오랫동안 은혜한인교회 EM High School 사역자로 있다가 주님의 뜻 가운데 하와이 YWAM에서 선교 사역을 위해 DTS 훈련을 끝내고 현재는 YWAM Staff로 섬기고 있는 Pastor John을 생각하면서 슬라이드쇼를 만들어 보았습니다. Pastor John을 통해 양육된 많은 G12 리더들이 지금 중등부 고등부 대학부의 여러곳에서 리더로 활동하는것을 볼 때 참으로 감사하고 또 자랑스러울 따릅입니다. 귀한 사역자 Pastor John 부부를 위해 많이 기도해 주시기 바랍니다.
Pastor John과 Joyce 사모의 최근 소식과 사역은 아래 Blog에 자세히 나와 있습니다.
Aug 3 |
Hello JSN! I'm so encouraged by the blog and the newsletters that you have been writing. You have always been so supportive and willing to understand the 2nd Gen and I just want to say thank you and that I truly miss you.
I know It has been a year since we have left but you and all the students are still in my heart...
I don't think I have truly thanked you enough for everything you have done for us while we were at gkc...
Thank you.
Love,
Joyce & I are so blessed to be featured in the YWAM Magazine. Thank you so much for your love & support. Without you guys we could not do what we're doing.
God is raising up a new breed of young people around the world! John and Joyce Kim, a Korean/American couple, are an example of this in YWAM’s prayer and worship ministry at U of N Kona. Joyce grew up being taught about Jesus by her Korean mother and lived in between California and South Korea throughout her childhood and teen years with her parents. At 19 years old she encountered the Holy Spirit at a retreat in California and her life was changed. After this encounter she felt called to a lifetime of intercession and intimacy with the Lord. John wasn’t raised in a Christian household, but he encountered God at 15 years old while at a church retreat in Florida where he lived. He knew shortly after that he was called to be a pastor and to missions around the world. John went to Bible College and then felt led to move to California where he became the youth pastor at a large Korean/American church. This is where he met Joyce and they eventually married in February of 2008, thus joining their passions for the prayer and missions movements as one. After being married for five months, the Kims led a group to Myanmar to help in relief work after the 2008 cyclone that devastated the nation. During this time, John remembered a vow he had made to God when he was a senior in high school. After reading “Making Jesus Lord,” by Loren Cunningham his life was so impacted, that he made a vow to God that he would spend the first year of his married life on a YWAM DTS. John suddenly realized that he and his new wife Joyce only had seven months left to fulfill this vow. Immediately he told Joyce of the vow and she agreed they needed to honor it. In faith and prayer, they decided after returning from their trip to Myanmar to resign from their positions in their church. They sold their belongings and cars, applied for DTS in Kona, Hawaii, and bought two one way airline tickets all in a matter of a month. The Asia Pacific DTS was set to start in September of 2008, but the Kims had yet to be accepted officially into the school. In faith, they traveled to Hawaii. With only a few days before the DTS was set to start, they got a phone call that a couple had dropped out and they had been accepted! “DTS was such a growing experience for us,” said John. “We went to Singapore and Malaysia on our outreach. Then returned from outreach in February of 2009, just in time to celebrate our one year wedding anniversary and the completion of the vow I had made to God.” Since their DTS, John and Joyce have served as worship and prayer full-time staff at the in Kona. “Our heart is for the 10/40 window!” the couple explained enthusiastically. Their plans include traveling to China and working with the “Back to Jerusalem Movement”. They will also work with Call2All by helping the next generation of youth engage in prayer and missions around the world. Mark Anderson, President of Call2All, describes the couple as, “A great example of the new breed of missionaries the Lord is raising up around the world.” |
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