunday, our nursing home ministry group held special Easter services, after which one resident made a decision to become a Christian!  We also brought potted plants – a variety of tulips, lilies, hydrangeas, etc. – as gifts for the residents at...

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  • Building Each Other Up

    Building Each Other Up

    Submitted by Jacob…It was a great experience helping out with the Gracepoint Hsinchu retreat with my peers and hearing Andy preach in Chinese.  My peers and I have known each other since our freshman year of college (1996), and I think I can safely say...

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  • Alive in Christ

    Alive in Christ

    Submitted by Jason… For most of my life I’ve gone to church and professed to be Christian. As a child my Sunday school teachers taught about how Jesus died on the Cross for our sins and rose from the grave, and I accepted it without...

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  • A Living Transformation

    A Living Transformation

    Submitted by Yiyi… I grew up in a typical Asian family where I was told that I needed to work hard in school to get a well-paying job and live a comfortable life. My dad was a self made man who got his BS in...

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  • Found by God

    Found by God

    Submitted by Mike…Entering college I was a very firm naturalist. My father, being very well educated in natural sciences encouraged me towards learning more about the world around me and caused me to always take great interest in my science classes. As schools confidently taught...

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  • Eternally Loved

    Eternally Loved

    Submitted by Joan…I was raised as the only child in my family with great care and with all my parents’ hopes put on me. From a very young age, I had a very big ego and knew that my destiny was to work hard to...

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  • A Picture of Perseverence

    A Picture of Perseverence

    Submitted by Ulia…This past Sunday, we celebrated Grandma Bessie’s 101st birthday!  Despite her age and her weak body, she is amazingly cheerful and thankful, and she thanks God for sustaining her these many years. When I first began visiting Crown Bay at the beginning of summer,...

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  • Peace in All Things

    Peace in All Things

    Submitted by Grace… My sister and I spent about the past 6 weeks in Korea taking care of my mom fighting last stage of lung cancer. Through my time in Korea with my parents, I think God has taught me some lessons about what it...

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  • A New Sense of Community

    A New Sense of Community

    Submitted by Francisca… These past few days I meditated on what’s the most drastic way my life has changed because of God and it would be becoming part of His community.  Coming into college I was very withdrawn from the world, I was so used...

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  • No-brainer choice

    No-brainer choice

    Submitted by Bob… I cannot remember a time where I did not want, nor would not accept, Jesus Christ to be my savior. Thanks to the persistence of my grandmother, a devout Christian, I grew up in the church and learned everything and did everything...

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  • The secret to contentment

    The secret to contentment

    Submitted by Hui… I was born in China to a non-religious family with very loving parents. One of my earliest memories from childhood is this four-letter saying from my dad: “????”, which means that having a successful career is the most important thing in life....

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  • Nothing too big to give up

    Nothing too big to give up

    Submitted by Andrew… I grew up in a Christian household and have been attending church for as long as I could remember. From the time I was 3 we had people outside of the family living at our house for years at a time. Despite...

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  • Misinformed –> Informed

    Misinformed –> Informed

    Submitted by Samantha… I was born in Guangzhou, China as the only child to loving, atheist parents. My elementary and middle schools denounced superstition and celebrated naturalism, patriotism and communism. Therefore, I developed a firm impression that only illiterate fools could be superstitious enough to...

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  • The most wonderful thing

    The most wonderful thing

    Submitted by Olivia…  (Olivia is in the middle of the front row, with the yellow wrapped flowers) I was born in a very traditional family in Taiwan, and was very accustomed to burning incense to thank Buddha and ancestors for blessing us with peace and...

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  • Treasure in Heaven

    Treasure in Heaven

    Submitted by Joanna… I was born into a middle-class family. Although both of my parents worked and we had a steady income, my parents fought over money almost every day. At that time, I thought money was the only solution for my family problems. Actually,...

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  • Switched values

    Switched values

    Submitted by Dino… I went to church a few times while in elementary and junior high school; however, I wasn’t very familiar with the God that everybody knew or talked about. I did not know nor understand how a Christian ought to behave or the...

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  • Fear not

    Fear not

    Submitted by Vicky…  (Vicky is right in the middle, with the blue / purple wrapped flowers) I grew up in Taiwan and from an early age, I was used to burning incense on holidays and following various local customs.  I was not sure whether God...

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  • A rich life

    A rich life

    Submitted by Irene… (Irene is on the far left, Olivia is next to her, then Cynthia/Eugene) Ever since I was little, I thought that it was necessary for me to study hard and to find a good job in order for me to live a...

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  • Just as I am

    Just as I am

    Submitted by Steven… Growing up, I only knew of two things: to be successful in life and to find happiness. I believed that in order to get through life, we need to be “strong”: strong against the tragedies that happen in your life, strong against...

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  • True life in Christ

    True life in Christ

    Submitted by Tony… I was born into a Christian family. My grandmother, deep in her faith, led us all to church every Sunday. Both my parents were baptized in this church; My mother joined the choir and my father became the general affairs manager. So...

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  • Image is everything

    Image is everything

    Submitted by Kristen… From day one, my life was filled with godly people, prayers and love as I was born into the community of Gracepoint. For as long as I can remember, I always had people at my house at all odd hours of the...

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  • In the Father’s home

    In the Father’s home

    Submitted by Thanh… I used to be a very self-centered, bitter, lost boy who tried to be like everyone else at school. Like every other teenager, I pursued popularity, attention and approval among my peers. The desire to fit in was a burden to me,...

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  • Putting God back in the picture

    Putting God back in the picture

    Submitted by Tabby… Because both my parents were Christians before I was born, I started going to church ever since I was born. So I grew up learning all the stories in the Bible and who God, and I heard the story of the gospel...

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  • A bigger God

    A bigger God

    Submitted by Noah… I’ve believed in God my whole life.  From the moment I was conscious I was immersed in the church, and taught the message of the gospel.  I first “accepted Christ” in 4th grade at a Joyland retreat. That was the first time...

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  • Amazing grace

    Amazing grace

    Submitted by Stephen… All my life, I have grown up in the church, assuming the role of the good church kid, attending service every Sunday, and going to the occasional retreat or church outing. I heard the gospel often, and soon it became just another...

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