{"id":513,"date":"2010-05-16T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ta100people.wpengine.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2010-05-16T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T19:28:42","slug":"roger-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/roger-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Lin &#8211; Pastor and Counselor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>My parents immigrated here in the 1970&#8217;s for graduate studies and began  our family here. I am proud to be Taiwanese American because of my  parent&#8217;s sacrifice for my generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-516\" title=\"lin.roger2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.roger2-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"lin.roger2\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.roger2-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.roger2.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/>Who are you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a child of God.\u00a0 I believe that there is a God that created me and loved me. He had me in mind before creation of the world and has a purpose for my life. I am His child.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Vocationally I have two titles.\u00a0 I work as a pastor at Life Creek Church up in Milwaukee, WI.\u00a0 It is a predominantly Korean American church.\u00a0 I teach the Bible, run the youth program, train leaders, and serve through outreach\/missions.\u00a0 As a Taiwanese American working in a Korean context, it really brings out the strengths and weaknesses of my cultural background and the ability as an outsider to understand Korean culture.\u00a0 It&#8217;s exciting working in this cross-cultural context.<\/p>\n<p>My other is title is a counselor. My passion is to bring healing to broken hearts through grace and truth.\u00a0 I am currently being trained as a Clinical Psychologist (Psy.D.) and work at a college counseling center.<\/p>\n<p>I love what I do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you proud to be of Taiwanese heritage?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I am 2nd generation Taiwanese American.\u00a0 My parents immigrated here in the 1970&#8217;s for graduate studies and began our family here. I am proud to be Taiwanese American because of my parent&#8217;s sacrifice for my generation.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t be where I am today without them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the  future of Taiwanese America look like to you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Honestly, as I survey my Taiwanese American friends and colleagues, we are already living out our vision and hopes.\u00a0 So many of my TA friends are wildly successful: living out their passions, finding their place in the world and enjoying the fulfillment of helping the community.<\/p>\n<p>Future-wise, more of what we&#8217;re experiencing now: passion, realizing our place, and the fulfillment of helping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any  additional  information you would like to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I like Taiwanese eggplant and bitter melon. I crave Taiwanese food on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-517\" title=\"lin.roger1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.roger1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lin.roger1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.roger1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/lin.roger1.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee, WI Who are you? I am a child of God.\u00a0 I believe that there is a God that created me and loved me. He had me in mind before creation of the world and has a purpose for my life. I am His child. What do you do? Vocationally I have two titles.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}