Where two or three are gathered

I'd been hoping to find a worship community, both because I'd been feeling lonely and I'd been missing my home church, Cherokee United Methodist in Johnson City. On Sunday, one of my fellow teachers, a lady from New Zealand who's been here several years, invited me to the house church she attends. Call it an answered prayer. We read the Bible, prayed,sang, had a discussion, ate a light breakfast. We we're a multi-national group-- from China, Canada, the U.S., New Zealand, Australia. We are also theologically diverse. While a few of us are from middle of Most of the regulars are evangelical fundametntalists, and I think it's obvious that I'm a dyed-in-the wool liberal. Back home, I'm sorry to say, we would not be worshipping together. But here in China, it doesn't matter. We are strangers in a strange land, bound together by a tradition we understand in differnt ways. And we form a faith community.