Doing life together
Here at Gracepoint I experienced a body of believers who really cared for one another. Not just a hi and bye on Sundays, but doing life together. I experienced that memorably surrounding the time when my father passed away a couple of years ago due to cancer. Months before my father passed away, all the members at Gracepoint were praying for my father, especially for his salvation. Through the prayers of everyone at Gracepoint, a miracle happened to my father who was passing away in Korea. After over 60 years of living and over 30 years of marriage, he was finally broken by the truth of who he was. He broke down in tears after a Bible study he heard in Korea, and then the unthinkable thing happened. He apologized to my mother for all the wrong he had done to her. This was no ordinary…"I’m sorry honey" kinda thing. With tears and sincerity in his voice he apologized; something my mom said he had never done in all the years she had been married to him. From this she was assured something fundamentally shifted inside his heart, and that he was on his way to heaven. We brought back my father’s ashes to California to bury him in a cemetery in the East Bay. I and my family were overwhelmed with the number of Gracepoint brothers and sisters who came out to be at my side to comfort me and my family. So many rushed to the funeral after work all over the Bay Area. It’s hard to believe that my dad, who was such an opponent to going to church in the past, was the recipient of so many heartfelt prayers. For this I can never thank God enough.