Faith & Life

Gospel Trumpet Call Resounds in Patna, India, beyond Nepal

The sound of the gospel trumpet blown from Nepal has crossed its border and is resounding powerfully in its neighboring countries like Bhutan and India, and even in the Middle East. Among the Nepalese brothers and sisters who are carrying…

Short-Term Mission Team to Patna, India

From Persecution to Blessing

The brothers and sisters participated in the preaching festival with one accord even in the scorching heat and the glowing sun that could peel their skin off. Their fragrance of Zion spread all over North India. I want to share…

The Church of God in Shillong, India

A Special Supper

An American photographer asked fifty amazing chefs what they would eat for their final meal on earth. Most of them picked simple foods such as doughnuts, chicken, fried eggs, and burgers instead of the highest quality food that they make.…

Despite More Than Seven Hundred Failures

In the 1900s, there was a man who was dreaming of being a writer. While working various clerical and sales jobs, he wrote whenever he had time and submitted his writing to a publishing company whenever he completed one. However,…

Mom’s Letter

“Mom, it’s me. What are you doing?” “Uh, I’m doing my homework.” “What is it?” “Writing three times what I wrote wrong on my spelling test.” “Mom, don’t write more than three times. I’m afraid it might tire you.” “Well,…

Hwang Ju-hui from Suwon, South Korea

A Doctor Who Insisted on Washing Hands

In the 19th century, the mortality rate from childbed fever was high in Europe. Childbed fever was fever due to an infection in a cut made during childbirth. Since they didn’t have much knowledge on germs, childbed fever was an…

A Mother’s Earnest Request

In the time of Joseon Dynasty, there was a servant boy in the house of an official who was in charge of finances of the country. Although the boy grew up with poverty under the care of a single mother,…

The Virtuous Cycle of Love

The brothers and sisters gathered in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, for a street cleanup. Although it was a rainy season, it was sunny that day as if even the sky was cheering for us. Thanks to the weather, the…

Jeong Min-ji from Busan, South Korea

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…