Interview Pastor Dan for ICS 20

Interview Pastor Dan (Intercultural Studies)

This quarter I take two Intercultural Studies that one of assignment is to find someone who is immigrant and cultural and background is similar to me. The first person jump into my mind is Pastor Dan.

Introduction:
My subject is my Pastor, Daniel Cheng who has Taiwanese background is immigrant to United State when he was teenager. Later on, for God’s sake, he went back Taiwan to finish School of China Evangelical School in Taipei, Taiwan. He married his wife Charlene, Taiwanese and has tow daughters, first generation in U.S. He has been serving of Christianity at Canaan Taiwanese Christian Church over sixteen years at Mountain View, California. In this Church, there are three services classified into three languages: English, Taiwanese, and Mandarin. I am interested in that wheat’s the vision of him for God’s sake to come to United Sates? What’s feeling as an immigrant in U.S? How does he interact with these people who are immigrant from Taiwan and ABSs, ABTs 2nd-3rd generation? I am looking forward to seeing the new perspective of his own.

In conclusion, after interview with Pastor Dan, I deeply feel we need to renew our mind (Romans 12:2) to use different perspective views to see this country once we start to choose to settle down. Some of thoughts are supposed to update. For example, personally, I can not often thing of past where I lived in Taiwan instead of updating my mind in positive way when I am living in this land so that I may know how to adjust to live here. The benefit is good for me to reduce discrimination in order to assimilation. I can live more health and enjoy the freedom. Meanwhile, I have to improve my English that will be helpful to communicate with people in diversity. They may understand what my thought or emotion is through my behavior when they interact or communicate with me. Another important thing is the vote is very important for Asian American who can have more chance to present our “voice” in this country. Finally, through the Bible saying “We are children of His own”, there is no special distinction before His presence. Needless to day, we have to love each other without racism as we live on the earth under the “Heaven.”


##I got the score of 44/50 (50)