The IV Connection

So, you may ask yourself why do Mark and Jackie go to a Chinese Christian Church.

Self: Are they Chinese?
Answer: No

Self: Do they want to be Chinese?
Answer: Not particularly

Self: Do they speak Chinese, or do they want to learn?
Answer: No, maybe some day but probably not


So, as most interesting stories do, not that this is an interesting story, it starts in college.

Both Jackie and I were a part of a Christina organization called InterVarsity Christian Fellowship while attending the University of Michigan-Dearborn. When Jackie found out that she was going to be coming to IL to go to graduate school at the Chicago Medical School our regional IVCF staff worker, Ann Beyerline, told Jackie she had the contact info of a Dr. Jennie Hsieh, who had graduated from CMS and is a Doctor in the Chicago area. Ann knew Dr. Hsieh from her days of being a staff worker at Northwestern University.

So, before Jackie moved out to IL she contacted Dr. Hsieh to find out more about CMS and get an idea about the area. Jackie asked Dr. Hsieh if she knew of any churches near the CMS and Dr. Hsieh told Jackie of a few churches in the area and one called North Shore Chinese Christian Church that Dr. Hsieh currently attends and attended while going to medical school at CMS.

So since Jackie wanted to thank Dr. Hsieh in person for her helpfulness she decided to go to NSCCC once and say thank you before checking out other churches in the greater North Shore region. Although the people at NSCCC were nice, Jackie decided that she would continue her search for a church to attend while at CMS. The next week she went to another more well known big church in the area, no not that one that rhymes with pillow, but in retrospect really felt more welcomed at the church were almost everyone was different then her, so for week three she thought she’d give that Chinese Church another visit and hasn’t gone any were else since.