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In today’s episode of the Dive Bar, I chat with our very own Pearl Diver Elgin Quan. If you’ve been following the Pearl Dive, you’ll know that Elgin has contributed a couple of stories already. “A Father and Son’s Full Circle Mission From Canton to Oakland” is based on her interview with Tim Wong, who reflected about his father Sen Wong’s life and ministry. Sen Wong was the founder of Chinese Bible Mission, a network of Chinese churches across Northern California.

Elgin also wrote “There Is None Like Him: A Mother’s Song of Survival and Salvation Across Oceans and Generations,” Cheng Lee Heen Jun’s (郑李显珍) harrowing journey from Guang XI to Vietnam and then to the US as a refugee.

I met Elgin several years ago when she was writing up interviews and stories of the members of the Cantonese Senior Fellowship at Sunset Church in San Francisco, a church that was formerly known as Sunset Chinese Baptist Church. I was so excited by her passion for elderly Chinese Christians and their stories and their histories that I just had to find a way to get her to be part of AACHI. So we’re so blessed that Elgin is one of our pearl divers, and I look forward to hearing more of her stories in the future, as I hope you do too.

This conversation was recorded on September 4th, 2024. — Tim Tseng

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