One of our hosts, a Christian Church at Zhangjiakou, gave us a lunch treat. We were all seated around one single table and no one was side lined. Zhangjiakou is quite near to Beijing. and it was my first visit to Northern China, a place where my father spent many years of his student life.
It was an impressive lunch with more than 24 dishes. There were so many different ways of presenting the individual dishes and our hosts introduced them patiently.
the Organising Chairperson was a fluent, compassionate Christian who testified that her family kept their faith throughout all the difficult days of history in China. For three generations they kept their faith. Other Christian sisters also spoke about their faith. In fact at this banquet we only met the lady members of the church while the male counterparts were all out working.
the lunch was a good exchange too for they learned a lot from the speeches of our leaders from Sarawak. They learned about our ancestors' migration from Fujian to Sarawak and how the Christian faith continued to maintained in our new home.
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