church hunting :)
December 25, 2002
in my church hunt... i've come to the realization that i want to make a return to the asian community..or at least more of an asian community... if i ever get married and have kids.. i'd want them to be surrounded with asian kids... not ONLY asian kids.. it'd be my dream to be in a multi-cultural place.... but i'd rather them be surrounded with people of their own culture.. UAC is a great church, but it's predominantly caucasian so i dunno... i might still check out their sunday night service since it's a student run deal so it might be different?
but i was thinking.. if i went to a place like ETCBC.. i already have a lot of friends there.. and since i know tim, i could have a lot of freedom to serve in ministry there.. so it might be a pretty good fit...? good speakers.. i have the options of serving... and i know people there.. of course i was thinking that all the uni students that are my friends from ETCBC are all out of towners.. so i would probably feel awkward being there for a while.. everytime i hang out w/ the ETCBC people, i never talk to those other uni students... but that could change.. whatever! :) if i do go to ETCBC.. i have to talk to joanne about it. cuz she's still got a real strong heart for MCBC...
maybe there's some other good asian churches with a lot of uni students.. i know rh3c has a lot of local students.. *i think*... and i was very impressed w/ the whole 24/7 thing because ben and jon got so much support from their pastor and stuff.. but i'm not too particularly inclined to go there.. :) it's not because i have anything against the church... i just have my own reservations about it... i think above all, i'm really looking for a place where i can find some solid community.. because i've been lacking it for so very long.... teaching is still important to me, but community is the highest priority on my agenda list.. so wherever that is.. that's where i want to go :)
i've been going to APC for about a month now.. i don't know anyone.. so i just go for service and head home.. that's basically it.. no interaction with other people.. it's the same deal as watching 7:22! :) at least in my opinion... i've only been going there because i need to go somewhere for service.. it's just bad news if i stop going altogether! that's big problems :P
on monday, i went on a sandwich run with some people mainly from rh3c and rhcbc.. i went because ben told me about it and i thought it would be a great thing to participate since it's reaching out to the homeless and what have you.. i knew that i'd feel awkward the moment i got there since i don't know anyone.. and guess what? i felt awkward.. it seems like that's a big part of my life now.. feeling like an outsider... boooooooo! but whatever. it's not like i went there to talk to people... we arrived in downtown about 3 or so.. and we broke off into groups... my group didn't really meet a lot of homeless people.. we were in a pretty ritzy area.. we didn't really talk much to those people that we met along the way... just a brief exchange... maybe we should have said more.. next time perhaps.. i think other groups would ask if they believed in God or something like that... *shrugs*
anyway.. at the end of it.. i started talking to casey.. he's a guy that i met a while back.. from the TC planning committee.. never really talked w/ him before.. but we talked for a bit and it was quite interesting.. i found out that him, syd and vinci do sandwich runs EVERY week!! isn't that nuts? that's such an awesome thing.. i was pretty impressed :) that's like hardcore man.. really impressive stuff... and he told me he's going into seminary when he's done his schooling at UT... so i was like whoa.. that's like what me and jer and justin are going to be doing... :) then i started thinking about maybe checking out RHCBC.. cuz.. i know several people there.. olive, joyce, vinci, casey, steve... well i don't know a lot but whatever.. and like olive, joyce and casey are local uni students.. and they're all very cool people :) so maybe i could find some community there? maybe i'll go check it out in january when i can check out churches again :)
Posted by Leo Chan at December 25, 2002 12:45 AM
