Twenty one years ago I became a Christian. I wasn’t born into a family that embraced Christianity. In fact, our elders practiced ancestral worship and visited Chinese temples to pray on festival days. From a young age, I followed my maternal grandmother whenever she went to the temple to pray. She taught my siblings and I how to pray and what to say in our prayers during ancestral worship at home. Ancestral worship was a way of life for us. As we grew up, one of my sisters was introduced to a friend whose family encouraged her to attend church services and soon after, she became a Christian. Then two other siblings also got baptized. My late mother became a Catholic when she was in her late sixties, a long-cherished wish of hers, after my father gave his permission for her to do so.She taught me to say “Hail Mary” and to pray from young. Her faith was very strong. However, I continued to practice ancestral worship as did my brothers. How then did I become a Christian? When my mother and my two Christian sisters were suddenly stricken with deadly cancers, it dawned upon me that their Christian God, […]