Title: The Truth of Faith
failure of faith.
Hebrews 11:1-3.
I loved going to church when I was young. Of course, I never missed Sunday worship, and even when I was young, I used to attend Sunday evening services. Our house was inside the school because my father worked at the school. It was terrifying to go home through the dark playground on New Year's Eve. So every time I passed the playground last night, I used to sing hymns out loud.
The hymn that I sang earnestly at that time was a hymn that was not suitable for a young child at all, 'Lord, lead me because I do not know where I am going'.
That hymn I sang as a child became the blessing of my life. Because the hymn became a prayer, and that prayer was answered in my life as it is.
In this presbytery, it has been decided that the High Meaning Church of the High Meaning will be split into one institution with the four churches. The dissolution of the High Will Sungui Church and the separation of the four high-will churches and institutions into one is probably the biggest and most dramatic event of my life. It was difficult to find examples, and it was difficult to judge and decide easily because it seemed that the end of the matter was in a deep fog. It was this time that the presbytery legally dealt with it, but as you all know, in reality, it has been 16 months since the separation of the church. The path I didn't know, the path I just trusted was right. It's like hitting a full-run homer.
One of the first things I did when I started the High Meaning Sungui Church was to serve Vietnam with my first Christmas offering. At that time, it was possible to build a house for about 500,000 won (it was a better house than I thought when I went to see it). The church had only been opened for three months. One of the church members donated $100,000 to build a fairly large building in Vietnam.
And every year a medical missionary team went and started treating them. Many people use the Chuseok holiday to provide medical treatment, as many people joke that they will have to fly a chartered plane this year. There are many medical professors in our church, and they use portable ultrasound machines and portable dental machines to treat about 2,000 people at a time.
Vietnam has a poor perception of Korea and Christianity because of the Vietnam War. This is because the United States, which was their main enemy, was a Christian country, and Korea was an ally of that United States. However, the continued service year after year changed the perception in the area. The missionary leading the ministry received a commendation close to a medal from the Vietnamese government. I got a request from the locals to build a church there. We didn't say that we would build a church, but the locals asked to build a church on their own. You don't know how happy I am. The perception of Korea and our Christianity has changed. I have plans to build a church and a hospital there. In particular, we have the idea to invite doctors from there to Korea, train them at a Korean university hospital, and send them to the hospital so that high-quality treatment is possible even in peacetime. You may be able to serve them by sending a retired specialist as a missionary.
The first Easter offering was used for the Koreans in Russia. During the Stalin era, the Koreans who were taken to Siberia without knowing the reason were brought to Siberia and survived there too.