However, I had not even glanced at my passport, which gathered dust in my drawer. Now, I had to use my passport to go to a strange country. My, what a big change in my life this was going to be…if I heard right from Jesus.

I could not speak Chinese. “Do you have the right man for this job Lord?”

Well one thing I have learned is that when God gives you an idea about what he wants you to do; He will plant in you seed. Water it with a little bit of willingness on your part, and the seed will start to sprout.

All of a sudden, Chinese words started to cross my path. People who had their own interest in China handed articles about China to me.  They had no knowledge of what the Lord had said to me about China.

Then the Lord dropped the atomic bomb of inspiration on me. He spoke to me in a prophetic way that I was supposed to say the name of Jesus to between 30 million and 120 million people.

This was strange. No plan of salvation was required. I just had to mention the name of Jesus to all of these people. What good for the kingdom of God was that? I had extreme doubts that I was hearing from God. Still, I was excited to be just a small part of that plan.

“Ok, Lord so what’s next?”

I bought a newspaper to find some information about building materials that I needed, and I read about a Chinese official who was caught embezzling money from his company. Right under the article was a notice of a change of address to larger quarters for the Chinese embassy in Los Angeles. Hmnn…I have to get a visa. Father that is good timing.

Maybe there was something to the Word of the Lord I received.

I felt a strong impression to go to the internet that morning, and see who had emailed me. A friend gave my email to a Chinese woman who was anxious to meet an American man. Her name was Christina or Hua (pronounced WAH like a baby’s cry in the middle of the night).

He told her to read www.believersbay.com, and look at my writings, and see what she thought about me. She emailed me at that same hour. She called me that day and started to talk to me.

She told me there was plenty of work to do in China, teaching English. She could find me a job teaching English anytime. We continued to write and formed a relationship, which grew deeper into love. I finally made up my mind to go to see my friend and this new possible love interest in China.

“Ok, Lord, show me how to do this because I am so scared”…I was scared out of my mind actually.

Visas, passports, embassies were all foreign to me. I was in a surreal world, and too embarrassed to say that I was ignorant of this formerly mythological experience. Just flying to LA was a short, but wonderful experience for me. I got a rental car and started to tour the city that I had only seen before on television.

I went to the Chinese embassy next, and walked right into where they issued my visa the next day. I expected months of waiting for a bureaucratic paper shuffler to earn his daily wage.

The Chinese are talented at moving a large amount of things at one time whether it is visas or people or traffic issues. Actually, my respect for Beijing rises every year as the price of my visa continues to decline.

As I boarded the plane with some last minute problems with luggage, (my baggage was overweight by a large amount) I asked the Lord if I was supposed to go to China for the one-thousandth time. He just let me ask the question. I watched as the problem resolved itself as most problems do when He is involved in the rearranging. I had to give up some minor clothing possessions.

On October 1^st 2003 I was married after a courtship of several months to Christina Hua Ye Molloy. It was a civil ceremony, propaganda mostly, just paper shuffling, and I paid seven RMB, which in Chinese money is about 84 cents American for paper work documentation.

We then went out into the corridor and there was a man who asked me to enter into the next room. After entering the room, I was astounded to find no less than eight newspapers and one multi-channeled broadcasting television station represented. I felt like a famous movie star enamored by paparazzi.

Questions came at me from left and right, and Christina translated all of their questions directed to me. I sang a Chinese song that I had learned in America and the television cameras wanted to make sure that they caught that on video.

There are @ 10 million people in this city and the rumor has it that whenever one person reads the paper then four more people read over his/her shoulder. Therefore, if 10 million people saw us get married then we could add that to the total amount of people that we gave interviews to afterwards. We were front-page news for about two months. It was a joyride for Jesus. 

Then they asked the most important question I ever heard…