Our History

Walk by faith, not by sight - The most essential thing in the proposal was the projected schedule for the new church to become financially independent. Since we are a nondenominational church, we wanted to minimize the financially burden to the mother church. Hence, the proposal was such: For the first year, the mother church would fund 60% of our expenses, we would pay the 40%. The second year, 20% paid by the mother church and 80% by us. The third year, we would carry 100%. The proposal was quickly approved. But after the meeting, one of the elder, Elder Sam Wei, stopped me and said, “Hanchi, your plan is too ambitious, what if you cannot meet your needs at the end of the second year? It will be embarrassing to come back and ask for more.” I replied, “This is because we don’t want to place too much burden on our mother church. I am sure the Lord is very pleased with our intention and your concern and I am confident that He will accomplish this.” By the grace of God, we not only met our needs but had surplus at the end of the second year.

God’s work, God provides - Since then, we established a church policy toward year end surplus: Each year our surplus will be funneled into four funds: 1) Mission, 2) Church Building Project, 3) Good Samaritan Fund (benevolence fund), and 4) Leadership Enhancement Fund. They come from church general fund and they are irreversible. Thanks be to the Lord, for twenty-six years now, we never came short. The Lord provides. After our proposal was approved, each Sunday after worship service, we would gather in the upper room of the Education Building and got down on our knees to pray for our project. When we were down on our knees, our perspective changed to totally rely on God for His guidance and provision. After our prayers, we would check our progress and identify any action items. This continued until the day we were sent off by the mother church.