Welcome to the Bridgetown Church podcast. For the month of May we are honoring Asian American

Pacific Islander Month. Each week members of our church family will be sharing stories

that acknowledge and celebrate AAPI history from their lived experiences and the world at

large. A Bridgetown Gavin here. As we celebrate AAPI month or Asian American Pacific Islander

Month we want to continue to tell the stories of those of you who are in our body, who are

at Bridgetown Church in our community, who are AAPI. For those of us who are not so that

we can learn to enter into that experience, to have empathy, to be a part of that story.

And for those of you who are that you can remember that the AAPI experience is not monolithic,

that everybody will bring different things to their story of what it means to be AAPI.

So we are a family in Christ, but we are also different. We have different backgrounds,

different cultures, different experiences. And so it's important for us to tell those

stories. So to that end I have with me here Stephanie Quint and Josh Liu, both of whom

are community leaders at Bridgetown, both of whom are Asian American, Chinese American

to be specific, both of whom grew up in the Bay area, but a couple decades apart. So

their experiences though there are there's a lot of similarity, there's a lot of difference

as well. So in order to kind of get at this difference in monolithic culture, but also

some of the similarities in their stories we wanted them to share. So Steph, would you

start maybe tell us a little bit about who you are before we dive into all the questions.

Yes, so I'm Steph, I'm married to Peter, we've been married for 38 years. I was born

and raised in San Francisco. I'm second generation Chinese American, so my parents were also

born in San Francisco. I grew up in Chinatown, I went to school in Chinatown in San Francisco

and was immersed totally in that culture. We moved to Oregon 34 years ago. So I have lived

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