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| My parents are both from China but my father grew up in Hong Kong and my mother in Taiwan. Both of them come from Christian families, and after they separately immigrated to the United States for school, they ended up meeting each other at a fellowship at Yale University. They were married and moved to a suburb outside of Boston, Massachusetts, where they raised me and my younger sister. My father was working as a radiation oncologist and my mother was doing missile defense type of research and development.
From birth I attended the Chinese Bible Church of Greater Boston, at that time in Woburn, but now in Lexington, Massachusetts. I grew up regularly going to Sunday school and worship, and was generally a normal and good church kid. One night at an evangelical meeting for the children, when I was about eight years old, I declared that I wanted Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Savior as Jay Lam led an altar call.
As a quiet and shy junior high youth, my youth director, Sandy Liu, encouraged me to be more involved with church and to even go on a mission trip. Through that experience I began to consider my faith and church life more seriously and into high school I joined with two other friends into a discipleship group led by a youth counselor, Albert Ting. The more I grew, I began to realize the full weight of my commitment to Christ on all of what my life was supposed to be. I learned that being a Christian meant giving over everything of who I am to God, and I started to do this. I was baptized with my two friends, Tim and Alan, and we continued to grow and encourage each other to fully dedicate every part of our lives over to Christ. We got involved with student leadership, praise team, serving the church and community, and doing evangelism on our own. | | | |
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