Faith & Life

Only If We Preach Boldly

I work in a dental college hospital. To display God’s glory at my workplace through good deeds, I tried to be faithful to my work at every moment and tried to look vibrant even when I was tired. Meanwhile, there…

Seoul, South Korea

“I Like Being a Mom!”

The day before my college graduation, I started to look for what was needed for the graduation like where the ceremony would be held and until what time I had to be there. Just in time, Mom asked me about…

Seoul, South Korea

Like a Bolt Out of the Blue

I was busy arranging the kitchen till late at night because my family was planning to move out. Cleaning the refrigerator as a last chore, I opened a plastic bottle to see what was inside. At that moment, the contents…

Seoul, South Korea

Family

In this weary life, I was looking for a place to lean on. One day, my younger sister visited me and recommended me to attend the Church of God. It was the church that I went with her at the…

Hongcheon, South Korea

The Blessing of Forgetting

The car keys you have been searching for are in your hand; the cell phone you lost rings in the drawer; the remote control you lost is found in the fridge. You have probably had one of these experiences due…

Unchanging Seeds

You may think that if you sow a sweet persimmon seed it will produce the same sweet persimmon. In reality, if you sow a sweet persimmon seed, it produces wild persimmons. If you sow an apple seed, the apples produced…

Call Your Family with a Voice Full of Love

How many times do you call your family members a day? If you can call someone and have someone who calls you, it is a joyful thing. Calling is to seek. This means that we are not alone but are…

God Leads My Way

I was troubled many times with lots of concerns when I was about to carry out a plan. Nevertheless, I prayed to God only when I was desperate. I got sobered, however, when I realized that it was not my…

Hyderabad, India, Ryu Gi-bok

The Tears of the Cauldron

In the old days, Korean mothers made a furnace-fire and cooked rice with a cauldron. Just as building a house, sewing a dress, or writing a paper requires much effort, making rice with a cauldron is not easy, either. It…

Creation of the Heavens and the Earth, Brilliant Craftsmanship

Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for four years. One of the famous pieces of the ceiling is called The Creation of Adam. To complete it, he had to raise his arms all day, and no matter how…

Tenacity

The Tarahumara in Mexico are renowned for their running ability. They call themselves “Rarámuri” (running people). To them, running a full marathon in a day is not a challenge. When hunting a deer, the Tarahumara chase after it. A deer…

Removing Stains

I’d like to share what I’ve realized while painting the Libreville Church in Gabon. We paint our Zion building every dry season. Since we cannot do it in the rainy season even though we want to, we have to paint…

Libreville, Gabon, Lee Jeong-ho

Making Pittu

When there is a gathering for the male adult group in Zion, I prepare meals, selecting a dish among the menu they like. Although they are exhausted after working all day, they come to church right after work to study…

Colombo, Sri Lanka, Baek So-hyeon

Clean Lima, Shining Peru

On August 19, 2018, ASEZ the World Mission Society Church of God University Student Volunteer Group and about five hundred Peruvian members cleaned up around the Carpayo Beach, located in Callao, a chief seaport of Peru, where there was a…

Busan, South Korea, Gwon Ok-jin

Overcoming with Positive Thoughts and Attitudes

When people are sick, they usually hunch over, thinking they will find comfort and relief. However, research shows that sitting upright is more effective in overcoming pain than hunching over. The reasons are as follows: First, when you sit upright…

Conflict, an Opportunity for Everyone to Become a Winner!

Nowadays, crimes occur among family members very frequently in our society. A lack of communication makes even the members, whom you should love and care most, the objects of crime. Long-term conflicts deepen emotional confrontation and may cause a drastic…

Preaching to Seven Billion with the Spirit of Ubuntu

Twenty-six members from the L.A. Church and its nearby branch churches in the U.S. formed two teams and planned short-term missions in Uganda and Rwanda. Uganda is located in the inland area in the eastern part of Africa, and Rwanda…

Short-term Mission Team to Kampala in Uganda & Kigali in Rwanda

Mission Trip with Blessings Granted to the Early Church

Argentina, the second largest country in South America! The distance from the end of the north to the end of the south is nearly 3,700 km [2,300 miles]. Because it is so large, each area has different temperatures. The northern…

Short-term Mission Team to Buenos Aires, Argentina

Finding Brothers and Sisters Who Are Filled with the Fervor for the Truth

The State of Arunachal Pradesh in India is located 1,100 km [680 miles] east of Damak, Nepal. Its majority is the Mishmu tribe who has been living there since long ago. You may feel like you are in a different…

Damak, Nepal

Be Conscious of God

In mid-November, the Namibia Zion in Africa planned a three-day short-term mission trip. The place we went to was Swakopmund, the second largest city in Namibia. Although we had our jobs and studies, we willingly volunteered for the mission. Those…

Short-Term Mission Team to Swakopmund, Namibia