Faith & Life

Even Small Defects

During harvest season every year, our Zion members give a helping hand to short-handed farmers. This time, we visited an orchard in Eoreumgol Valley, Miryang, Korea, in order to help with sorting apples. Eoreumgol Valley located on halfway up the…

Lee Yeong-jin from Busan, South Korea

Between Determination and Action

“I will not eat at night anymore, starting tomorrow.” “I will read at least for an hour every day from next week.” “I will start working out from next month.” Sometimes we make a resolution to do something, but we…

A Great Meal

Physicist Einstein was very poor when he was young. Because he couldn’t afford to only study, he worked in the daytime and taught students after work; he often only had a piece of bread and water for a meal. One…

How to Survive in the Jungle

In one jungle in Zimbabwe, a baby elephant fell backwards as it fell into a puddle. The mother elephant tried its hardest to help its baby elephant up, but it couldn’t. The baby elephant kept losing its strength, and lions…

Say “Thanks to You” instead of “Because of You”

Both “because of you” and “thanks to you” tell the cause-and-effect relationship. However, their meanings are diametrically opposite. “Because of you” has a negative connotation like blaming someone, but “thanks to you” has a positive connotation like having a thankful…

Do Not Give up to the End

At the end of 2018, we received an abundant blessing of the Holy Spirit through the New Jerusalem Preaching Festival, and went on a short-term mission to Kobe in Japan in the beginning of New Year. On the first day…

Short-Term Mission Team to Kobe, Japan

What Is Important to My Mom

When I came back home from meeting my friends on a Sunday evening, my mother had several layers of bandages on her pinky finger. “Mom, what happened to your finger?” “I got a little cut while doing something.” Glancing at…

Lee Sun-mi from Seoul, South Korea

One Step Before Success

A successful businessman had a time to talk about how he was able to lead his business to success. One journalist there asked the businessman for an interview and asked him to give him each answer in one sentence. “What…

A Father and His Son

This happened during the 400 m semi-final at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. At the sound of a starting pistol, breaking the silence, eight sprinters started running as fast as they could. Some 65,000 spectators had their eyes…

Brotherly Unity in Zion

In the region of Bakaiya in Hetauda, Nepal, there are two towns—one for Tamang people and the other for Majhi people. Until the two towns were formed, the two ethnic groups had been in conflict with each other since centuries…

Kiran Gautam from Hetauda, Nepal

In the Lowest Part of the Body

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” This is a quote from Leonardo da Vinci, who had a profound knowledge of anatomy. Why did he praise the foot as a masterpiece? The foot is…

A Man Looking Around a Museum in a Squatting Position

A man visited a museum. He looked very gentle, but his behavior was a little weird. He was looking around in a squatting position. He would stand up every once in a while to take a break, but then he…

Different Personalities? No Problem!

“Whose personality did she get?” “I can’t understand my co-worker,” “He must be from a different dimensional world,” “We’ve decided to split because of our too different personalities,” . . . The most common and prominent cause that damages the…

Where We Are Headed Is the Starting Point

I went on a long-term mission to a region I had been to on a short-term mission previously. I was busy, taking care of the members I had led to Zion before, and as a result, I didn’t have time…

Choi Su-hyeon from Seoul, South Korea

Watering Holes That Never Dry

Kenya, the animal kingdom, is suffering from severe drought due to global warming. The animals in Tsavo West National Park, such as elephants, buffalos, antelopes and zebras, were in danger of dying for being unable to drink water. But then…

Happy Cooking Time

On a national holiday during the year when I became a middle school student, I made up my mind to help my mom a little as she was busy cooking. First of all, I followed her to a grocery store…

Mun Gahng-san from Yongin, South Korea

Restored Confidence

In August, 2008, listeria, one of food poisoning bugs, was found in a food product of a food company in Canada. This resulted in over 20 deaths and tens of people were taken to the hospital. At this critical moment…

The Right Function of Weak Points

It’s been a long time since machines replaced humans for many types of work. Now, it seems that humanoid robots will work with humans as their co-workers soon. One research team of the University of Salzburg did a research from…

Grapes That Have Lost Their Value

In the early spring of 1989, a woman was looking at grapes at the food hall in a department store. One employee, who had been watching her, came up to her and asked her if she needed some help. Then…

Like My Family’s Business

The rainy season was particularly long two years ago. After the rainy season was over, I thought the flood victims would ease themselves by looking at the clear sky above, but they didn’t seem to at all. In the cities…

Gu Yeon-hui from Suncheon, South Korea