A Church Grows in Brooklyn
Sheluyang Peng with his parents at Fourth Avenue Methodist Church in Brooklyn, where the two of them preach. (All photos by Hilary Swift for The Free Press)
People say immigrants like my parents do the jobs native-born Americans don’t want to do. Keeping the faith is one of them.
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I remember attending my father’s graduation from theological seminary in idyllic Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when I was four years old. My father was away for months studying in the U.S. while I was in China, so when I saw him in his robes and cap, he looked like a monarch at his coronation. I also remember the cars that shared the road with the horses and…
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