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After Jeremy Lin set an NBA record for the New York Knicks with an incredible stretch of 109 points scored in his first four starts, and the New York Times included a link to StudentSoul in one of its Lin stories, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship\u2019s page views went through the roof. \u201cLinsanity\u201d it has been dubbed.<\/p>\n

Because he was a varsity athlete, Lin\u2019s involvement in the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (HRAACF) and the broader Asian community at Harvard was somewhat limited, according to Adrian Tam, who was an HRAACF Campus staffer during that period.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeremy was in the spotlight at Harvard before he was in the spotlight in the NBA,\u201d Tam says. \u201cHe showed that Asian-Americans could be leaders, they could be athletic, and they could be bold and open about their faith in a winsome way.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a video testimony, Lin said he missed Christian community at Harvard until he connected with HRAACF. Tam became a spiritual mentor to Lin, meeting with him regularly, studying the Bible together and reading together such books as Too Busy Not to Pray. \u201cHe loved his roommates, spending lots of intense one-on-one time with them, leading investigative Bible studies with them, and just plain hanging out with them,\u201d Tam says.
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After Jeremy Lin set an NBA record for the New York Knicks with an incredible stretch of 109 points scored in his first four starts, and the New York Times included a link to StudentSoul in one of its Lin stories, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship\u2019s page views went through the roof. \u201cLinsanity\u201d it has been dubbed. 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