By the Grace of God

By God's grace and thanks to my fellow blogger, Angela, I found out today that my brother made it into cyber news (Yahoo AP) with his family in Boston.

Church Elder David Ting holds his son Tobin, 2, as the congregation stands at the beginning of Sunday service at Grace Chapel in Lexington, Mass., Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007. Grace Chapel is one of many megachurches altering the segregated landscape of Sunday worship, with African-American, Haitian, white, Chinese and Korean congregants singing along with a guitar-playing pastor. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

...David Ting, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Grace Chapel elder, has seen this firsthand. When he and his wife first joined the megachurch a decade ago, they were 'very much in the minority' as Chinese-Americans, he said. But at a recent church Christmas pageant, he realized that the children's choir had transformed: about a third of the singers were Asian.
'Look,' he told his wife, 'this is the future of Grace Chapel.'

What strange chance that my brother should make the news, less than a week after our own appearance in the Baltimore Sun. I think it's kind of neat, especially since I learned something new about my brother's multiracial megachurch, I guess I've been remiss in asking him more about it. By another uncanny coincidence, I also have been, albeit sporadically, attending a Grace megachurch in my own neck of the woods, as a token Chinese. For some reason I never put two and two together, his Grace megachurch and mine, until I read the article. I suppose even church preferences can run deep in one's bloodline. It's just too bad I can't tap into this cosmic twist of fate and, somehow, coincidentally, win the lottery.