Non-exhaustive, in no particular order:

  1. its vision is to live a community (thus the name change from Fort Bend Chinese Church to Fort Bend Community Church), in grace
  2. 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
  3. it seeks to grow God-centered believers who have a heart for missions, starting from youth
  4. I can learn from the persevering wisdom and godly example of the women older than me
  5. the senior pastor seeks to always preach from the Word, and use humble examples from his own personal applications and life struggles
  6. it is where I grew up, it is who brought me up in the Truth
  7. it is where I got baptized, to whom I proclaimed and asked for accountability in continuing to follow Christ
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. it is where my parents serve, from the lunch service to the library to the Chinese school
  11. 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
  12. it is where I have clumsily served beside another, who had so much faith
  13. 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