Faith & Life

Redwoods’ Way of Survival

Redwood National and State Parks in California, U.S., is like a forest where giants live. It’s because redwoods, the tallest trees in the world, inhabit in the parks. Redwoods boast of their height; they are as tall as a 30-story…

Searching for Pearls in the Sand with a Thankful Heart

I was exhausted while working after graduating from university. To regain my strength, I participated in a short-term mission, and then started the overseas mission in earnest. The country I chose to do my overseas mission was India which is…

Yu Hui-jin from Gwangju, South Korea

Qualities of a Mature Adult

A full-grown person is called an adult. When you become an adult, you need to be mature. What does it mean to be an adult? One writer said that only those who have fulfilled their duties as adults are true…

A Happy Family Made with Care

My husband who works in a construction site, my daughter studying in the lab, and I are living together. My husband and daughter are so busy that it is difficult for us all to get together. However, since I diligently…

Kim Eun-suk from Seoul, South Korea

Children of Heaven

A boy goes to repair his little sister’s shoes, but he loses them on his way back. His sister, who lost her only shoes, was very disappointed. The boy knows that his parents cannot afford to buy new shoes but…

Calling

A college in the U.S. made a research on the relationship between career and happiness among people working in the same industry. They divided them into two groups—those who took their career as a calling and those as a means…

Compliment & Criticism

Which one do you make more, compliments or criticism? A research team at Duke University in the United States revealed that the human brain treats compliments and criticism in different ways in different parts. Negative things like criticism are handled…

On Earth Day

On April 22, 2018, since it was Earth Day, the ASEZ Church of God University Student Volunteer Group carried out a street cleanup in our efforts for a cleaner community. Early in the morning, about eighty volunteers gathered at Suitland…

Florencia Riquelme from Washington D.C., U.S.

Giving Love than to Receive

A renowned American columnist wrote an article about the powerful traits of successful leaders during World War II. Based on research on the traits of those who rose to the position of officers in the military, there was a distinguishing…

Let’s Play ‘The Glad Game’

Pollyanna, the major character in the American novel Pollyanna published in 1913, is a very positive character who finds joy anytime, anywhere, and in any matter. For example, when she came to live in the attic with no window curtains,…

Not a Loss but a Lesson

An employee in a small company that is responsible for product supply to a large company made a mistake and defects were found in the product. The company suffered tremendous losses, and the employee who caused it could not fall…

Only God Makes Things Grow

One Sabbath morning, I received a text message from a sister in New York. “Maria got baptized!” The moment I checked my text message, I was overwhelmed, remembering vividly what happened a year ago. About a year ago, I went…

Kim Seon-ju from Baltimore, MD, U.S.

Could You Patent the Sun?

By the mid-1950s, polio was as scary as an atomic bomb. In the United States alone, more than 40,000 people died or became disabled due to polio, and there were about 500,000 victims around the world every year. It is…

A Kid Who Cannot See the Stars

The sound of kids’ laughter never ceased in a vacant lot in my neighborhood. Kids played there, forgetting about their hunger, and whenever it became dark, they gathered to count stars and look for constellations. Everybody enjoyed it except for…

Jang Hui-won from Seongnam, South Korea

Net Preparing

Net is a tool for catching fish. Before sailing, a fisherman prepares his fishing net. Net gets entangled after fishing and he have to arrange it to use it again. If he leaves it alone and just throws it into…

Meeting the True God

I was raised by my grandparents who were missionaries. Naturally, my life was filled with the faith in God. Jesus Christ was the hero of my life and I thought that I could do nothing without Him. I believed that…

Neeru Patricia Berry from Chala, Vapi, GJ, India

Two Important Days

A speaker asked the audience at a lecture hall. “There are two most important days in your life. When do you think they are?” The audience gave various answers such as “the day when I was born,” “the day when…

Tree Planting

Micro dust today is causing a big problem in all seasons. While the debate on how to resolve the problem is ongoing, environmental experts came up with a sure and easy solution—tree planting. A few years ago, Korea Forest Research…

Language Etiquette Begins at Home

There is joke that if you say, “I’m a boy,” with a wry look and in an aggressive tone, you mean that “I’m a bad boy”; and if you say, “I’m a boy,” with a smile and in a soft…

Without Knowing the Value

There are about 350,000 species of plants on the earth. Among them, only about 3,000 species are cultivated for food. The edible plants are less than 1% of all. Grasses have their own names and characteristics, but before they are…