It wasn’t only Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and
Salome who got up very early one Sunday morning looking for Jesus.
Easter morning a few weeks ago, a young couple from Tianjin
came to Beijing Baptist Church. What a delight to meet Stefan & Carisha
from South Africa. As we got to know them more over lunch, among the laughter
and tears, they told us their story.
After living together for several years as non-Christians,
they broke off their relationship and went their own ways.
Eventually, they both came to know the Lord separately around Eastertime 2018
and later realized they really loved each other and wanted to be together. They
married in the Lord November 2018 and moved to China a few weeks later.
We met them after they had lived in Tianjin for about four
months but had become spiritually dry for lack of Christian teaching and
fellowship. Because they so hungered for biblical teaching and hadn’t yet found
a church close to them, they searched the internet for a church in Beijing and
found Beijing Baptist Church. So on Easter morning, like the women on the very
first Resurrection Day, they woke up early “towards dawn of the first day of
the week” and left Tianjin (5:30am) to travel via bus, subway, fast train, and another
subway to Beijing Baptist Church. They arrived at BBC at 9:30am, in time for
some pre-service coffee and fellowship. They soaked in the teaching and fellowship
at BBC that Easter Sunday and we have stayed in touch since then.
Like so many people seeking job opportunities in China, they
teach English but discovered their recruiting agency and school not as
scrupulous as originally presented. Having experienced so many new things in
the last year, they are learning how to walk with Christ and apply His Word to
their life, work, and marriage.
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