“So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and members of the household of God” – Ephesians 2:19
We landed as “immigrants” at Heathrow on August 12, 2022. Everything in the UK was strange, we had no friends in Wokingham and we had to adapt to a completely new culture.
Life was uncertain, but in a different way from where we had left.
Like most of the Hongkongers recently arrived in the UK, we had never planned to leave until the huge social changes of the last decade.
So many of us were ill-equipped psychologically to leave what we knew, nor had the know-how to build a new life in a new land.
Amazingly, on our third day of arrival, we were looking around the town and we passed by Kings Church.
The Sunday service was about to start, and someone invited us in.
This “chance meeting” began an affiliation, not only to the church but through the church to the wider town.
The church has helped and served our needs (both spiritual and social). And it has given us a platform for us to help and serve local people, making use of our family’s background in social work.
We’re now providing meals and support weekly through a church programme. We also occasionally cook Chinese food for the whole church, which everyone seems to enjoy.
Thank God he lead us to the church, which has helped us adapt, belong and feel commitment in our “new homeland”.
KK and Shan Wong are members of King’s Church Wokingham, writing on behalf of Churches Together in Wokingham
