Non-exhaustive, in no particular order:
- its vision is to live a community (thus the name change from Fort Bend Chinese Church to Fort Bend Community Church), in grace
- even with its name change and acknowledgement and goal to love people of different races, it still has a specialty in reaching those who come overseas
- it seeks to grow God-centered believers who have a heart for missions, starting from youth
- I can learn from the persevering wisdom and godly example of the women older than me
- the senior pastor seeks to always preach from the Word, and use humble examples from his own personal applications and life struggles
- it is where I grew up, it is who brought me up in the Truth
- it is where I got baptized, to whom I proclaimed and asked for accountability in continuing to follow Christ
- it is where I have seen new attendees come into salvation and baptism in His Name, after their friends (members of the church) extended invitations
- it is where many people of different backgrounds (e.g. colleges, ethnicities, stage in life, journey of faith) still share their lives and stories and encouragement
- it is where my parents serve, from the lunch service to the library to the Chinese school
- it is where I have seen others grow from toddlerhood to maturity, and found encouragement as I see them shining their faith in their generation on their college campuses
- it is where I have clumsily served beside another, who had so much faith
- it is where I have been deeply hurt and yet found forgiveness and seen the change of Christ manifest in those I had grown up with, seeing how they are very much their uniques selves and yet been transformed by the amazing grace of Christ

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