Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
A Church That Does Not Welcome Members Of Other Churches
When people visit our church, I usually write them a personal letter to welcome them. I also include a questionnaire asking them about their first impressions of our church, things that appealed to them, and things that they felt needed to be improved. Recently, a visitor who had just moved here from out of state responded to the questionnaire with the following comments: "I read two of your books about the house church and I visited with high expectations. But when we came, nobody welcomed or guided us. It seemed that the church was already too full and only those ...
We Will Not Buy that Land
For the past several months, we as a congregation have been seeking God about the piece of property on Brittmore Rd. and Hammerly Blvd. to see if He would have us move there to reach out to more people. The land is 20.6 acres, and it is in the 100-year flood zone, which means there is a possibility that it could flood once every 100 years. The record shows that it has never flooded before. The negotiated price for the land was $1,125,000, and we were going to purchase the land together with our Korean congregation paying 50/50. We also decided to do the engineering ...
Decision To Not Purchase The Land
As our prayer partners have already been made aware through the 333 prayer request, we had planned to purchase 20 acres of land for our church near Hammerly Road and Beltway 8. Here's an update on those plans.
Based on the Long-term Expansion Committee's projected figures, we will double our Sunday attendance within the next five years. Practically, it will be impossible to accommodate this many people at our existing facilities. One possible solution is expanding by purchasing the lot north of us. The drawback to this is that, if the projections hold, within ten years ...
How to Forgive
The people that need our forgiveness the most are often our own family members. Families are communities bound by blood relationships. Love runs deep. But just as familial ties make love strong, they also make it easy to hurt one another. In fact, many children live with emotional pain and scars they received from their parents. And their parents often don't even realize that they caused such pain.
Emotional healing occurs when parents ask for forgiveness from their children. But this is not easy to do. It is especially difficult in Asian families where parental author...
The 333 Prayer Request For 2003
I want to sincerely thank the "333 Prayer Partners" who prayed during the past year. These are people who committed to praying for a particular request 3 times a day, 33 seconds each time, for a full year.
The prayer request for 2002 was: "Pray that Pastor Chai may feel the pain of those who are suffering and that each House Church may bear fruit in winning souls." It's clear that our prayers for the House Churches have been answered. The 163 people we baptized last year are proof of that. It's a little more difficult to assess the prayers for myself, but I do believe ...
Why did you cry during worship service?
My younger brother was visiting me in Houston for the first time from Washington state and he asked me this after attending our worship service. He was surprised to see his older brother, a grown man, shamelessly crying in public at the podium.
As a matter of fact, I frequently cry; not only during worship but even when I'm completely alone. When I feel the presence and the love of God in a deep, real way, I often shed tears.
I lost my parents when I was 7 years old. So for most of my life I had a strong longing deep inside for a father. A father who would be there to ...
Monday Morning Men’s Prayer Meeting
We had our first Monday Morning Men's Prayer Meeting this past Monday at 6AM in the Trailer House. Amazingly, there were twenty men who came to pray before they went to work. Some came from not too far away places but there were guys who came all the way from Missouri City, Sugar Land and Pearland. I just cannot express in words how I felt about the first prayer meeting. It was like fresh wind after a long drought, like fresh breath of the Spirit of God. Truly awesome!
About three and a half years ago I saw a vision during our Sunday morning intercessory prayer meeting. ...