Reflection on My Years - Sunoko Lin

The years I spent in SMAKI were good formative yearsbefore I moved to the States to study, and started my life here in Los Angeles. Teachers and friends at SMAKI have helped develop me as a person passionate for learning and for serving God.

I remembered in 1982 when I entered SMAKI, my friend RH, would call me every Sunday morning to join him to go to Persekutuan Siswa Pintu Air, but in the first few weeks I resisted with many excuses. Did it stop him? No. Finally, I gave up, and came with him to Persekutuan. There I received Christ. Thank you, my friend. God has used you to transform me. No one knew, not even in my family, that I struggeled spiritually as teenager. My life was empty and purposeless. Inside, I was hungry spirtually and was searching, but I was too shy to go to church until I could no longer resist. There on my first visit, a speaker who did not know me, preached what I was looking for, and I accepted Christ, and He has transformed my life ever since. Dr. Clinton, my professor at Fuller, coined it "Divine Contact".

Now I am studying in Fuller Seminary for my graduate degree to help me prepare for my ministry as I am called to plant a multi-ethnic church, church that will be a home to Indonesian, Vietnamese, Chinese,Philipino, Anglo, and more.

I will close with my favorite verse from Luke 2:52,"And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men." Jesus grew in four areas: He grew in stature, He grew in wisdom, He grew in favor with God and He grew in favor with Men.

As Jesus grew, we all need to grow in our intellectual dimension, physical dimension, social dimension, and spiritual dimension. I thank God for the opportunity to study at SMAKI as those years have played a critical part in my spiritual growth.