To the world, Cambridge University is a symbol of academic excellence and historic prestige, its ancient colleges and manicured lawns representing the pinnacle of intellectual pursuit. Yet for many international students, particularly in the latter half of the 20th century, this esteemed environment could also be a place of profound cultural displacement and loneliness. It was into this specific context of need, the intersection of academic pressure and cultural alienation, that the Cambridge Chinese Christian Fellowship (CCCF) was born in 1973. More than a mere social club, the CCCF emerged as a spiritual home, a missional outpost born from a deep, personal understanding of the diaspora experience. Its story, however, does not exist in a vacuum. It resonates with the wider historical patterns of the Chinese church in the United Kingdom and reflects the spiritual DNA of the sending churches in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia.