{"id":974,"date":"2024-03-03T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qualityacting.org\/?page_id=974"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:10:47","slug":"living-hope","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qualityacting.org\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Rain, Roar, Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/RainRoarShine\/RainRoarShine2024.jpg\" alt=\"Rain, Roar, Shine\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Rain, Roar, Shine&#8221; Synposis:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cRain, Roar, Shine\u201d is a stage drama based on a real testimony.  The story\u2019s main character, Mary, grew up in a traditional Chinese family with teaching of Christian values like love others as yourself, giving with cheerful heart, marriage is a live long promise.<\/p>\n<p>When Mary was young, she dreamed of having a loving husband and a blessed marriage.  In college, she met Michael who treated her like an angel.  However, Michael became a totally different person after marriage with verbal abuses, harsh criticism with everything Mary did.  Meanwhile, Michael became very stingy, complaining everything, perfectionistic, and narcissistic making Mary very uneasy.  However, she didn\u2019t resist but continue to raise their son and daughter by herself.  Although\tshe  feels sad and even thought of getting divorced, she still believes marriage is for life.  This troubles her constantly.  She prayed earnestly to God and miraculously, Michael asked for the divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Mary was inspired by God to change career from teaching to real estate.  Although she didn\u2019t know how to start, she only knew to trust and obey God, listen to the Holy Spirit.  When her life started to get settled, her son suddenly was involved in a major car accident that damaged his brain.  His chance for fully recovered was slim to none.  After 30 days in ICU, God healed him miraculously. <\/p>\n<p>After the abusive marriage, God doubled Mary\u2019s blessings.  Mary met her second husband who is kind, loving, and very supportive.  They live together trusting God and the Holy Spirit.  In addition, Mary\u2019s real estate career is advancing well.  Mary always gives to various medical research facilities, establishes scholarships for single family children, returning God\u2019s favor to the needy communities.<\/p>\n<p>This story has a collection of many life moments in Mary\u2019s life.  From her experiences show how God teaches, rescues, renews, protects, and provides guidance.  Even in the golden age, she continues to learn the great love from God, His power can lead us to have a happy and abundant lives.<\/p>\n<p>To many of us, when bad things happen, we always focus on finding the solutions.  When the results are not satisfactory, we get anxious.  When we lay our worries to God\u2019s hands, God will give us peace that is out of this world.  Even the situation is not resolved, we know that God is with us.  When things turn worse, God is preparing behind the scenes.  We just need to have faith and listen carefully with a living hope that God will give us guidance.  <\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n\u201cAs it is written: \u201cWhat no eye has seen,\u00a0what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived\u201d\u00a0the things God has prepared for those who love him\u201d  1 Corinthians 2:9<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u00a0In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.\u00a0These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith\u2014of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire\u2014may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.\u201d  1 Peter 1:6-7<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Performance Locations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>06\/15\/2024 Sat 4:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\nECF International<br \/>\n437 South Garfield Avenue, Monterey Park, CA 91754<br \/>\nTel: (626) 288-8828<\/p>\n<p><strong>07\/13\/2024 Sat 4:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\nGrace Community Church<br \/>\n337 W. Pomona Blvd., Monterey Park, CA 91754<br \/>\nTel\uff1a(323) 888-6087<\/p>\n<p><strong>08\/10\/2024 Sat 4:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\nSt Mark&#8217;s Chinese Lutheran Church<br \/>\n807 Turnbull Canyon Road, Hacienda Heights, CA 91745<br \/>\nTel: (626) 330-1643<\/p>\n<p><strong>08\/24\/2024 Sat 7:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\nChinese Baptist Church<br \/>\n8705 Lindell Road, #150, Las Vegas, NV 89139<br \/>\nTel: (702) 516-5126<\/p>\n<p><strong>09\/07\/2024 Sat 4:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena<br \/>\nLee Chapel<br \/>\n3700 East Sierra Madre Boulevard\u2029Pasadena, CA 91107<br \/>\nTel\uff1a(626) 351-2477<\/p>\n<p><strong>09\/21\/2024 Sat 4:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst Evangelical Church Arcadia<br \/>\n625 W. Foothill Blvd., Monrovia, CA 91016<br \/>\nTel\uff1a(626) 249-0090<\/p>\n<p><strong>10\/05\/2024 Sat 4:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\nCantonese Baptist Church<br \/>\n119 S. 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