The following excerpt is from Storm Clouds of Blessing by Janice Cappucci and published by Christian Focus Publications, Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland (www.christianfocus.com) and is used with their kind permission. (You can learn more or purchase your own copy here.)
Growing up in China, Eric and Wendy Su knew what they were supposed to believe: There is no God. Religion is for the superstitious and uneducated. Missionaries are the tools of western imperialists. Whether these things were true or not, they couldn’t say, only that they knew no Christians and if anyone had ever described the miracles in the Bible, they surely would have considered them fairy tales.
Never did they imagine when they came to the U.S. to pursue their doctorate degrees that they would meet educated people who claimed that the death and resurrection of Jesus—and all the rest of it—were historical facts. More astonishingly, these otherwise clear-thinking people spoke openly about their beliefs. Eric and Wendy felt so conflicted; the families who had befriended them—their host family and later a neighbor—were so loving and yet, at the same time, seemingly oblivious to the Sus” total lack of interest in the subject. “I just wanted a friend,” Wendy said,
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