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Editor In Chief Miller |
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Real Name: Kevin Hui Born: 1/25/85 Hometown: Peabody, MA School: PVMHS Grade: 9th / High School Freshman / Class of 2003 |
On one stormy morning in January a child by the name of Kevin Koonlun Hui was born. The name was known but the impact this child would have on the yet to be formed fellowship called "Teens With a Reason" was unknown. He was born into a Christian family, his father (the current BCEC Board of Deacons Chairman, his mother, and his annoying yet still Christian sister, Kathryn Chingee Hui.
This child was brought up to be an excelling student that most Chinese people are. Among other things inherited from his Chinese ancestry was black hair, a short build, and (of course) bad eyesight. This child ended up overcoming these difficulties to excel at elementary and middle school, but what about Sunday School?
As a child, he would be a normal 7 year old Sunday scholar and be able to memorize the memory verses verbatim to win prizes and be able to occasionally recite during snack time:
"Dear God,
Thank you for the food and the drinks
In Jesus's name we pray, Amen."
By the time Kevin was in 2nd grade, his peers recognized his merorization and public speaking skills by dubbing him "Mr. Know-it-all", which proved to give him quite of an ego problem. He began to talk a lot due to the inference that he "knew it all". As a result, he became somewhat of a troublemaker. He made wise-cracks and occasionally hid under tables which did not make the Sunday School teachers happy. He showed somewhat of a maturity over the years after the fear of being yelled at by his parents after parent-teacher conferences (those things still scare him), but he couldn't control the urge to make jokes. He began to not pay attention as much in Sunday School (which he deeply regrets now).
By the time he was in fifth grade, he began going to a new fellowship called "Teens With a Reason" and was clearly the youngest one there. He still didn't quite pay attention that much, but he loved TWR because of the fun and games. He would occasionally pick up some teenage knowledge here and there but most would go in ear and out the other. After being in TWR for a while (at least a year), there was an age rule which resulted in him being tossed out of TWR every now and then.
As he got to the middle school years his academics remained high and his spiritual growth got better and better although he still felt the need to be a "clown". In 6th grade, a new guy by the name of Rodney Wong got him thinking. Rodney was the kind of guy who was and is very strong in his faith, but also has the inner child. Rodney also liked to joke around here and there with quick and witty jokes notably during trivia games (i.e. Spell for me..., how many of each animal were on Moses's Ark?). Kevin began paying lots of attention at the concept of trying to be "jing ging" (serious) most of the time, yet there were jokes, but not as much. This was good because this was one of the first years I got a good report from Parent-Teacher Conferences.
In February of 1998, a big turning point came in the form of Teen Conference. The speaker was Mike Palompo and I was very spirited that weekend which made me burn with the fire of God. Flame On!!! It was there I rededicated my life to Christ and decided to spend time with God every night. I was burning for a very long time, but I always get off track like the Gorilla in one of my patented stories (I'm sure you'll hear it someday), but there was a summer retreat and it lit me again. My life kept on going back and forth. I got on track throught the next years in many ways like my dad bcoming ill, my grandmother's death, Teen Conference '99, 30 hour famine, fear of being bombed like Columbine, camping, Camp Berea, and Teen Conference 2000.
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