Faith & Life

Why Do Baseball Managers Wear Their Teams’ Uniforms?

Soccer, basketball, volleyball, and handball coaches usually wear suits when their teams are in the game. However, baseball managers and coaches wear their teams’ uniforms with the uniform numbers. The tradition of their wearing uniforms dates back to the early…

Kindness That Changed a Robber’s Mind

It happened in New York, U.S. A young social worker ran into a robber in a lonesome place on his way home from work. The robber with a knife was a teenager. He was startled for a moment, but he…

Remove Greed, You’ll Be Filled With Happiness

On the New Year’s Day, people give all different answers about their wishes for the New Year, but their ultimate wish is all the same: It is to live a happy life. The criteria of happiness vary depending on people.…

Resonator

Musical instruments that make beautiful sounds! Their material, shape, and way to be handled are different, but they all have something in common: Their inside is empty. The empty part is called a resonator which enables the instruments to produce…

Tears of a Prodigal Child

Before I entered high school, I was led to the Church of God by my cousin, and I started attending the Church. My parents opposed my going there, but I liked Zion so much because there was a beautiful unity…

Hui-jeong Im from Namyangju, South Korea

A Heart That Goes Out to the Neighborhood

Jang Gye-hyang is another great mother in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea along with Shin Saimdang, the mother of famed scholar Yi I. Jang wrote recipes invented around the middle and late of the Joseon Dynasty in Hangul the Korean…

Mom and Strawberry

In my childhood, my family was very poor. When the six members of my family lay in a single room, we had no space to turn over. My parents leased farms from others to raise their four children. One day,…

Park Eun-ja from Gumi, South Korea

As the Children of Light

The darker it is, the brighter the moonlight seems. The brilliant shining moon in the night sky lights up the streets at night and works as a guide. The moon does not emit any light. However, the reason it seems…

Scar

There was an eagle, injured and hurt. The eagle thought he couldn’t fly higher anymore because of his wound. In grief, he no longer wanted to meet anyone. The head among the group of eagles was aware of this. He…

Tests

There are many accessories made of pure gold, which is not only beautiful but also has the characteristic that doesn’t change or get rusty over time. The value of pure gold has maintained since great antiquity. Pure gold refers to…

Giving Love in a Lunch Box

I am a young adult—a youth like the dew of the dawn with full of energy. But it sometimes puts me to shame and I feel sorry to people around me. At home, I just eat at the table that…

Lee Si-won from Seoul, South Korea

The Solution

On a newspaper column for suggesting solutions to readers' problems, one teenager shared his personal problem. “My mom nags at me all day long. She tells me to wash my hands when I come home, do my homework on time,…

Become a Hidden Assistant of Your Family!

How will you feel if someone cares about you, pleases you, and is willing to help you when you have a hard time? You will be happy, encouraged, and reassured as well. You know that? You already have that person.…

Good Deeds Open People’s Hearts

We, the Wolpi Church in Ansan, clean up streets every month. Since we don’t carry out volunteer services in a cursory way, residents, store owners, and street cleaners near the church compliment us. This time, we cleaned up Seongpo Art…

Yu Hui-sun from Ansan, South Korea

Enjoying Happiness & Recalling Happiness

Throughout our school days, we have many worries about friends, schoolwork, and future. But adults who have lived through those days say, “Now is the best time for you,” to students. Mothers who are concentrating on childcare after childbirth feel…

Parents’ Concern

As I stay in Russia away from home, I send pictures of myself to show my parents how I’m doing. It was on a day when it hailed for the first time last winter. A shower of hail looked marvelous.…

Kang Yo-na from Chelyabinsk, Russia

Giving Thanks in All Circumstances

Dario Silva, who used to be a representative football player in Uruguay, lost his right leg in a car accident in 2006. Hearing the news, many people felt sorry for him, but he surprised people by saying unexpected words. He…

Something That You Know When You Do It

My parents died when I was young and I had to earn a living. So, my life was literally like a war and the world was like a battle field. In order not to get left behind in the cold-hearted…

Ahn Byeong-chan from Seoul, South Korea

A Brilliant Challenge

Bobsleigh is a winter Olympic sport in which two or four teammates steer, running fast down narrow, twisting, banked, and iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. Before, it was a sport for well-off classes because it costs a lot of…

You Can Do It Too

Jim Abbott is known as an American pitcher who overcame his limitations in Major League Baseball. He was born with a disability in his right hand. Abbott grew up, getting used to doing things with one hand, but there was…