2020 Fall Newsletter PART 2

More Changes – The Lockdown

The timing was perfect for me when I was able to come home after settling my Mom back in her place and before the coronavirus surge was started in Korea. As soon as I finished my own quarantine at home the lockdown took place in Ireland in March. Again, SeungHee had been taking care of the ministry while I was gone, and with all the restrictions we too had to go online with Fireside Gathering in order to continue. Schools got closed and the students were sent home. We missed in-person fellowships, but did what we could do with the given situation.

Yujin’s dance competitions also have been going online since March. With the dance school closed and online competitions and programs arising, we emptied the biggest room in the house and turned it into a dance studio for him – Not big enough, but good enough. It worked just fine for him and he’s been winning online competitions just like before. This also opened up broader opportunities for him to have online training programs that he had not been able to have locally. He’s been learning new skills with that and preparing for college.

2020 Fall Newsletter PART 1

Greetings, friends and families!

This is a long overdue update for you. My apologies! And, thank you so much for staying faithful to us with your prayers and support in the meantime! My prayer is that you and your family would find strength from our Heavenly Father in your everyday life and His abundant goodness in all your needs. I’ve got much to share, more about the family than the ministries this time. I will try to be brief.

Reaching the Peak of the Year – WOSM in India

I was in India last August and September to run WOSM, a YWAM missions training course, for local Indian missionaries. It was an amazing time with the total 27 students, and God gave us a good success. They were highly dedicated and gifted workers for the kingdom, and it was absolutely my honor to serve them. The training was intensive and effective. When it was over, their complaint was that it was just too short. But, it was timely for the hosting ministry as they were about to regroup the entire ministry and move the main operation location.

2019-2020년 겨울소식

다들 평안하시길 기도합니다. 지난여름부터 많은 일이 있었습니다. 반면 그 때문에 정기 소식지도 그때그때 못 드리고 이제야 드리게 되었네요. 별다른 일이 없었다면 여름에 인도에서 진행했던 프로젝트에 관한 이야기부터 꺼내겠지만, 먼저 지난 몇 달간 가족 안에 일어난 일들부터 말씀드리지 않을 수 없습니다.

급변하는 가족 상황

간략하게 말씀드리자면, 작년 10월 아버지가 주무시는 중 뜻밖에 갑자기 소천하셨고 곧이어 한 달 만에 어머니에게는 치매가 찾아왔습니다. 한국에서는 당장 어머니를 돌봐드릴 수 있는 별다른 방법이 없어서 어느 정도의 병원치료 후 우선 아일랜드로 모시고 왔었고 지난 두 달간 저희가 집에서 돌봐드렸고요. 너무나 놀랍고도 감사한 것은 그러면서 어머니 상태가 아주 조금씩, 하지만 꾸준히 호전되기 시작했고 지금은 전보다 정말 많이 좋아지셨답니다. 그동안 정말 많은 일이 있었답니다. 이 일들로 지난 넉 달간 이미 한국을 두 차례 다녀와야 했고 다음 주 월요일에는 다시 어머니를 모시고 세 번째 방문해야 합니다.

2019 Summer Newsletter

Workshop On Strategic Missions

I’ve got an important project this summer, which is a training course for local missionaries in India this August. For the needs in the field and the given circumstances, I’ve made a few major changes in it, and it is now a 3-week intensive workshop. Please pray for this!

In recent years, it has been getting tougher and tougher for expat missionaries to enter and stay in India because of the fundamental Hindu government. It is now more important than any time before to train and equip local missionaries so they can multiply ministries by themselves. Especially, northern India and the Himalayas (north of the extended line of Delhi and Kolkata) have the most concentrated unreached people groups (100 million people) in the world with massive demonic activities, yet very few missionaries and very few Christians in the region. Though it’s been 227 years since the first Protestant missionary William Carey came to India in 1792, this area still remains as one of the 7 most strategic mission fields today. It is necessary to aggressively expand ministries in the region for the kingdom of God!

2019년 여름소식

Workshop On Strategic Missions

이번 여름에 실행할 중요한 프로젝트입니다. 8월에 인도에서 진행할 인도인 사역자들을 위한 선교 훈련과정(WOSM)인데요, 현지의 필요와 상황에 맞춰 몇 번 주요 설계변경을 했습니다. 그래서 단기간에 집중할 수 있는 3주짜리 웍샵으로 진행합니다. 기도 부탁드립니다!

