03.24.07

CCF Committee Election Statement & Testimony

Posted in CCF, CCF Committee at 8:59 pm by Bily Xiao

Testimony

My journey to God has been a long and continuing one. Of my background, to begin with, my family is not Christian–not one in the 5 or 6 family units that I know.

Born in 1986 in ShenZhen, China (right next HK), I moved with my mom to Vancouver as a “Made in China” export just before the age of 7. In China my dad was an officer in a governmental ministry and my mom was a marketing executive in an oil company. Things were smooth, but in moving to Canada we suffered from the sick currency exchange and a non-recognition of work experience. Because of this, dad worked manual labour jobs to get us by while mom learned English and accounting.

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03.12.07

Unwelcomed

Posted in CCF at 12:28 pm by Bily Xiao

Went to this church in Oshawa for the second time this term yesterday. As with the first time, I felt almost entirely unwelcomed by my college peers there–only the sunday school teacher (who’s a pastor actually) welcomed me. Neither upon my entrance nor during the “loiter” time after sunday school did anyone approach me or greet me at all. Not the slightest head nod nor eye contact. I sat waiting a bit to see what would happen; I was even sitting right beside some ppl and looked in their direction, hoping they’d bring me into the talk. Nope.

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