By Angus Wu

In the process of growing up, a person’s experience shapes how he/she sees the world, whether or not you are you being cared for, if you feel insecure about yourself, if there is a role model to look up to so that you are sure you are doing the right thing. When problems arise in life, you gather material to solve them and it is like building a house. The confidence of the house would be easily shaken if there is a small difference from the blueprint. If it doesn’t get dealt with, it accumulates and could lead to a total collapse. Through his Holy Spirit at Pastoral Care School (PCS), He healed bits and pieces that my house missed and made me more of a whole person. Read more →

by Timothy Ko

I remember the first time God put missions in my heart…it was my Junior year of High School, I was sitting in Chapel and It was during a Missions Conference where Dr. David Thompson came to speak and I remember his wife was speaking to all the youth about their lives in missions. It was at that moment where I first became interested in using my career for missions. I remember as my Dad was driving me home, I was telling him about how interesting I thought their lives were and at the end, I said “I think I might be interested in that.” My Dad was supportive of me but as I look back upon that time, I wonder why I was so hesitant to say that I was interested in long term missions. After all, my parents never dissuaded me from missions. Read more →

By Andi Kuo

Our Taiwan Short Term Missions team had 6 members this time. We saw the work of the Holy Spirit. When God’s children prayed in unity, miracles happened, glorifying God. Every morning, before we set out, we prayed with the Word of the day, asking the Holy Spirit to guide us.

On the 1st day, we arrived in Yilan, Taipei. As soon as we met Soo and Hannah Hwang, the Korean speaking Alliance missionaries, Soo told us that he received a Word from God recently, that was from Psalm 106:8, where it said, “Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, to make his mighty power known.” And then, we had the first gathering at a restaurant; we called it “The Lord’s Feast.” Although there was a lot of unknown, we held on by faith. The people who came were people with physical challenges. One of them was the father of one of my preschool staff. Before we left for Taiwan, we had asked this pre-school teacher if she wanted us to see her parents, but she turned it down. As soon as we recognized the father, Mr. Lo, it seemed like we saw the glory of God. He was doing His wonders, making His mighty power known! After lunch, Mr. Lo invited us to his home. Soo remembered that he had been praying for this village for a while, and he believed that God would make His mighty power known in this place. I personally also believe that the parents of my preschool teacher will soon be saved. Read more →

By H. Leung
(A mini-series on my journey of starting a bible study group at work)

A week after our divine encounter on the escalators where I asked the “Simple Question”, we were supposed to have our inaugural meeting.  I got to work and saw the email, “Sorry guys, I’m sick today and won’t make it to our meeting.” Of all the days to get sick?? Hrmm…. Read more →

By Derrick Duong

Leading our brothers & sisters from the Mandarin Congregation to pray for the 9/8 Evangelistic Meeting, I was in awe to witness how God’s Hand moved us to pray. God granted Elder Mike Chang and his wife, Julie, a piece of His Heart to love lost souls. Looking back at how God miraculously led him and his company (Alpha and Omega Semiconductor) to go through the ups and downs, Mike couldn’t help but to declare God’s goodness. Thus, an Evangelistic Meeting took place on 9/8 to give glory to Him.

It was that piece of God’s heart that joined the entire Mandarin Congregation together to confess, repent and cry out to God for greater faith and strength. It took 32 days of unceasing prayer amongst which 4 targeted prayer meetings were held at church. We received extraordinary faith and unprecedented joy while each and everyone of us was declaring and making our commitment to God to reach out, invite, intercede and offer help in any capacity. As a result, 150 new friends showed up, and 10+ answered the call for salvation!

It takes just one humble person who submits to the will of God, and then God’s hand moves the entire congregation to pray in unison, and only then, our prayers move God’s hand!