인도는 최근 몇 년간 근본주의 힌두 정부로 인해 외국인 선교사의 입국 및 체류가 점점 어려워지는 상황이어서 현지인 사역자들이 훈련을 받아 직접 사역을 배가하는 것이 어느 때보다 중요한 시기입니다. 특히, 북부지역과 히말라야 지역은 전 세계에서 미전도 종족들이 가장 밀집되어(1억 명) 있는 지역이며 악령의 활동이 매우 왕성한 반면 기독교인과 선교사는 거의 전무한 곳입니다. 1792년 윌리엄 케리가 최초의 개신교 선교사로 인도에서 사역을 시작한 지 227년 지난 오늘도 이 지역은 아직도 전 세계에서 가장 우선적인 7개 선교지 중의 하나로 남아 있어서 이곳에서 공격적으로 사역을 확장하는 것은 하나님 나라를 위한 매우 전략적인 필요이지요! 

2019 Spring Newsletter

Irish Spring Greetings to You!

We hear some of you have moved, some started something new, some even thriving, most doing well where you are, yet some struggling with issues. We do pray that the Lord will keep you and give you grace for today… and again tomorrow! His love never fails!

And, here we give you our updates. We’ve been busy with a few projects already since January. Our application for another visa extension we had submitted in January went well, and we got another year in Ireland in March. Thank you for prayers!

2019년 봄소식

평안하신지요? 2019년 봄 소식지 드립니다

여러분은 어떻게 지내시는지 궁금합니다. 올해는 벌써 큰 행사들을 몇 번 치르느라 계속 바쁜 일정이었습니다. 그래서인지 아직 4월인 것이 감사하네요.

일단 지난 소식 간략히 드립니다. 1월에 다시 비자 연장 신청한 것은 순조롭게 진행되어 3월에 발급받았습니다. 함께 기도해주셔서 감사드립니다! 이곳에서 하나님께서 저희에게 맡기신 사역을 계속할 수 있어서 감사할 따름입니다.

여러분, 메리 크리스마스!

세계 곳곳에 있는 사랑하는 형제 자매님들께,

2018년 한해는 저희에게 여러모로 주님의 승리가 있는 해였습니다. 하늘에 계신 아버지의 은혜 덕입니다. 여러분의 기도와 후원이 있었기에 이 모든 것이 가능했었고, 그래서 이를 어찌 다 감사드려야 할지 모르겠습니다. 일단 주님의 말씀으로 격려 전해 드리고 싶네요. “또 누구든지 제자의 이름으로 이 작은 자 중 하나에게 냉수 한 그릇이라도 주는 자는 내가 진실로 너희에게 이르노니 그 사람이 결단코 상을 잃지 아니하리라 하시니라” – 예수님 (마태복음 10:42)

가족 이야기

이번 성탄절은 저희 아이들 중 유강이와 혜진이 둘 다 없이 지내는 첫 번째 성탄절입니다. 얘네들이 너무 보고 싶지만, 다들 주님 안에서 잘 지내주어서 감사하고, 유진이는 아직 저희가 데리고 있어서 감사합니다!

Kevin, New York

Hyejin, Colorado

Yujin, Ireland

Merry Christmas To You All!

Dear friends and families around the globe,

2018 has been a victorious year as a family in many ways by the grace of our Heavenly Father, and we can’t thank you enough for all your support and prayers that have been enabling us to walk through it all. And here is an encouragement from the Lord for you: “And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded.” – Jesus (Matthew 10:42)

Family Briefs

This is our first Christmas time as a family without two of our children, Kevin and Hyejin. We miss them terribly, but are happy that they are doing well in the Lord and we still have Yujin with us!

Kevin, New York

Hyejin, Colorado

Yujin, Ireland

2018 Fall Newsletter

Dear friends and families, 

Hope and pray you are all well in the Lord! It’s been a while again, and I’ve got a lot to bring you up to date, but will try not to dump too much on you. I’ll, of course, share more, if you personally contact me, though. 🙂 

The India trip back in April was successful. My teaching went very well for their training course, and it was good to be back in India after many years to see my old friends. Thank you for all your support and prayers! They wanted me to come back next year not only to teach again for the next school, but also to set up and run a whole new training course for them. What a blessing and an opportunity to serve them to reach further among the unreached, because the new training course is all about training and launching new missionaries into the most critical areas in the world!