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With Ms. Wei's help, we now have the updated Fall'08 Student's Schedule page link that you see on the right. You need to click it and open it as a Microsoft Excel software. Hope you all can access it without a problem.
Please note that this schedule will likely be updated from time to time. So please come back to it often and check for any changes.
Also, this blog page is dedicated for you all. You are welcome to post things on it when you see something that is of value which may edify others faith in Christ and glorify God. Please be mindful that this blog could be viewed by many worldwide who we do not know.
Thank you and appreciate ya'll,
Uncle Paul
With Ms. Wei's help, we now have the updated Fall'08 Student's Schedule page link that you see on the right. You need to click it and open it as a Microsoft Excel software. Hope you all can access it without a problem.
Please note that this schedule will likely be updated from time to time. So please come back to it often and check for any changes.
Also, this blog page is dedicated for you all. You are welcome to post things on it when you see something that is of value which may edify others faith in Christ and glorify God. Please be mindful that this blog could be viewed by many worldwide who we do not know.
Thank you and appreciate ya'll,
Uncle Paul
When I was younger, I used to wonder what my purpose in life was. My only goals were to get good grades and make my parents happy. There was always something that I felt was missing in my life but I could never figure out what it was.
In 2002 we moved to Canyon Creek. A year after we had settled in our new house, the local church presented its grand opening. My brother wanted to go and persuaded me to come along. Soon we were both attending the church regularly. At first, it was hard for me, to adjust to the new environment, go to a new school, and make new friends. But I adapted; and now looking back, it was all part of God’s big plan to begin with. This was the beginning of a major change God was about to provide in my life.
Going to church and learning about God was like pulling off a blindfold and opening my eyes for the first time. I started to see the wonders of the world through God’s perspective and not my own. Life suddenly seemed newer and brighter to me. In a way, I felt like I had become a new person just by learning about HIM and HIS WORD.
In 2003 I watched my brother become a Christian first and get baptized and I noticed some evident changes in him. He started to volunteer at church to help out for more activities. He argued less and seemed to radiate with happiness. I was confused. What had caused this major change in his life? What drove him to live with such a servant’s heart? There could only be one answer. God. I was hungry for more knowledge. So I prayed for God to help me understand, and he answered my prayers. One night my brother brought me a videotape. It was about the life of Jesus. I had learned about Jesus at church before, but actually watching Jesus die on the cross for our sins helped me understand God’s love and passion to a greater extent. It really touched my heart. And at the end of the movie I prayed and asked for God’s forgiveness. That night after praying I had chosen become a Christian.
My life wasn’t dramatically altered as I thought it would have been. No, life was the same as always, it was just me that had changed. My parents saw it too, soon after I had announced my step towards Christianity. I decided not to live for myself anymore, but for God instead. The void in my life, which I had once felt when I was younger, was filled.
When I watched my parents come to church and become Christians and get baptized, I couldn’t have been happier. God used my brother and I to encourage my parents to become Christians as well when they saw us live for God.
So today is a special day. It is my brother’s biological birthday, but my spiritual birthday as well. Today doesn’t just mark the anniversary of my brother’s birth, but it symbolizes my rebirth too.
My brother had opened the door, and became a Christian and gotten baptized first, my parents soon followed, and today I am happy to say that I will complete this cycle with my family as I hope to do for others as well.
Hi, I’m Samuel H Zhang, age 9 and a half. I’m the kid of Pastor Zhang. Today I’m going to get baptized and I’ll tell you why.
When I went to China in Feb. 2007, I went to my great-grandmother’s grave. Although I’ve never seen her, I saw a picture of her on the grave. My dad started praying. I was touched by my dad’s prayer. Later, I told my dad, “I want to cry” Then my dad asked, “Do you want to believe in God?” I said sorrowly, “yes!”. My dad’s prayer for me was to confess my sins, to do everything in God’s ways, following God’s law. Now, I was crying even more.
I prayed that prayer because I think, “If there was a God that sacrificed so much that I would have to love him with all my heart, soul and strength.”
I am going to get baptized. Baptism is a ceremony to let everyone know that I am a Christian! It doesn’t make you a better Christian. I’ll live a new life after I’m baptized. I also trust that God died for my sins!
The first time I went to church was when I was five, in Tucson, Arizona. It was a small church that my mom had found out through a group of friends. Back then I just came from China, and I didn’t even know anything about God, or even English. In that church, they taught us many things, but mainly basic facts and bible stories. Compared to other kids in that church, I was not well-behaved and I was very conceited, and it definitely showed through my actions. As I grew up in Arizona, I wasn’t okay with who I was, and it felt as if I always wanted to be someone else. Even at a young age, I was angry at the world, mostly because I felt pressured by my parents to be like the other kids. The problem that I had was that I felt shamed, ashamed of myself, and I didn’t know how to talk to God.
When I was 8, I moved to Texas and started going to ACC. There I met April and Joanna. At ACC, I went to Sunday school regularly and was very content. I learned biblical things, but I didn’t know how to connect with God, and I didn’t know how to have faith in him. I wanted to believe that God existed, but I didn’t know if he was there. When I got to middle school, I started getting separated from Jesus and I got caught up in what I wanted, and I was extremely rebellious. I didn’t listen to my parents, and I wanted things that I couldn’t have.
It seemed that I grew farther and farther apart from God, and I had so many questions that it seemed like no one could answer for me. They were questions about life and death, and other religions and animals and heaven. I argued with many people about my uncertainty. I wasn’t sure about God, so asking people was the only thing I had in mind. I was really struggling, and it felt like I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t fit in at ACC, I also didn’t do well in school, where I kept making the same mistakes over and over again, not knowing how to stop. One day, however, my parents made me to another church for a onetime thing, and I told them I absolutely didn’t want to go, but they still forced me to.
As it turned out, at that program, there was an international pastor that was there, giving a sermon. Through this sermon, I learned a lot. I learned that God is powerful, and he has a plan for everyone and how to have faith in him. When I went home that day, for the first time, in a long time, I prayed to God. I asked him for me to find him. I asked him to give me answers. I asked him to give me patience, to give me courage. And I didn’t have all of those things overnight, but I was a lot happier.
Over the next two years, I tripped and I fell, I still made some of the same mistakes, but God was always there to help me, and putting my trust in him was the best thing I’ve ever done. I didn’t fight as much with my parents anymore, well, I still do, but, it’s gotten better. When we moved to RCCA this fall, I was reticent about it and didn’t want to go at first, but now that I’ve come here, my faith has grown stronger. I decided not to argue any more, and just from now on, to listen, and to seek the truth. Because I realized that God really never left me, and he loves me just the way I am, always welcoming me with wide open arms. I always thought that it was me that we supposed to find God, but actually, he found me.
