The Marriage Celebration of Susie Yeo and Joseph Chow
Today was the wedding of dear friends Joe Chow and Susie Yeo.
I met Joe a few years ago when I started serving in Alpha, a 10-week course on Christianity offered by my church as an evangelistic outreach opportunity. Joe hosted a small group and I was his “helper.” Alpha eventually morphed into Introducing God, and Joe and I continued to serve together. Joe, who, by the way, is from Taiwan, is a true man of God. He loves Jesus and desires to follow his example. He lives his life in obedience to God, and there is much fruit in Joe’s life. Joe is genuinely concerned for the eternal destiny of his fellow man, and God has worked through and used Joe to bring many to salvation. One of the things I love most about Joe is his knowledge of scripture; regardless of the topic or issue, Joe knows exactly which verse of the Bible to go to.
Many years ago – before I knew him – Joe’s first wife left him. (Joe has 3 teenage children: 2 sons and a daughter.) Even though they were separated and subsequently divorced, Joe remained faithful to his wife, continually praying for reconciliation and for restoration of their marriage. After Joe’s first wife remarried a couple years ago, Joe felt God calling him to find a new wife.
Joe met Susie, who is from Malaysia, about a year ago. She lived in Portland, Ore., so they carried on a long-distance relationship. I met Susie last summer when she visited Joe in Maryland. I was instantly taken with her. She is a beautiful woman who also is a very godly woman. She loves the Lord and desires to obey his Word.
In early July, Susie moved herself and her 19-year old son, Justin, to Maryland in preparation for the upcoming wedding. I am so glad that Joe and Susie found love with each other. May God bless their marriage and their lives together.
Scripture Readings
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:9-12)
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:12-16)
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8)
Here are just a few photographs I took of Susie's and Joe's wedding:
Today was the wedding of dear friends Joe Chow and Susie Yeo.
I met Joe a few years ago when I started serving in Alpha, a 10-week course on Christianity offered by my church as an evangelistic outreach opportunity. Joe hosted a small group and I was his “helper.” Alpha eventually morphed into Introducing God, and Joe and I continued to serve together. Joe, who, by the way, is from Taiwan, is a true man of God. He loves Jesus and desires to follow his example. He lives his life in obedience to God, and there is much fruit in Joe’s life. Joe is genuinely concerned for the eternal destiny of his fellow man, and God has worked through and used Joe to bring many to salvation. One of the things I love most about Joe is his knowledge of scripture; regardless of the topic or issue, Joe knows exactly which verse of the Bible to go to.
Many years ago – before I knew him – Joe’s first wife left him. (Joe has 3 teenage children: 2 sons and a daughter.) Even though they were separated and subsequently divorced, Joe remained faithful to his wife, continually praying for reconciliation and for restoration of their marriage. After Joe’s first wife remarried a couple years ago, Joe felt God calling him to find a new wife.
Joe met Susie, who is from Malaysia, about a year ago. She lived in Portland, Ore., so they carried on a long-distance relationship. I met Susie last summer when she visited Joe in Maryland. I was instantly taken with her. She is a beautiful woman who also is a very godly woman. She loves the Lord and desires to obey his Word.
In early July, Susie moved herself and her 19-year old son, Justin, to Maryland in preparation for the upcoming wedding. I am so glad that Joe and Susie found love with each other. May God bless their marriage and their lives together.
Scripture Readings
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:9-12)
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:12-16)
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. (1 Peter 4:8)
Here are just a few photographs I took of Susie's and Joe's wedding:
Joe, best man Alex (Joe's son) and Pastor Greg Somerville wait for the bride.
Susie's son, Justin, walks her down the aisle.
They're married!
Introducing Mrs. and Mrs. Joseph Chow.
"Kiss"
Beautiful bouquet
What a great looking couple!
So happy!
Me with the bride and groom.
Getting ready for the toast.
Toast!
Believe it or not, Joe made this wedding cake. It is not only beautiful, but it tasted yummy, too!
Cutting the cake.
Shoveling it in!
Instead of throwing rice, wedding guests blew bubbles. 
Leaving the church to start their new lives!
