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

On an unassuming morning, I rode up the escalators with a co-worker that was in my BSF group 10 years ago. We engaged in typical workplace water-cooler small talk which I dread. For some reason, the escalator seemingly climbed slower than normal that morning. We simply couldn’t avoid the conversation about going back to BSF (1).  Then we complained about the Bay Area traffic coming into work – and my friend listens to a podcast about apologetics (2) and listens to K-love (3). I notice a Mt. Hermon lanyard around his neck (4) and we go off about our latest experience with our retreats, retreats, and retreats (5). We commiserate into our challenge with balancing technology in our family’s lives which led to the discussion about the book, “The Techwise Family” (6).  We discussed how the rat race in the Silicon Valley is driving people out of the Bay Area…yet this place has a plethora of the unreached (7).  

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven……there were more.  But in a casual conversation that one can have with anyone at work… the hints were all there.  So before ending the conversation, I took that extra step and asked a simple question….

Me: “Y’know… Have you ever thought of starting a bible study at work?”

Him: “Y’know… I’ve recently been also thinking about that.”

And there it was…. the first step in our journey of a thousand miles.  That first step… was prompted by a simple question. One simple question is all it takes….

Lesson #1: Have you asked YOUR simple question yet?

by Betty Young

“Others are like the seed planted in the good ground. They hear the teaching and accept it. Then they grow and produce fruit—sometimes thirty times more, sometimes sixty times more, and sometimes a hundred times more.” ~~Mark 4:20

Their story is like so many other stories. It is a story about an immigrant family travelling to the United States from an obscure village near Fuzhou, China. They came with nothing but a willingness to work hard. They didn’t come for themselves. They came for the sake of their children’s future. 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!

By Jonathan C.

I did not have much anticipation for the Levites School because I had just come back from the Mexicali short term missions trip. Mexicali was a tiring week and I wanted to rest. I was also trying to spend as much time as I could with Josh Fong before he went back to Hong Kong. I felt bad that I was leaving him during his vacation. But I had already committed to the Levites School, so I still went.

I remember the past children’s Levites School that I went to and how it was mainly focused on songwriting and music. I thought this one would be similar, but it was not. There was more talk about the spiritual nature of worship. From that last Levites School to this one, I have matured greatly, in age and spiritually. I was able to grasp what I really wanted for myself and listened a lot more intensely. Read more →

By Jemine P.

Wow! I don’t even know how to being! These past five days has been so so full of teachings and prayer and worship and the Holy Spirit! I have really begun my relationship with God this week! It was as if for the last 16 years of my life, I have tried to live my life for my idols of media, videos, movies, and also tried to live my life for God at the same time. How foolish and sinful of me! I finally realize the power of renouncing evil spirits, lies, fears of the enemy, and my sins! I took the freedom in worship workshop with Angus and Uncle Rocky, and it was through Rocky’s genuine love and joy of being a free child of God that I discovered God’s might, his glory and power, the true power and depth of love of Jesus dying on the cross, the desire and to have constant dialogue with the Holy Spirit humility and the truth behind having freedom. Read more →