What reflections and connections can you make with this novel?

   Coming from a Christian family, I was constantly expose about the Christian faith.  However, I never realized the capacity of faith until I read the Peace Child.  As I look at the times I lived in China and America, I can see that those experience that made me the person I am today.  Reading the Peace Child made me question the idea of what the Peace Child is to me.
   I believe that faith is a big element when it comes to the Peace Child.  The book describes the hardships that Don Richardson and his wife had to face.  It must have been a major sacrifice to move in such a remote place, with just the faith of "God's Calling."  As a young-ling, I have always heard of God's Calling.  I would hear this from church, my parents, and other ministries.  My father said that he had "God's Calling" through a bus ride, and initially he didn't want to go to China.  But eventually, my family did go to China through this calling.  What I can't  understand is the reason behind this.  Why would you go to America as an immigrant, and waste your life trying to achieve the American Dream?  It seemed foolish to me, but now I see it as a tremendous faith.
    As I look at Don Richardson's testimony on his life journey, I cannot help but see my father the same person.  Like Don Richardson, my father went to a completely new culture, and try to spread the Gospel.  He didn't speak the native tongue; how would even share if he couldn't communicate?




   My life in China wasn't a choice.  It was given to me, I had to be there.  I remember that I made many friends from my school, but never from Chinese native.  I didn't like the Chinese culture.  I always had these stereotypes of these kids, and I'd never thought I continue living like that.  I wanted to be associated in a  western culture, specifically the Korean - American group.  While I was living in China, I didn't even realize that my faith would increase dramatically.  After Nine and a half years in my life in China, my dad wanted me to move to Korea.  I never lived in Korea before, but something made me set aside my worries.  I was sad that I would leave my home, friends, and the culture.  However, I had faith that all was going to be good.
   Reading the Peace Child reminds me of the times I had in China and the culture I had to encounter.  It reminded me of how my father had such big faith, and move to a country were my family couldn't speak.  It reminded me to have faith in the events to come, and how fortunate I was to live in China.