Faith & Life

Like a Diamond

Diamond is considered to be the emperor of gemstones and the hardest natural mineral on earth. It’s composed of carbon just like graphite that becomes a material of pencils and charcoal. Although diamond and graphite are made entirely out of…

Make a Family Time Capsule

What plans did you make with your family around this time last year? In the New Year, we make many plans to spend the year more fruitfully. As time passes, however, it tends to end in smoke unlike the first…

Walking with God

I spent the summer of 2017 in Fukuoka, Japan, and in January of the following year, I participated in the overseas mission for a month in Japan again. This time, it was in Yokohama. Before departure, I was excited, wondering…

Do Seong-yeong from Tongyeong, South Korea

Rejoicing in His Salvation

Let’s say, you were on the brink of death but get saved by someone’s help. You cannot help but rejoice at the relief that your one and only life was saved. At the same time you will be thankful towards…

The Church That Is Good at Volunteer Activities

On an autumn day, we had a cleanup at Yeongrang Beach in Sokcho. Our voluntary service was postponed a couple of times because of the typhoon and tidal waves, but that day, the weather was fresh with a cool breeze.…

Tak Jeong-sun from Sokcho, South Korea

Bronco and Donkey

Broncos were once a symbol of the vast American western region. A bronco is a wild and rough horse, so if a person rides on or burdens it with a load, it jumps up and down. So, when people used…

Mother’s Mind

My sister is one year older than me. Since we are similar in age, we often squabbled like friends. On all such occasions, however, my parents scolded me. I couldn’t accept their minds no matter how well they treated me…

Choi Eun-hye from Incheon, South Korea

Walking with God

Have you ever been disappointed because the scenery of a famous tourist attraction was not as good as you had expected and the surrounding facilities were also poor? Nevertheless, if your trip still remains as a pleasant memory, it is…

Mother Answers Even the Smallest Prayers

One day, about five months after I had my first child, I lied down to get some sleep. Then suddenly a thought came into my mind and kept me from falling asleep. ‘What happens when I die?’ I had no…

Kim Gyeong-suk from Osan, South Korea

Stopped Tennis Game

In September, 2016, the game was abruptly stopped during the tennis match in Mallorca, Spain. Tennis superstar Rafael Nadal stopped a match at the voice of a mother finding her missing child. As he looked up to the audience and…

Words

“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Eph 4:29 “Let your conversation be always full of…

Brotherly Love Is the Best Filial Piety for the Parents

Yi Seong-gye established Joseon Dynasty in Korea and became the first king called King Taejo. His fifth son, Yi Bang-won, was very ambitious. As one of his half-brothers became the crown prince, Yi Bang-won got furious and killed the half-brother…

To the Kid Who Will Have My Brother’s Heart

In March 2016, an 11-year-old child named Eric was killed in a car accident in the United States. His family was in deep sorrow and anger, but decided to forgive the driver and to donate Eric’s organs for the life…

Heavenly Mother’s Pain and Sacrifice I Understood in Ireland

I would like to share what I realized while walking the path of the gospel for eight months in Dublin, Ireland, a few years ago. Ireland, located in the northeastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean, is highly influenced by…

Choi Nan-young from Cheongju, South Korea

What God Has Given Us

The backcountry explorers say the most difficult time of the day is wake up time in the morning. When they hear tempestuous wind blowing outside, lying inside the tent, they are scared and this makes it hard for them to…

Sending My Child to a Foreign Country

Not long ago, my daughter in the sixth grade went abroad for a history visit, a program supported by the Education Office. She was given the opportunity to take a flight for the first time in her life. On the…

Ma Eun-hui from Yeosu, South Korea

Discard Stereotypes

Let me give you an interesting game. Draw four straight lines without taking your hand off and try to connect all nine dots below. Did you succeed? Here’s the answer for those who have absolutely no idea how to solve…

Resolution

A French sport shooter Véronique Girardet was blinded in one eye by cancer at the age of two. She was introduced to shooting by her father when she was sixteen. She has been crowned world champion four times. She revealed…

Nanny, King’s Another Mother

The prince of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea was raised by a nanny. The queen, who had to take on her role as the mother of the kingdom, could not concentrate only on childcare, and it was too much to…

Filling Emptiness Caused by the Absence of Mother with Care and Love

On a hot summer day, around fifty brothers and sisters from the Gangneung Zion volunteered to clean the place of a young man who has an intellectual disability. He was living alone since his mother had died. His home was…

Hong Sun-tae from Gangneung, South Korea