Morning Feast
One morning last November, in a hotel room of Chicago, where I was staying for a Christian conference, I woke up, surprisingly, to some alluring scents of Chinese food. When I opened my eyes to search for the source, I saw my roommate Wudi eating at a table to the right of the TV, under […]
When darkness falls
This post today speaks something really personal to me. It’s about the darkness in Christian life, something that wasn’t clear to me when I first accepted Christ as my savior. Christian life isn’t without its struggles, that I knew. But darkness? I couldn’t associate them with the image of a Christian, who’s been fully and […]
In the eye of the storn
We live in a real and material world, where we face our everyday battles and struggles: bills to pay, relationships, work, etc. Sometimes things work, sometimes they don’t. Frustration arises and we realize we are not in control of what others do or think. We start to focus on who is responsible for things not […]
Next step of faith
Christians often talk about the importance of spending time both with believers for fellowship and non-believers for outreach. Currently I spend lots of time with both believers and non-believers, but I have started to realize that my time with non-believers did not so much serve the purpose of outreach as simply having a good time […]
To be a cross-cultural servant
I am now reading Cross-Cultural Servanthood, and I got to know an awesome way to equip me to be a better cross-cultural servant, that is start with the end and work toward the beginning. In order to serve people, we need to understand them. To understand them, we need to learn more about their culture. […]
The multiplication of dumplings and tea eggs
The multiplication of dumplings and tea eggs Has it ever happened to you to pray with all your strength for something and remain amazed when you receive what you have asked for? That’s exactly what happened to me last week during the Lunar New Year organized by IFI. As the Event Coordinator, I had the […]
To 2017: more of You and less of me
King of the World – Natalie Grant I wish 2016 could’ve had an easier ending. It didn’t. Instead, so much has happened in the last month that I’ve struggled to put everything into words. How could I accurately describe it to you, except that it was a pretty wild ride?————————————————————————–As I’m half way done with […]
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One day in November, my host housemate Bruce and I went to throw away a used toilet into a neighborhood dumpster. The toilet was so heavy that we did not have a firm grip of it after we lifted it up above the edge of the dumpster. As the toilet tilted, rain water that had […]
God Controls
God controls I was really stressed out recently since I have been studying very hard on my English tests, thus I was not very willing when I was challenged to follow up several wives and meet them in person who went to the hocking hills trip. It is so challenging to me to meet them […]
The meaning of Christmas
In Italy, the Country I am from, when someone mentions Christmas the first image that comes to mind is a little baby in a manger, surrounded by Mary, Joseph, an ox, and a donkey. Then, you will start thinking of a man dressed in red with a white beard and you will immediately freak out […]