In the summer of 2016, Wendy Tian moved to Swarthmore from her home in China to pursue a six-month fellowship in education at the University of Pennsylvania. Soon after arriving, she began to attend Sunday-morning worship services at Swarthmore Presbyterian Church, as well as evening bible study. Tien and her family returned to China over three years ago. But in March of this year, SPC pastor Rev. Joyce Shin received an email from her.