Washington Business and Technology Institute - PPAA16 (Pan Pacific and Asian American Forum)

Newsbrief ***** 14:37 p. m. Thursday, December 25, 2003 ***** # First Edition
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my friends!
By Mike Lei*
Jesus in Las Vegas
Coming back home to Las Vegas from Dallas this year has been a very meaningful time. I spend much of the time with my parents, encouraging them in the Christian faith. I also went to my mom's church and saw their Christmas play. It's great to see the people who acted in the play actually have real life testimony. One girl was healed of a lung tumor disease. Another actor also had a testimony of God's healing for an illness. The pastor there also shared about the fulfillment of a dream - to have a prayer mountain over Las Vegas. They will have a 24 hour prayer center to pray over Las Vegas. Las Vegas is not abandoned by God. I believe this is actually a place with much grace from the Lord. The bibles says, "But where sin increased, grace increase all the more, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."(Romans 5:20b-21). The people here has experienced the power of God over sin and death. One time, a youth pastor came and told us that we should not feel bad to be in Las Vegas. Even the town Jesus grew but in was known as a bad town where there are a lot of sins because it was occupied by the Roman soldiers. That's why one of the disciples (before he became one) doubt about Jesus because of the town he came from. "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" (John 1:46). For me personally, I did not believe for 20 years until I came to this desert place - Las Vegas. I am proud I came to know Christ here because this is an unlikely place to be "spiritual". But, I know this is actually a good place to know God. You can see the contrast between the things of the world and the things from God. When people see the things here they know they need forgiveness from God.
One of the things I did this year was to go on the strip and hand out the Gospel of John with a tract to the people who were passing out cards and pamphlets to the tourists. Usually, I would walk far away from these people and look at them with disgust because of the pictures they are handing out. But this year, I feel a compassion for these people. I handed out one book to a young boy and he accepted it. Then, I saw a couple handing out the pictures, and I gave a book to the wife. She thanked me and I said "God bless you" in Spanish. It's something I learned on mission trips to Reynosa, Mexico. Another lady I gave the Gospel of John looked really grateful to me and thanked me. I feel so happy to spread the good news to these people. We are all sinners. Some of us have it better in terms of our social status. We don't have to do those shameful things. But, sin is in the hearts of the rich as well as the poor. No one can say they have not sinned. Actually, if I say I am better than another person, I've already sinned because it showed my arrogance.
I prayed to bless everyone I see as I'm walking on the strip. I did this because I heard from the sunday sermon about the unlimited blessing from God that we can give to others. The pastor encouraged us to bless everyone as much as possible. So, I did that as I was walking on the strip to everyone- small, big, Asian, Middle-eastern, Indian, Caucasian, etc... We can bless everyone. There's unlimited blessings from God we can give to others. I don't have to be afraid others are getting blessed because God's blessings are unlimited. It's not if other's get blessings, then you won't be able to get it. Like a pie that everyone has to share.
For Christmas eve, I went with mom and dad to the Living Word Chinese Church. This is where we got started to be Christians. It's good to see so many new faces. This means the gospel is reaching many new people. It's good to see the new sanctuary, which let people have a better place to worship. The message is about the gifts we can give to Christ. But first, we must understand the gifts God gives us through Christ. These gifts are righteousness, eternal life, and the Holy Spirit. All these are free to receive for anyone who would believe Jesus died on the cross for their sins and rose again and is willing to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Later, the Chinese pastor lead us in a song. The main words are "Come home, come home, to God's house." I believe this is the cry of everyone who knows the gift of God. We want everyone to come home to God's house. We can give the gift to others by telling them how they can come home to God's house through Christ.
Lastly, I was able to catch a wedding. This is a special blessing from God because these two people were from my youth group years ago and they were married. But, they were divorced 1 year later . I was not expecting God to answer my prayers for them to get back together. I thought this was impossible. However, both walked into the youth group meeting and I was just shocked. The guy told me that he has came back to church and started to serve again. I can see God really brought him back. The girl was so happy. I had the priviledge to attend their wedding reception and it was just a joyful time. I know God can do the impossible- not just raising the dead- but restoring broken relationships which human efforts cannot mend.
If you still are struggling in life, I would suggest you come home to Christ. Accept Him as your Savior. Ask Him to come into your life to be your Lord so He can lead you. Ask Him to forgive you of all your sins. Turn from living life your way to start to follow God. He will give you the Holy Spirit to help you. Accept this gift of eternal life so you can be with God forever in heaven. It's a free gift, but had a costly price. This gift was purchased by the blood of Christ on the cross for the forgiveness of sins.
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*About the author
Mike serves as a youth deacon at Carrollton Chinese Church. He like to play tennis and jogging. He has been an engineer for 6 years. He currently works at Fujitsu Microelectronics America. He has submitted 6 patents dealing with forward error correction circuits while at Alcatel Telecom. You can reach him at mlei@fma.fujitsu.com.

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