went on their first date after a week.
forced to see each other, and although at first it seemed
like they won’t get over the awkwardness after the fight,
How they got married
For Dan, Anica was his first love, therefore soon
after they started dating, he started to think seriously
about marriage. Two weeks after their first date, Dan
was serving at a youth retreat and he started praying
they were able to overcome it and reconcile before their
long flight home. When Anica saw how they were able
to overcome hardship in this way, she realized Dan was
the one she wanted to marry.
about marriage with Anica. He didn’t hear any word Christian walk after marriage
of confirmation regarding marriage from God, but he After their first meeting at the movies in August 2007,
did feel strongly that he was to continue to date Anica. they got engaged in March the next year, and finally
So as they continued to meet, they started to attend the got married in September 2008. Having passed one of
Vision Ministry (VM) college worship together (since the greatest rites of passage within one year, the two
there was no other worship for young adults at the discussed and prayed about their future and church life
time). One day, after VM worship, they were carrying after marriage. Before getting married, Dan attended
a conversation at church when Dr. Paul Ro walked by. the VM worship at FKBC on Friday nights while
He commented how wonderful it was to see two young serving his home church on Sundays as the youth
adults dating with the intention of marriage. Flustered, group leader. Around the same time as their marriage,
Dan replied that they had only been dating for 2-3 his home church’s English ministry and Chinese
weeks and Dr. Ro was taken aback. But that became ministry had some conflict, and with the English pastor
a turning point for Dan and Anica as it led to a serious deciding to go on missions, the English ministry at his
conversation about marriage. Chinese church basically disappeared. Dan could’ve
moved to an American church like his other Chinese
For Anica, the confirmation about marriage came counterparts, but he felt the calling to stay at FKBC. He
later. Around 2 months into dating, Anica’s cousin got was encouraged and challenged by Deacons Peter and
married and Anica asked Dan to accompany her to Julie Yun who were serving the EM at FKBC as a young
the wedding. Dan unfortunately was unable to attend couple without any fellowship of their own age group.
but promised that the next wedding she gets invited He was also touched to see multigenerational families
to, he will go with her. Who would’ve known that the worship at one church together! Even at their wedding,
next wedding turned out to be her friend’s wedding in he saw how Anica’s parents’ cell group members along
Hawaii! People around Dan, including his sister, pointed with their children and so many FKBC church members
out that going to Hawaii together almost certainly helped with the decorations and food preparations for
looked like something significant was being planned, their wedding. He truly felt the love of being a part of
like a proposal! But by the time Dan realized what they God’s family at this church.
were trying to warn him about, it was too late, and he
had already bought plane tickets to Hawaii. Only then
did he see how far away Hawaii was and what a long
plane ride this would end up being! What started as a
fulfillment of a simple promise turned out to be a long
trip halfway around the world, and the week they had to
spend together ended up being an enormous amount of
time. Halfway through the week, they had their first big
fight. But since they were on a trip together, they were
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Their start in serving the English Ministry
When Dan and Anica decided to obey God’s calling and
serve FKBC, they knew and were prepared to not have
any peers of their own age for a while. At that time,
VM was the center of the EM and there were not many
EM young adults who graduated college, like Dan and
Anica. Therefore they had to worship with the college
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