Welcome to the Crazy Love Podcast.

As many of you know, the beginning of 2020, Pastor Francis Chen and his family followed

God's lead and moved to Asia to work with the local church there.

In this week's episode, we sit down with Pastor Francis Chen as he provides us with

an update on what's been going on this past year, from his time in Hong Kong to his transition

back into the US.

He also shares with us a few of the things God has put on his heart along the journey

he's currently on regarding unity in the church across the greater body of Christ.

So praise God, I hope that you are really encouraged.

Let's jump right in.

So we're getting all these questions, you know, just about what's going on in my life,

and so I thought I would just answer some of those real briefly.

I just assume everyone already knows this or heard this, but I keep running into people

going, hey, I thought you were in Asia.

And yeah, I was, and I thought we're going to be there for life, sold the house, everything

else, and after about a year there, they would not give us a visa to stay.

We just assumed it was a done deal, and we were just loving it.

The whole family was there, 12 of us actually stood one daughter in San Francisco, but the

other 12 of us were in Hong Kong, and we were just heartbroken, just a lot of tears.

I could not believe we had to come back to the US because it was an adventure.

And you just felt like God was doing things and opening up doors.

And so coming back to the States was kind of like a grieving time for a couple of months,

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