Connecting with God Archive

  • My Trip to Honduras

    My Trip to Honduras

    Submitted by Gordon…   I will be praying for Gracepoint Berkeley’s Honduras Mission Team as they leave this month. Where can I even begin to describe all that I’ve experienced and felt through a mere one week mission trip to Honduras. What God has allowed me...

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  • Roy’s story

    Roy’s story

    I celebrated my first American Christmas in Houston, Texas in the winter of 1992, mere weeks after first setting foot in this strange and seemingly unreceptive land. As a ten-year-old FOB, I would spend the next four years in what I, at the time, would...

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  • Suzanne’s story

    Suzanne’s story

    When I think about the fact that I’m saved, it never ceases to amaze me what a miracle this is. As I look back on so many of the circumstances and people God has used in my life to show me his love for me,...

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  • Blessing through pain

    Blessing through pain

    Submitted by Sarah…    The past four years or so with my chronic hand condition (repetitive stress injury) has taught me a lot and I feel that it has been a real growing experience. My hand problems started back in the late 90s but weren’t so...

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  • Fasting is not my thing

    Fasting is not my thing

    Submitted by James….    Fasting has never been my thing. In fact, I have never fasted before, and the last thing I would plan to do is to give up food for any purpose. Food is simply too important to me. I understood the tragedy of...

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  • First Sunday

    First Sunday

    Yesterday was a full day wasn’t it?  So busy!  First home worship services for 18 groups, the smallest being about 10 and the largest about 50.  Wow! Because our home services didn’t start until 1pm, Helen and I met with a World Vision representative in...

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  • God makes all things grow

    God makes all things grow

    Submitted by Esther…    I’m thankful to witness God at work in the lives of our seniors.  It amazes me how God changes people within four years.  It’s amazing to see the changes through the years.  It’s amazing that though these seniors were once strangers to...

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  • Steve now and then

    Steve now and then

    Steve’s story…    My mother made the decision to immigrate out to America with me and my older sister, leaving behind my older brother with my father in the beginning of 1979.  She gladly left behind the fast paced life of late night parties with people...

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  • No longer a lone-ranger

    No longer a lone-ranger

    Daniel’s story…    I was born in 1972 in South Korea.  Although my grandfather is a minister, my parents were not Christians – mere reluctant church-goers, and they made it clear that they were merely that; as a result, I had a paradoxical life of growing...

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  • Divine Purpose

    Divine Purpose

    Emily’s story… In my 7th grade journal for English class, I wrote that in the year 2000, I would be living on my own in a cool, artsy loft in New York. I detailed the kind of cultured and carefree life I saw as having...

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