I was bought up in a worshipping Buddhist family,
but I personally attended a Catholic school. That's very common in Hong Kong because the Christian schools are much better than the government ones.

It was voluntary to go to all the Catholic services and I went for a while but I gave up.

I was never a very devoted Buddhist, but my parents worshipped two times a month at home.
We also had a picture of our grandfather in the house and we would worship at the picture. Buddhists believe in the worship of ancestors.

Once I got married to my wife, Joyce, we only went to the temple together twice a year - once at Chinese New Year and then again towards the end of the year.

At the New Year, we would try to pray for a good life for the year and then at the end of the year we would thank God for giving us a good year.

That was our habit for 15 to 18 years.

Through all this time, I was very frightened of the dark and of ghosts.
Every month or two I made regular marketing trips around Southeast Asia, staying in hotels.

Each night I had to turn on all the lights of my hotel bedroom - and the TV as well before I could go to sleep. If I didn't do it, I simply couldn't go to sleep because I was so scared of ghosts. It meant that I never slept very well.

In 1998, Joyce's sister Ivy returned to Hong Kong after living in Canada. She had been a Christian for 10-15 years.

Joyce went to the church and met some of the pastors and workers there - and was impressed by them. She started going to church, and also a Bible study. Then she was invited on an Alpha course near our home. She did the course and in 1999 became a Christian. We had been married for 20 something years, with not much quarrelling. But after Joyce became a Christian, I started to argue with her a lot!

She was suddenly so much at ease with herself and tried to convince me to do Alpha. I quarreled with her again and again about religion.

I said, "Hey, lady, you've been following the Buddha for 20 years. All of a sudden you come and tell me, 'I've become a Christian'."

After finishing the Alpha course, one day she attended a lunch party run by the Full Gospel organization. It was a regular luncheon on the first Thursday of every month. At the end, the speaker told her, "We also have Alpha course in our company. Why don't you come?" So she went again.

This time she wanted me to go with her, but I refused to go.

Then, a little later, she told me that she had enrolled for the Alpha weekend in a camp outside the city. It was going to last for a Friday and a Saturday and she asked me to come.

She had been so insistent that I thought. "Why don't I start to listen to her and see what Christianity is"? I have an irregular heartbeat, but suddenly I had a feeling of great peace in my heart. She had told me that car parking would be very limited, so I said, "OK, fine. If you can get a car parking space for me, then I will go with you."

I had polio as a child and I am disabled (my leg doesn't work properly), so she called the car people and said, "Can you give me a car park space for my husband?" mentioning that I am disabled.

She got the space and so I went with her.

My irregular heartbeat came again and that Friday afternoon, I needed to see the doctor because if felt bad. I had the medical check and the doctor said everything was perfect - but I was still not feeling well.

I continued to feel bad during the weekend until the Saturday morning when the leader prayed for the Holy Spirit to come. Suddenly I had a feeling of great peace in my heart again. I thought, "that is strange.'

Once the weekend was over, I started to go to Alpha with Joyce - but this time voluntarily.

Then, a few days after the weekend, I was driving from my office to my home, just a 25-minute journey, when I began to think how good God had been to me during the 50 years of my life.

Something came into my mind saying, 'Six months after your birth you had polio and became disabled, but since then God has given you a very good life in terms of job, family (my wife and children), health…'

Although I never attended university, I was given the chance to become a marketing vice president for the Bank of New York. I am responsible for marketing the bank in five countries in Southeast Asia.

That is despite the fact that it's very hard to do marketing work when you are disabled.

God also gave me my health. Because of my polio, my doctor suggested back in the 1980s that I do more exercise or I would have to be in a wheelchair. I couldn't run or play football, so I started to learn how to swim. Now I swim every morning for 45 minutes, so my body has stayed fit.

When I got home, I told Joyce all this and she said, "You see - God has been so good to you even though you don't follow him in every part of your life."

That evening I gave my life to God, Joyce and I prayed together each giving ourselves to God. We both cried.

Then I started reading the book Questions of Life as well as continuing with Alpha.
I found it all very interesting. At my Catholic school, I studied the Bible - but only to do well in the examination. I got grade B.

But now I started reading the Bible for myself. I also started reading a lot of Christian books. As well as Questions of Life, I read Searching Issues and another book called More than a Carpenter.

I was looking to find out whether this was the real God that created the world, so I started looking out for books that claimed that Jesus Christ had never been in the world and never risen from the dead.

I thought there must be books saying, "This is only a story" but I never found them. So I started thinking, "it must be true - it's only 2,000 years ago. After all, China's history is 5,000 years!"

I realized that a lot of evidence already proved that Jesus came into the world 2,000 years ago and that he died, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.
I came to the conclusion that if so many books have been written about Jesus Christ, he must have been a real person.

The Alpha course changed my life. Before becoming a Christian, I used very bad language, foul language, every day. Almost every time I spoke, I would include some of the words.
But within a few weeks of becoming a Christian, I found that my language had completely changed. Not even one bit of bad words was on my lips.

As for my fear of the dark and my fear of ghosts, I now don't need to have the lights on in my hotel room when I am traveling. Neither do I need the TV on.

And now- for the last one and a half years - I have slept much better. I am at peace now. God changed me.

I pray to Jesus every day now - every morning, before every meal, and every evening. I would never have done that before.

Our family has so much more to share now, because the whole family is Christian. After us, our daughter became a Christian and on Easter Sunday of 2000, we were all baptized together.

Now we go to church every week and we help on Alpha every Thursday.

I am more devoted to God now and to Jesus Christ than ever I was to Buddha.