Faith & Life

My Mom Reborn as the Youth like the Dew of the Dawn

Mom hated me to go to church. When I visited her and tried to preach the truth to her even a little, she quickly pushed me to go home. When I preached to her over the phone, she hung up…

Yim Su-jeong from Gwangju, South Korea

Mom’s Baby Book

In the days of my puberty, a war of nerves with Mom was my daily routine. As usual, I was scolded by Mom and banged the door, entering the room. I murmured that I would never talk with her anymore…

Kim Hyeon-ji from Uijeongbu, South Korea

Grit Score

At Harvard University, they had a study on 130 students. They designed a study and asked students to run for up to five minutes on a treadmill with the maximum speed set. Running was over just in few minutes, but…

Human Body, the Greatest Gift

A single car has about 25,000 parts, and a Boeing 747 has over 45 million parts. Then, what about the human body? Our body has about 10 trillion cellular tissues, 25 trillion red blood cells, and 25 billion white blood…

If You Desire Eagerly . . .

“. . . If you want to do something, desire it eagerly.” I had spent a long time as a fruitless branch although I had always fed on the nourishing sap from God who is the vine. I wanted to…

Ji-ye Lee from Daegu, South Korea

Eye

Starting a few years ago, my left eye looked blurry as if there was a fog. The same symptom started on my right eye also. I wore glasses, thinking it might be presbyopia, but I still felt frustrated. I went…

Choi Yong-gyu from Seoul, South Korea

Wrong and Different

8 What is it? It looks like a driving course to a traffic manager. It is a code to those who work with equipment. It is the number eight or the infinity symbol to a mathematician. Everybody is right. Nobody…

The Goodness of a Person Spreads

I believe everyone has ever, at least once, been attracted on the street to sweet smell of new bread wafting through the air. This smell of bread does not only stimulate people’s appetite but also make people kinder. The researchers…

Power of Unity: Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle

The members of the Church of God in Cape Town carried out a cleanup campaign. We were organized into four groups to meticulously clean up each allocated area. When the time to finish the cleanup came, all the members gathered.…

The Church of God in Cape Town, South Africa

Parental Love

I always thought my son was a little kid, but he is already a lot taller than I am now. It’s still vivid when he was a lovely little kid whom I could embrace, but now I can be embraced…

Jo Eun-jin from Changwon, South Korea

Wind Chill Temperature

There are two ways to know the temperature: the actual temperature measured by the thermometer and the wind chill temperature felt by the body. The wind chill temperature is produced on the basis of wind strength, humidity, and solar heat…

Adhesive Bandages for His Loving Wife

Newlywed Earle Dickson had one concern; it’s about his careless wife. She often cut herself or got burns on her fingers while cooking. At that time, as he was working in a company producing surgical tape, he could treat his…

According to What You Have Done

No one idles away his days, not doing any work. When a man is born, work devours him until his last breath on earth. Even people who seem to do nothing, they eat, sleep, and think. While all people are…

Fast Alone? Together Though Taking Time

There is a sister whose faith grew so much around the time of the Passover. She participated in preaching with great joy that members around her were energized. One day, I preached the Passover to a passerby with the sister.…

Incheon, South Korea

Allelopathy in Plants

When herbs are waving in the wind or you touch them with your hand, they give off a strong scent people like. Actually, however, the release of their scent is a way of protecting themselves against external aggression. Caterpillars feed…

The Best Energy from Mother

There is a friend of mine; we’ve been friends since the third year of the middle school. While getting along well with her, I always thought she is really nice; she considers others all the time, which makes me reflect…

Ansan, South Korea

To Spin a Pinwheel

“Dad, look at this pinwheel I made.” “Wow, it’s nice! Shall we try it and see how well it works?” Dad took his son’s hand and went to the nearby park. Excited, the son stretched his arm high and waited…

The Greatest Doctor

During the Warring States period in ancient China, there was a famous doctor named Bian Que. His two older brothers were also doctors, but they were less famous than Bian Que. One day, the king of Wei asked Bian Que,…

Where Life Sprouts

To preserve the environment, 28,000 trees were planted throughout the Gunpowder Valley watershed in Maryland. However, the trees need to be continually monitored and maintained for the first three to five years of their life. So, our Baltimore Zion members…

Melissa Hutchins from Baltimore, MD, U.S.

Laughter Defeats Even Cancer

Do you know we have special forces in our body? They are natural killer cells(also known as NK cells). Viruses or germs that get into the body from the outside can be destroyed by antibodies. However, cancer cells are an…