Living a New Faith in a New Land

Our friend and colleague Yaxin (yah-SHEEN) Lu was born and raised in mainland China and hit young adulthood during the era of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. It served as a stark reminder that freedom -- political, religious, or ideological -- was severely constrained. Yaxin converted to Christianity and a combination of faith, family, hope, and opportunity for her and her husband -- also a Christian convert -- led them to the United States. Their decision to act on the belief that God had more than one child for her and her husband burned the bridge between her and her native land, given the one-child policy of the time.